Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-08-31
THE seminary GIRL.
A NEW IDEAL IN MUSICAL
ENTERTAINMENT.
The Offering at the Messenger
Opera House Next Friday
Night Should Not Be
Passed.

The theatre-goers of Gold5bOrO
usual opportunity that is afforded
them in "The Seminary Grip next
Friday night for an evening OF
rarest aud most varied enjoyment
and not wait until the snow has
come and gone to make up to what
they have missed.
The new management of the
Messenger Opera House have gone
to great expense in entirely re-
modelling, charging and refurnish-
ing this house aud nave determined
~ give the Goldsboro people only
high-classed piays---none but the
best, and this, too, is an expensive
undertaking: SO that it IS now right
up to the Goldsooro public to show
by their measure of patronage the
manner of plays they desire to have
visit the city.
The Seminary Girl is, really, a
high-class comic opera. Steve
DWyer, New Y ork politician, rea-
hzIng that his daughter Dorothy
will soon leave the seminary, deter
mines to have plenty of blue blood
in the family. Armed with check
book he goes 10 GerLnany in search
of a little; meets Baron Rudolph Won
Gruber; ;looks up Ills family and buys
up the scion of nobility outright and
returns 10 the United STATES. Dorothy
and some OF her friends are spending
the summer at Saratoga. Young
Grammar, a typical American of the
never-say- Class, very much IN love
with Dorothy, meets her father and
takes him Tor an escaped lunatic,
Datfy Dan. Steve thinks the young
man is crazy and tries to humor him.
in comes an aged school marm spin
ster VINO would say''yes" to the
question which would add the prefix
OF Mrs. to her name. She imagine
that Dwyer Is the King OF some
South sea Islands and relentlesoIy
purSueS him. The BarOn's American
wife arrives in search of her
vanishing husband and mistakes
the German wiaIer, Schultz, a fol-
lower of Grannan's, for the Baron.
Daffy Dan, the lunatic, comes into
view and points out old Dwyer as the
insane Individual. The trouble wake s
fast and furious for everybody. The
second act shows hedeck OF yacht.
How Grammar prevents the marriage
of Dorothy and the Baron is highly
iaAeKssting and the sequence is
naaA7rally worked cut. The piece
contains twenty musical numbers
which are all hits. And the chorus
is a large and brilliant one. Miss
Marion LongfelloW is appearing in
the title part and the supporting
company includes Knite Erickson,
George German, Harry Forsmay, w.
A. Quirk, J. ". Howard, Milton
Corigan, Winifred Florence, Jane
Hood, AdeIian Stevens, Glare Roat-
tino, Elita Bridgefort and Rayo, the
Great.
Miss. Longfellow not only possesses
a beautiful face and much talent,
but comes of family tree of which
any lady in the land might feel
proud. She is a direct descendant
of one of Americas greatest poets,
Henry w. LongfelIer, a name that
will go down the pages of history and
live forever. There is perhaps no
other poet WHOSE works are so well
known. The theme of ''The Proud
Prince" which Mr.. E. III. Southern
presented, was taken from Longfel-
lows poem. ''RoDert of Sicily" Miss
Longfellow, is yet in her teens, being
only seventeen yet her career on the
stage has been most pronounced, ,
having appeared with many of the
most prominent shars.