The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-30
CONFINEMENT Last NIGHT.
Entertainment at the Cl.s.ns OF a Successful
school Term.

The parochial school commencement ex-
ercises were held in the school hall last
evening before :. select audienee Including
Bishop Heunessy, several priests and the
parents aud friends OF the pupils.
the hall was fitted with nice stage eie-
gantly draped and adorned with plants,
flowers, etc
Miss Daisy Lynch and Josephine Getto
presided at the pianos and delighted the
audirncs with their fine music.
Tie exercises consisted OK vocal and in
strumental music, a pretty little drama
entitled ''Costanza," and the comforting OF
hOnOrs
Till We Meet Again" was the opening
number sung in the most charming man
ner by u chorus of the more advanced
pupils. I; was very pretty and was highly
applguded by the vocal critics who were
present.
Flower scene. from voices of nature was
the next piece 1t was sung by some thirty
five Or forty handsoms little girls dressed
IN white, and was most admirably per
formed at the end of which they were
heartily encoTed. Very noticeable fea-
lures were the style and grace of the pretty
little performers and the admirable train
ing they had received by the sisters.
Everything was like ciockwork.
The following is the GTamatis personae
of the play ''Costanza":
'Costanza" ....:.-..-.-.....::M Miss u; Shea
Countess Adriana'' ;.....-.-: Miss b. Martin
Antonio" niece - the countess. Miss J. GcttO
Maria -.-..-..-..--.-...--....-M Miss VI Watch
'Myrica'. .............-....Miss y. Fitzpatrick
Mother MaddaIna" .......-.::.. Miss ;. Linot
SISTER Blanca Miss q. Cunning
..CbarIctt- Zinjr Venetian. Miss = Dsvis
"Ernesta ArCO" Miss C.. Wood
The events of the drama are supposed TO
f.a. II h. a # h..
fifteenth century. Countess Adriana. a
Venetian noble-woman, has been blind
since the birth of her only child, Maria.
This child had been stolen in her infancy
by the chief Of n wandering gypsy tribe,
who substituted in her stead hiss own
child, Costanza. The blind countess not
knowing The cruel wrong done her. reared
as her dearly loved daugter the naughty
gypsy girl, who grew the heiress of the
noble house, Pisani. Myrica. the gypsy
mother OF COstanZa, Graves from her the
position as nandmaiden, and being dis
dainfully repulsed, she, IN moment of
passion, discloses to the proud heiress the
secret of her birth. Maria, who has been
reared in convent, is at length
discovered to be the true daughter of
the countess, but being DESTROYS of cnnse-
Grating her life TO God IN the religious
state, she asks aud obtains permission TO
retire to her loved convent home. As a
reward for this great sacrifice of her
daughters love, the countess mIraculously
obtains a restoration of her sight, at which
point the drama closes.
1t was performed by the young ladies
participating with more than ordinary
merit from whom many of the so called
professionals might receive pointers in
stage eloquence.
The school has closed n very successful
term and the sisters may we'll feel proud
of the work they have done. The enroll
ment of the school is said to be not far
from 300 with promised increase for the
next term. About half of these are edu-
Gated free the rule being that children
who are too poor TO pay the nominal tut
ton are educated free
At the close of the exercises Bishop Hen
messy delivered pretty and touching pa
ternal address TO the graduates aud
pupils,