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Show EUGENE FIELD'S OPERA NOW READY FOR STAGE. COLORADO SPRINGS. March 23. Ths arrival In this city of Eugene Field, Jr., and Fred Comstock Field, sons of the poet, has caused the announcement an-nouncement to be made that a comic opera from the pen of Kugene Field will be given a production in New York next fall. The production of "The Buccaneers, or the Begum of Piura." in three sets, has been arranged for. and the music is being written by a well-known composer of light operas. The manuscript, which had been forgotten, forgot-ten, lav burled among a file of old papers pertaining to Field's connection with the Denver Tribune until It wss seeldentally stumbled upon by ths poet s widow recently. re-cently. it Is stated that the widow wss offered JX00 for the manuscript, which covers sixty-five pages of closely written matter, but refused It, and for some time the manuscript hss been In ths hands of composers. com-posers. ' |