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Show Double Hill Planned for Central Cily Drama Festival CENTRAL CITY. COLO. - The famed old opera house of this equally famed old mining town will have its gtamorous presentation gain In 1046. This announcement has been made by Frank Rlcket-son Rlcket-son Jr., president of the Central City Opera House association. A double bill Mozart's colorful, romantic "Abduction from the Seraglio" Se-raglio" and Verdi's wistful-dramatic "Travlata" - will mark the re- establishment of the Central City drama fcsUval, scheduled to open Saturday evening, July 6. The festival will continue tor three weeks and the presentation of the Mozart opus will fulnil a hope long held by the late Anne Evans, one of the founders of the festival, who Invested several thousand dollars dol-lars In having the "Abduction from the Seraglio," with Its Oriental intrigue, in-trigue, passion, romance, scored and translated Into a modern frame. The opening of the 1M6 festival promises to be as brilliant as that which witnessed the opening of the opera house. Period costumes will again prevail among the patrons who will arrive not only from cities and towns of Colorado but from all sections of the country if inquiries to the association headquarters may be regarded as an Index of interest |