The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-14
A MUSICAL COMEDY
''In a Toyshop'' Was Present.
ed Under Auspices Of
St. Mary's Guild.
Home Talent Scored a Good
Hit in the Comedy--Was
Given Two Nights.
Mrs. Lukens' General Orders
Received High Praise by
National Officer.
COMEDY IN A TOYSH0P
COMEDY IN A T0YsHoP
A Dainty Musical Comedy Presented
at City Hall Friday Night Was
Fine Success.

The audience which attended
Bib, the French Doll, at the city
hall Friday evening was entertained
with as pretty a musical comedy as
has been seen in Mitchell in a long
time. 1t was given urder the dieyct-
ion Of Carrie McCune and auspices
OF St. Mary's Guild. The comedy
showed that an immense amount of
work had been done to bring all the
parts to nearly a perfection, and
when it is taken into consideration
that there were eighty people in
the cast it can be readily I'm derstood
that it was a big undertaking, and
from the smallest tots to the young
ladies and gentlemen they fulfilled
their parts in a highly successful
manner.
The scene represents a toy shop
filled with dolls and animal toys, all
of which are brought to life through
the administering of powerful SMELL
ing salts through the aid Of a fairy,
and then it is that the fun starts and
it ends only when the fairy returns
and restores them to their natural
conditions. The characters were i'm
personated with excellent taste and
their gyrations around the stage
were laughable. Wauneta Ferris made
a charming Bib, the French doll,
whose hcklenss led her to elope with
the Man in the Moon, which was i'm
personated by Delvan Becker, and he
wooed her with a fascinating charm
in words and song. Louis Beckwith
was Prince Caramel and Earl Water
bury was Sergeant Bonbon, both Of
whom we're rivals for the hand and
love of Bib, which twice precipitated
a bloodless duel for supremacy. Both
young gentlemen poured forth their
admiration In song and in their re-
spective parts made a good impress
ion on the audience. Miss McCune
was Katy, the shopgirl, and direct ed
the progress of the comedy. Miss
Mae WEIGH as Angelica, the rag doll,
made a hit In her actions and her
song, and vas encored. Her devotion
to Capt. Tillerope was very affecting.
Harry Slade impersonated the cap
tain with great digniy and command
ing spirit, although he was crushed
when Katy Threatened to put him
in a paper box for characterization.
The captain was good in his solo.
Topsy, the black doll, was presented
in a life like manner by Grace Greg
ory, whose antics and sayings added
to the amusement of the comedy. In
her song she was assisted by the frog,
the owl, the pussy cat an d the piggy
from Noah's Ark, and 1T was a cap
tivating little song. Miss Lepore
Prescott made a charming fairy and
through her fundamentally chaos
reignei and through her ministra-
lions quiet was restored in the toy
shop. Jos. Michels was the Sandman
who Demonstrated he was not a myth,
and John Porter was Gluepot, the toy
man.
Sitting on a rear shelf was a row
OF doll heads that made life uncom-
Portable, for the dolls that were In
love, by a series OF giggles which
brought forth words of ex~coriation
from the offended parties.
Each Of the toys that we're stored
away in the back room made their
appearance in a speciality that was
very taking, the first to break out
being the jumping jacks, which did
a jumping speciality. They were fol-
lowed by the paper dolls IN a pretty
march and then came the brownies
with a catchy marching song and a
little speciality with the paper dolls.
AS they finished their speciality
Mrs. Ihez Herbert appeared in the
group and sang an appropriate and
pretty selection from "Toy-
land The japanese girls sang a
dainty little song in costume and the
little fire dies in red gowns gave a
dainty dance. The flower fantasia
was a series of pretty movements by
twelve young ladies all dressed In