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Show MIAN COMES 18 K CITY By tho request of a number of Ogden Og-den people cpoc'al arrangements have boGn completed and the pretty opera. "The Mitedo," will be presonted under un-der the direction of Squire Coop Monday Mon-day night, July 15, at the Orpheum theater Tho opera, which is ono of tho best works of the immortal collaborators,' Gilbert & Sullivan, redolent with haunting melodies and rhyme The story of "'The Mikado,' 'which is a burlesque on the high offlcinl life of Japan, Is full of clean, sparkling spark-ling wit, superior by a wide margin to that which is proidod by the average aver-age comic opera of today. Through the corned rnn a pretty lovo story, told by acting and song. The hero Is Nankl Poo fM. J. Brines), the mikado's mika-do's son, who is disguised as a wandering wan-dering minstrel, In love with Yum Yum. the heroine, and one of three wards of Ko Ko, the lord high executioner. exe-cutioner. But their love course la blocked "by two apparently Insurmountable Insur-mountable obstacles, first by the fact that Ko Ko, himself is In "love with his sweet little ward but Ko Ko is nevertheless tho impossible suitor and second by reason of tho claims ot Katlsha, an elderly lady in love with Nanki Poo It Is she who makes raoBt of tho troublo for Nankl Poo and Yum Yum, although Ko Ko as an obstacle gains the lovers' respect Finally the mikado mi-kado appears and things begin to ad-Just ad-Just themselves just about tho timo thnt Nankl Poo is to become tho victim vic-tim of the executioner When the mikado appeurs he is told that the wandering minstrel, who ho learns Is his son, has been beheaded The wrath of tho mikado ensues and Is only checked by th,e sudden reappearance reap-pearance of Nankl Poo and Yum Yum. Ko Ko is now moro than willing, of course, that Yum Yum should marry hor lover, and Katieha ultimately faces the inevitable with graceful resignation. res-ignation. She herself is courted and won by Ko Ko. The work of the chorus is far abovo the average In amateur productions and the bright costumes and clever makeup all aid materially In making the opera a groat success. |