The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-02
MT. CARMELITES
GIVE 0PERETTA
Students of Academy Evince
Dramatic Talents.
PLAYED "SN0W WHITE"
Entertainment Given in New
Auditorium of Academy.
PLAYED "SN0W WHITE"

With an appropriate production the new
auditorium Of the Mount Carmel
Academy was opened last night The
students OF the academy gave the oper-
eta, Snow White" in a highly credit
able manner both to themselves and to
the school.
The new addition to the academy has
lately been finished. and although part
Of the building has been used for some
weeks this was the first time the audito-
rum was used. This room is a spacious
one. well adapted to the purposes for
which it was constructed, and has a
seating capacity of several hundred, and
a fine stage, with scenery. of an equal
beauty and finish of any in the state.
At one time last night there were
eighty people on the stage. and then it
was not crowded.
The scenes are true TO life. not one de-
tail being omitted The scenery is the
gift Of Bishop Hennessy. only two
scenes were used last night but these
were especially beautiful.
The piece given last night is the story
of a beautiful princess and her jealous
step-mother OF course. il is more of a
fairy tale than a play, but there is
great deal Of really beautiful music in
IL, and there is also a good chance for
character acting.
Snow White" has the love Of all the
fairies of her land. even the birds and
beasts love her for her goodness. Her
step-mother is a vain woman and a witch
called the most beautiful of the land.
Snow Whites band could not do this.
as they loved the little maiden too well
and then the Queen decided 10 send her
- the woods in charge of her hunts
man, Carl, who was instructed to muir
der the fair princess.
Carl could not get courage enough to
XIII Snow White, but leaves her in the
woods TO live as best she may while he
kills hind and takes the heart to the
Queen as evidence that her rival had been
Slain
Now there is q Prince Of another land
who has an uncle that decreed that the
Prince should not reign over his kingdom
until he had taken the fairest lady in the
world as q bride, and the Prince was
travelling through the country in search
o. this maiden.
He comes through the forest soon after
Carl leaves the Princess to her fate, and
the huntsman describes her to him and
then the Prince puts all of his men at
work hunting the Princess.
Snow White toiled through the forest
for several hours. and finally came to the
home OF the Seven Dwarfs, who find her
asleep when they come home to dinner.
Il e., Of bao
her story, and admonish her TO keep
away from all persons. Then they go out
t. work.
The Queen in the meantime had con-
suited her magic mirror and found that
Snow White still lives, and that the
huntsman had not killed her. and she
Immediately starts on a hunt for her
hated rival She finds the Princess !
asleep in the cabin of the Dwarfs, ana
pays the part of an old woman selling
iaces and ribbons.
Snow White refuses TO buy any OF her
goods but the woman presented her with
q girdle. and places it around her waist
This gfrdle presses the life from the fair
Princess and the Queen exulting in her
supposed victory cries out that she is at
last the fairest in all the land.
The Dwarfs seeing her go from the
house, come IN and find their ward al but
dead. The girdle is quickly removed and
the Princess comes TO Ife The Queen
tries another ruse by coming to the house
a. a vender OF vegetables. She persuades
Snow White TO eat part of an apple, and
the little lady is poisoned and again the
tealous Queen believes she is triumphant
The Dwarfs and fairies arrive in the
nick Of time and save the Princess life
While the Dwarfs were kneeling around I
the bed of the poisoned Princess the |
Prince comes ia and finds the lady of his /
search at the point Of death.
He proposes and of course is accepted. I
and the wedding day is set and is to take /
place in the gardens of the Prince. Here (
gather all the fairies dwarfs and the /
loyal subjects of Snow White 10 witness /
her marriage 10 the Prince. world-famed /
for his goodness and charity
Soon the bridal party enters the gar
den and the Queen comes in. determined /
70 in some manner make away With the /
fair Princess She is accompanied by /
Carr the huntsnlau. Here she meets one /
more powerful than herself The Prince i
recognizes her and after heaping denun- I
citation on her head for her wicked de-
sires. banishes her from his kingdom /
She departs. asking Casl TO follow her.
but that noble man of the forest de-
serts her and goes 10 the side Of the
Princess.
The Sisters Of st. Joseph deserve un-
stinted praise for the way they drilled /
those eighty children 10 perform their
parts with the greatest precision. The