The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-09
PENIKEEsE COMIC OPERA.
Creditable Production by Local Talent
 Last Evening.

Cfedltaole Production by Local Talent
 Last Evening.
 The popular Yale comic opera Peni- Reese was produced at the Hyperion last evening by . company comprising the best local musical talent of the city. A fairly good sized house was present and showed it's appreciation of the opera by frequent applause. The opera will be produced again this even- ing, and deserves a larger house than that of last evening.
 The music of the opera is by Thomas G. Shepard and the book by D. H. Buell., Yale 'S3.
 The whole has been carefully revised by Green '94, Japhon '97 and w. II. Hale of New Haven.
 The dramatis personae are
 Dr. McBosh, D. D., Principal of the
 Penikeese School of Gastronomy.
 ...... ... ..........Mr. Riley Phillips Bininger Bonanza. g millionaire Yale
 student. ...... MT. Edward Woodstock Leo Ward, Cadet Midshipman from
 the U. S. Practice Ship "Constitu-
 tion". ..... .... MT. Charles Mann Mung Yew Chun, a Celestial, for
 merly Laundryman on board the
 U. S. s. Constitution" ............
 ........ ......... ...Mr. B. A. Aubrey First Midshipman.. ..........Mr. Hall Miss Tea-Caddy, Instructress in
 Practical Pot Boiling at Penikeese
 School...,. MT. Erastus Judge Millicent Melange, Pupil in the Peni-
 Reese School. Miss May Loveridge Annette Trent, Pupil at the Peni-
 keese school.... Miss Daisy Powell Miss Charlotte Russo, Tutor in Prin-
 ciples of Pastry at the Penikeese
 School .... ..... Miss Pauline Meehan Director. .. ...........C. E. Macomber Stage Manager. ...D. A. Jones
 The synopsis of the plot is as fol- lows: Millicent Melangr and Annette Trent, pupils at the Penikeese sum- mer school of Gastronomy, are in love respectively with Midshipman Lee Ward and Bininger Bonanza, the former a cadet from Annapolis, the latter a mill lionaire Yale student. Ward is on shore leave from the Constitution" and Bonanza has just arrived from New Haven on his yacht. The affec- tions of the young men, however, are differently bestowed, Ward being in love with Annette and Bonanza with Millicent Miss Tea-Caddy. professor at the school, is in love with Dr. Mo- Bosh, the principal With keen pro- pensity for match making, she pro- poses plan to Ward and Bonanza to disguise themselves in each others clothes, and thus gain the affections of the girl each prefers, at the same time enlisting the services of her affair with McBosh. Bininger, while disguised as Ward, commits breach of etiquette. and is arrested and taken on board the Constitution" He escapes, comes ashore, meets Millicent and resumes his love making. He is on the point of again being arrested when the real Lee Ward explains the situation and he is | released. In the meantime Miss Tea Caddy's love affair with the doctor is not prospering. She hides the China man, Mung Yew Chung, who has run away from the ship, from the cadets who are searching for him, thereby earning his gratitude. This gratitude blossoms into affection and Mung makes violent love to her, to her un- speakable horror She has moonlight tete-a-tete with the doctor, in the most interesting portion of which Mung ap- pears and attacks McBosh with jeal- ous fury. Mung finally succulnbs to the doctors prowess and the tete-a- tete is resumed. At the conclusion of Lee Wards explanation of the change of costumes, etc., by himself and Bonan- ga, the two girls decide to accept the situation. and Miss Tea-Caddy having won Dr. McBosh, has thus carried our her scheme to the satisfaction of every body concerned except the Chinaman.