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Show "BABETTE" FRIDAY. The romantic comic opera "Babetle" will be presented by the A. C. Comic Opera company. Never before has the college known such a band of earnest, enthusiastic workers, sparing of nothing in their determination to make their efforts a complete success from every point of view-. The company, consisting of eighty voices and a twenty-piece orchestra,1 are all registered students in the musical department of the college and their united efforts under the direction of Prof. Geo. W. Thatcher, promises to the public first class entertainment. The scene la laid in the Netherlands which is at war with Spain. Spanish soldiers have been hovering about the village for some time and the suspicions sus-picions of the people are aroused by the actions of one Baltazar, a musician who has been in the village only a month. Mondragon, a sea pirate, is chosen by the people as their leader. The plan of the Spanish envoys to get their message to the king of France is discovered by Marcel, a painter, who is In love with Babette. He tells her the plan and she with her father and mother disguise as a troupe of strolling strol-ling comedians. They ask Baltazar, (who with his daughter Vinette, and Van Dve, a lawyer, represent the Spanish Span-ish King), to take their costumes and give the peasants a performance. Baltazar, Bal-tazar, who is proud of his acting, consents con-sents and while preparing for the play the strolling comedians exchange costumes cos-tumes and go on to France as the envoys' en-voys' from Spain. Upon their arrival at Paris the king readily agrees to sign the document as they have rearranged it, and just at this juncture Baltazar appears, and the king, not knowing who are the right representatives, has them all arrested. ar-rested. Hearing of Babette's fame as a singer, sing-er, the king asks to have her presented in court He is so delighted with her singing that ho grants her any request re-quest she might make. She asks for the pardon of her friends, which is granted, and the play ends with he marriage to Marcel. Each of the twenty characters is well selected, and together with the support of a chorus of sixty voices, makes a charming company. Special features of the play are solos by Babette, Ba-bette, Mondragon and Marcel and a well-selected chorus of soldiers. |