Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18

she had perfect control. This was Miss
Collins first appearance in public and
those who heard her. were hardly pre-
pared for the ease in which she sang
her solos. She represented her
part especially well and charmed
all with her voice.
Mark Scholtield Is a natural born
actor; he is as easy on the stage, before
an audience, as professional. Mark
has an exceptionally fine baritone voice
which shows careful training. He was
assigned the parts of THE Commo-
dore' and The Beggar,'' and the
PILOT does violation to no ones feelings
when it says that Marks acting and
singing were feature that added
much to the pleasure of the evening.
Zeno Speer, as Farmer jim, sur
prised all his friends who did not know
that he possessed tenor voice of such
fine quality and wide range. His stage
presence aud acting was a source OF
favorable comment. The tenor solos
in his role gave him chance to show
his ability which he did to the manifest
pleasure of all.
One of the very excellent characters
was Karl Kraatz, who took the part OF
1.-The Judge" He was well made up
for the occasion and his white hair and
liberal application of powder and paint
changed him into dignitied old gentle
man He SO entirely sunk his person
atty in his part that one could not but
wonder what manner of a young man
he is off the stage MIR. Kraatz has a
baritone voice of very pleasing quality
and well under control.
Miss Louise Gearhart, as Monica
Miss Halle Haskin, as "Marjery;" Miss
Pearl Nickerson, as Dorothy" Miss
Gertrude Corwith, as Anita Miss
Jessie Flaherty, as "Maude;" Lena
Young, as Janet" Ida Ostring, as
Ruth" and Robert Sipes in the dual
role of Doctor and "Peddler," were
splendid in their various parts, and
deserved all the applause which was
given them and too much cannot be
written in their praise. Miss Gear
harris solos showed her to be the pos
SCISSOR Of a sweet sympathetic voice,
and Miss Haskin has a contralto voice
that is strong and very pleasing. The
Misses Nickerson, Corwith, Flaherty,
Young and Ostring are all IN
usually good soprano singers who
assisted materially in the rendition of
the OPERA
Morris Crocker, Harry Christensen
and Lloyd Wells made hit in their
appearance as the Three Jolly Farm
ers.n
A feature of the evening was the
chorus by soldiers in costume, led by
Captain Ralph German.
The high school orchestra, under the
able leadership of Arthur Lamotte,
rendered a number of selections and
played the Accomplishments for the
opera throughout. We douo if
there is another high school in the state
that can produce such an orchestra.
Too much cannot be said of its excel
lent work on Wednesday evening.
There were number of encores
responded 10 and many beautiful
bouquets of flowers sent up to the singers
during the progress of the opera.
The costumes were all of home manu-
facture with the exception, possibly,
those of Mark ScholfielG and Zeno Speer
and all were very pretty and becoming.
The stage settings were in keeping
with the occasion; palms and ferns
were artistically arranged on either
side of the rostrum and the background
was woodland scene making the land
of the milkmaids very realistic.
The cast was made up of seniors, the
under cIassmen assisting in the choruses,
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