Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-25
OF GIRLS
TOAD BANKERS
ANNUAL SHOW OF FINANCIAL
MEN TO BE NOVEL
FULL COMIC OPERA WILL BE
PRESENTED
Extravaganza Written by Local Talent
and Cast of Twenty with Chorus
of Fifty Persons Necessary
for Production

Six pretty Los Angeles society girls,
all of musical temperament, with six
young bank employees, are likely with
in the next two weeks to become in
their WY as famous as was that famed
sextet which made "Florodora" one
of the most notable comic operas Of a
decade.
This local sextet of girls may wed
as many millionaires as the former,
and in future years it may be as much
a social cachet to say II was mem
Der of the Senoritas sextet" as it
is now a hallmark in theatrical circles
to claim membership in the "Floro-
dora" assemblage of beauty.
This Senorita sextet is one of the
many stunning features in the locally
written opera, when the Gringo
Came" which Charles Saxby and P.
H Kaufman composed for this year S
annual bankers show. The young
women in it are Misses Lillian Ossing,
Lyle Babcock, Georgia Morton, Char
lotte Leland, Harriet Candee and Edna
Spaulding, and with them will be an
equal number of men, Messrs. Bolton,
DeBarr, Hunt, Lumpkin Sparks and
Van Cleave. The young men will i'm
personate dons of old Spanish type,
but the girls will be senoritas and
will be the center of attraction.
The bankers show this year will
differ radically from the usual in that,
instead of a minstrel performance on
one night. it will be a complete comic
opera and will be presented three
nights. November 4, and 6, at the
Mason theater. The opera is not only
a local composition, but its locale is
southern California also. 1t apper-
tains to the discoYery-or rediscoVery,
to be more accurate-of San Diego,
when into that manana town goes
Hooper Rupp, a Los Angeles booster,
to put some life into things via the
airship route. This gives ample OPP
portunity for a varied lot of costum-
ing, music and characterization, and
the young composers have taken full
advantage of this in their work,
The opera fairly bristles with clever
songs, love ditties, topical hits and
ensemble numbers, and a chorus of
fifty persons, besides a cast of twenty
is required to interpret it.
In case it is the success expected it
will be given a professional produc-
ton. Harry Girard is experimenting
the production and e. c. Hammer
meyer is the musical director. In the
cast are the persons named. with
Misses Olive Moser, lone Gale, Helen
Bosbyshell, Florence Bartlett, Maud
Lawton; Messrs. Charles Thompson
William Ream jr., T. ]. Finn, H. c,
Packer, r. c. McComas, Ray Church
A. S. McKinnon (who does a comedy
woman, Carmencita OFF; -lerty), c.
s. Seidel Ed Punch and Ray Padrick
in addition to the mixed chorus OF
| fifty voices. Special scenery has beer
constructed and special costumes have
| been made so that a complete produc-
| ton, ready for the road, will be offered
! The advance sale of tickets has beer
| heavy and these will be exchanged al
| the Mason box office Thursday, wher
! the general sale will be begun.
! Meanwhile Harry Girard has called
rehearsals for every night and after
noon, beginning Tuesday, at the Gamui
club, and announces his intention o.
giving a perfect performance In every
detail when the curtain rises weel
from Thursday night