Show love ove pirates of hawaii coming tho the fairyland of the twentieth Went leth century is in Ila hawaii wail th that at islo isle of dreamy days and shining nights where the sunshine is warm and caressing and the shadows are cooled with the freshness of the mighty sea fairies may dwell there or orges or pirates anything is possible and ogres agres there dwelling may turn into angels overnight or pirates may turn into cooks of all the things w winch I 1 aich may happen in ili hawaii the high school opera chooses tho the most harming charming to show to its audience on april eleventh at the south ward A chorus of hawaii girls singing praises of their island home begins the story of the opera tho the heroine doothy ridicules their la laziness iness and promises them excitement in tho the coming visit of her sweetheart the young linval lieutenant billy wood who is going to bring a couple of shipmates with him the girls are all delighted gut but miss Pr primer ioner the old mald maid school teacher stands in their way for slie she will not allow any young men to conic come to see bee the girls billy writes dorthy a letter and tells her that lie he is coming disguised asa as a college professor but he decides afterwards that st t would be a better plan to como come as pirates and capture tho the school lie he sends dorthy another letter to this effect but this letter falls into the hands of miss primer in the meant meantime mean t time line a band of real pirates 1 como come to the school on s some ome campaign while they fire are talking they see sec miss primer approaching and hide sand behind the trees whilo while misa ails primer reads the letter that was meant for dorthy the pirates pirated rusl ut and declare her their prisoner pris onci ss primer them to botho naval officer and Ns friends shows unexpected spirit sp irit and captures them instead condom ming them to servo serve in her kitchen as cooks the serving melody of the crooks cooks song which follows is one of the best things in tho the I 1 when billy woods arrives dressed as a pirate he explains to dorthy that his friends backed down at the last moment forc cing eing him to como coma alone this explanation is accomplished in a deight delightful ful duct between the leading soloists and a chorus of girls voices in which the girls are arc happy to meet billy and listen entranced enhanced to his pirate song put but the trance of all is too deep for safety no one notices the approach of the real pirates who capture dilly billy under directions of the valiant miss primer and carry him off into cap tivit Y the final of act 1 I 1 Is of sixty voices voices and leaves the audience anticipating with pleasure the choruses ducts and solos which untangle the plot in in act 11 II 11 billy escapes miss primer discovers that she has captured real pirates and the pirate chief falls falis incontinently an n lovo love with her tangle after tangle of interest keeps the stage alive with dancing and acting to enhance the music how everything comes out right and the lovers are united and the blagof the glorious united states finally k secures pence peace and happiness on and is said and sung before the drops and the audience is ft ealoha oe oc farewell to thee |