Show GREAT bill OFFERED AT IDES THIS WEEK the ides theater has booked an outstanding bill to be presented saturday and sunday the feature production Is ramon navarro in call of the flesh of which the following Is a brief synopsis juan a oung singer Is employed in the cantina de mariposa in seville and lives with old esteban onetime one time opera star who seeks to take him to madrid to be an opera star but juan does not study and prefers to philander with lola dancer at the cantina Cant lna who has fallen in love with him in the convent in seville is maria a novice who watches juan over the wall and falls in love with him one night she escapes from the convent and comes to him it Is a case of love at first sight juan resolves to go to madrid with esteban go into opera and marry maria they depart lola infuriated finds marias brother a captain in the army and tells him of the elopement the brother swearing revenge starts in pursuit esteban spends his small savings to get juan an audition he cannot really sing in opera yet one must know a broken heart first says the Impress ario then comes the girls brother he insists to juan that the girls soul will be lost if she is not returned to the convent juan resolves to sacrifice her lola comes in and he makes love to the dancer so that maria will see and leave him for her brother then his heart breaking he again sings in the opera his agony Is echoed in his song he becomes the idol of the opera but his heart la still with maria and she in the convent pines for juan lola comes to the realization that the separation Is killing them both and seeks the mother superior confessing her part in the affair and the two lovers are reunited |