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Show 1 HERE'S THE CAST OF "NAUTICAL KNOT" WEBER NORMAL WILL GIVE "NAUTICAL KNOT' AT ORPHEUM MONDAY I : "The Nautical Knot," a two-act comic opera by Maude Elizabeth Incli and William Rys Herbert, will be presented pre-sented by the Weber normal college 'tomorrow. The two glee clubs of the school have joined together, and under un-der the direction of Professor William Manning, are busy mastering their parts. Considerable competition was shown In the choosing of the cast. Lottie Hammer won out over a number num-ber of other students for the leading role of Julia, a haughty maid of Barn-stapoole. Barn-stapoole. Miss Mammcr has a mcl-ilow mcl-ilow soprano voice and capably fills tho role. Luella Nicholas was chosen to fill the part of Nanco, a gentle damsel. This part is difficult, requiring a well trained mezzo-soprano voice. Miss Nicholas has had experienco on iha stage and has a beautiful voice, which enables her to fill this role well. Golden Bingham, as a husky sea captain takes the part of Joe Stou. capably. Mr. Bingham has a fine barltono voice. Bert Leishman, a tenor of promise, as Barnabas Lee, displays the artistic temperament of a real artist. The difficult part of Bill Salt, captain of the Bounding Billow, requiring a strong bass voice and plenty of stage action, is filled by Wallace Budge. Supporting these principals are throe choruses of eight sailors, eight Barnstapoolo girls and eight arcisis and a large chorus of fifty townspeople. townspeo-ple. The school orchestra is furnishing 4 the music at the rehearsals and together to-gether with the Orpheum concert orchestra or-chestra will furnish the music the night of the performance. The whole performance is full of vigor, rich In humor and teeming with beautiful music. This is tho first attempt at-tempt of the normal collego at this line of entertainment, but it promises to eclipse all the high class entertainments entertain-ments presented by the Weber students. stu-dents. The cast in Its entirety follows: fol-lows: Joe Stout Golden Bingham Bill Salt Wallace Budge Barnabas Leo Bert Leishman Julia, the haughty belle of Barn: - stapool Lottie Hammer Nance, a gentle damsel ' Luella Nichols Sailors of the Bounding Billow Jirii Brace Leslie Fouus Jack Straw.' Lay ton Galbraith Ned Spray Olin Kmc Other Sailors Paul Cragun, John Shorten Roy Saunders, Jack Croft and Walt Siu-venson. Siu-venson. Barnstapool Girls Delia Nan Emmett Daisy Melba Douglas Dora Irsa Taylor Marjorle Johansen, Lucilo Shurtliff, Letta Manning, Frances O'Njil and Mabel Miller. Floyd Stuart, Clawson Lewis, Lo I'R Artists Floyd 'Stuart, Clawson Lewis, DeLoss Williams. David Williams, Wil-liams, Cyril Wilson, Elwood Burrows, Cleo Wilson and Clarence Brown. Chorus of fifty townspeople. |