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Show ,1 , - f (J t V - f 1 v , t i ! Jims andi:kson Contraltos Will Sing Lead Roles In USACOpsra Three prominent contraltos at - Utah State Agricultural college will portray the role of Queen in the forthcoming opera, "The Bohemian Bo-hemian Girl," to be presented by the USAC music department on February 7, 8 and 9, under the : direction of Professor W. H. Manning, Man-ning, head of the vocal music department. de-partment. Appearing in the contralto lead will be Jean Sant, Clifton, Idaho; June Anderson of Corinne, and ; Bernice Christiansen of Logan. Ac- five in music circles on the cam-! cam-! pus and in Logan, Miss Sant is a junior in the school of arts and sciences. Miss Anderson and Miss Christiansen both are freshmen enrolled in education. The three contraltos will take the role of the gypsy queen, who is in love with Thaddeus, an exile ex-ile from Poland. Because Thaddeus Thad-deus loves Arline a lovely young girl, the Gypsy 'Queen attempts to revenge the lovers and contrives con-trives to have Arline arrested for having stolen the madal lion from Florestine. When this plan fails,.! she tries her evil again, directing one of her followers to shoot Arline; Ar-line; but Devilshoof, head of the band of gypsies, intervents, just m time to turn the rifle towards the Queen, who falls as the shot is fired. Three evening performances will be presented in the Nibley Hall on the Logan senior high school's campus with three sep-arate sep-arate casts, two choruses, and a i v ;v s V . i N V j . ; my' y c I !: I JEAX SAXT 45 piece student orchestra participating. parti-cipating. Professor N. W. Christiansen Chris-tiansen directs the orchestra. "The opera originally was scheduled sched-uled for January 25, 26 and 27 but due to the absence of two male leads Dean Ward of Bloom mgton, Idaho and Reid Watkins of Logan, who are in San Fran cisco, Cal., taking air corps ex aminations, the, production dates were postponed. i - It !. 1 KKKMCE CHRISTIANSEN |