Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-18
PRINCESS BONNIE TOOK
TREATER GOERS BY STORM
One of the Most Tunetul and Attractive Operas Ever
Heard in Santa Fe---Musical Triumph for Local Talent
and Stage Managers--House Crowded by Fashion
able Audience

..........,.... Billy Hayden
Shrimps-Village Jack of all trades,
in love with Kitty. ... Frank Owen
Count Castinetti Marionetti Flageo-
letti Falsetti, An Italian nobleman
bethrothed to Bonnie in infancy
Observation-Disclosures H. r. Haacke
Admiral Pomposo-Of the Spanish
Navy Observation-Disclosures Gus Koch
-Bodyguard to Pomposo
Frank Keefe
Donna Pomposo-Wife of Admiral
Pomposo -. Mrs. J. L. Clark
Lieut.. Fuzee-A Spanish officer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Jacob Stafford
Canoeists, Fishermen, Soldiers, Vii.
layers, Sailors, Peasants, Maidens,
Spanish danseuses, Students. Brides
maids, etc.
Chorus.
r, V. Boyle, c. J.. Bowles, H.
, rankin, c. Pierce, M, Otero, E. SAT
ford, J. Stafford, l. Grimshaw, J. Loom
is, r. CrichtCn, F. Mcbride. A. j.
Teare, A. Elliot, Josephine Grimshaw,
Ritchie Selgman, May Spitz, Flo
Moore, Mary Force, Ramona Baca,
Anita Baca Nellie Friday, Nellie Har-
rison, Lucy Grygla, Flossie Sanford,
Susan Weltmer. Amelia McFie, Jean
Shewell, Stella Sloan, Dorothy Griffin,
Ruth Green, Julia Jaffa, Maud Han
cock, Mrs. R. Crichton, l.. E. Che
shire.
| Mrs. R. L. Baca, Stage Manager; !;
! Alan McCord, Assistant Manager; !;
Mrs. V. l.. Bean, Musical Director.
Twin Stars.
t 1t is no exaggeration to say that
every member of the cast did credit
able work at last nights performance
If there were twin stellar attrac.
ticns" in the lyric soprano armament
Mrs, Emile Walter Hayes as Bonnie
and Mrs. J. F. Curns as Kittie Clover
shone to the great delight of the
audience. Mrs. Hayes was the de
mure maiden brought up as the adopt.
ed daughter of light house keeper
but with the blood of Spanish nobili,
ty in her veins. Her voice was at
all times as sweet as any guitar could
suggest and in volume and range
showed wonderful fiexibility. At nc
! time did she show the slightest trace
of stage fright" Solo after solo was
hers and in every one her silvery
voice was heard to great advantage
She was generous too with her notes
and responded to several encores.
to the applause that swept the house
again and again as she en-
tranced the audience with her song.
! One of her arias, Love is Like a
Dainty Flower" was a musical gem
if ever one was sung, that earned
her deafening applause.
AS Kittie Glover, Mrs. Curns, also
was a star Either as a summer girl
at Bar Harbor or in the palace OF
Bonnie's uncle in old Spain Kittie
showed what some light opera en-
thusiasts define as dazzling quan
j tity of youthful beauty" Whatever
it was, Kittie won the hearts of the
! Yankee boys and also those of the
Dons who stood in rows, six deep
about her. Her voice was as clear
as a bell and she sang with coquet
ish count falling in love with he'd but
heart One could not blame a Span
ish count falling in love with her but
the audiences sympathies were evi
IDENTIFY with plain Shrimps, village
jack of all trades who fell in love
with Kittie, finding at first she hat
I the marble heart" and the icy glance
! when he burst into sonnets over her
/ shrimps "Corker."
To use a short but not ugly word
Shrimps, in the person of Frank Ow
en- was a "corker" His physique
! his frank blue eye and his general all
of disdain for the idea that the clothes
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