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Show Dixie College Opera ' To Highlight Music Day of Arts Festival Highlighting the day assigned to the field of Music for the Dixie College Art Festival will be "The Gondoliers", a two-act opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and pronounced pro-nounced one of the outstanding productions. This will be presented pre-sented under direction of Jos. W. McAllister, of the vocal department, depart-ment, assisted by Myrtle E. Henderson Hend-erson of -the speech department-and department-and Prof. Earl J. Bleak with his college orchestra. Following is the cast, all college students: The Duke of Plaza Toro, Talm-age Talm-age Christensen, Delta; Luiz, (his attendant) Bob Pendleton, Price; Don Alhambra del Bolero, the Grand Inquisitor, Rex McAllister; Marco, Polmieri, (Gondolier) , Laurel Abbott, Bunkerville; Gui-seppe Gui-seppe Palmieri (gondolier) Harold Higgins, Price; Antonio, Russell Hansen; Giorgio, Max Gentry; Guilia, Shirley Webb; Tessa, Noma Andrus, all of St. George; Annibale, Elmer Cox, RockviUe; Ottavia, Walter Church, LaVerk-in; LaVerk-in; The Dutchess, Maurine Gardner, Gard-ner, Pine Valley; Casilda, Viola Wohlgemuth, Milwaukee, Wis., Glanetta, Maxine Abbott, Bunkerville; Bunk-erville; Vittoria, Enid Bradshaw, Hurricane; and Inez, Rene Lyman, Blanding. There will also be a selected chorus of 60 voices. (I) The plot is concerned with the proxy marriage in infancy of Casilda Ca-silda beautiful daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Plaxa-Toro, to the infant son of the King of Barataria. Not wanting the Wes-leyan-Methodist faith, which the King has accepted, to prosper in Spain, Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor has the King's son stolen, and eventually his identity is lost, through the death from drinking of the Gondolier in whose charge he was entrusted, along with his own son. Both boys become gondoliers and make marriages, but the complications that follow are artfully untangled to bring the "happy ever after" ending for all concerned. |