Show LOCAL AUTHORS HAVE OPERA PERA ALMOST READY Cast for lor The Sphinx l Ij h Heine Selected mul Will VIII Include A Well Veil Known Salt bait Luke Lake People Tho The Sphinx the new opera b by Prof J. J J. J McClellan and Briant S. S Young L Id b almost completed and rehearsals will begin about tho tile middle of ot June The Tho cast east Is now being baing selected and will In Include In- In clude elude some of ot the best known local people There Thero aro are parts part for tor twelve principal characters character and the tho chorus will number forty As the production will vilL occur during the week of ot the tho G. G A. A R. R encampment en en- special patriotic features art are being prepared and ono one night wl l bo set apart as ns G G. G A. A R. R night and invitations In will be bo extended to Gen Con Nevius Col Sterrett and staff start and If It President Taft Tatt Is IB hero by that time a box will bo bu tendered to him The Tho Colonial theater whore where the performance will bo he given will be bo elaborately decorated In th thuu J national colors and as the op opera opra ra especially especially espe espe- I In the tho finale has decidedly a-decidedly patriotic pa pa- atmosphere the demonstration will doubtless be bo inspiring The Tho management has been placed In the hands of ot John D. D Giles Cues and the preliminary arran arrangements have ha all been made Mr Giles Gibe has been given orders to p ut rut on tho the best production ever accorded a n. local company and as there Is amplo financial backing already assured the tile task of at c tnt th H T. T tho the Immense production on will be besh bo pushed sh d with vigor Igor The Sphinx will run the entire week of the en encampment with the usual matinees |