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Show Roosevelt High Music Department Stages "Cutest Event In Years" The Roosevelt High school music department did itself proud Tuesday and Wednesday nights with its presentation of the operetta, oper-etta, "The Mocking Bird," and as just compensation for a sterling production the full cast and chorus have accepted an invitation J to repeat the performance at Vernal next Monday night. a r - Some concern was expressed, following Tuesday's staging of the musical, that it might prove to be a financial flop. To costume the actors for The Mocking Bird," was no small financial undertaking and any observer who attended Tuesday's curtain raiser would have opined that it might have been difficult to have raised enough to pay the rent on the leading lady's gowns even by passing the hat around the unpacked house. But despite the shadow, the operetta was an entertainment feature of high quality. No one expected a professional performance, perfor-mance, and no one was disappointed, disap-pointed, just thoroughly entertained enter-tained by amateur singers who were seriously concerned with the job at hand. And not even .professionals, trained to the sharpness of a pin, can equal a high school music department when it comes to staging an operetta. It took weeks and weeks of rehearsing for J. Stratford Loos-le Loos-le to bring his high school singers sing-ers to that degree of perfection that labeled the climaxing event as "the cutest thing seen around these parts.-" The work that went into "The Mocking Bird" was very much in evidence and is surely entitled to every ounce of appreciation the community can spare even to helping the music department out if it falls short of meeting its financial obligations. ob-ligations. If the presentation of an oper-letta oper-letta fails to become an annual i major event for the Roosevelt High school, after the remarkable remark-able staging of "The Mocking Bird," then RHS will be passing a bet, and the citizens of Roosevelt Roose-velt missing entertainment par excellent. |