Arizona republican., 1910-02-17
PICTURESQUE AND DAINTY WAS 0PERETTA
Novel Production by Woman's Club
 Charms the Audience.

One of the prettiest little Japanese l operas ever seen in Phoenix was that ! produced yesterday afternoon at the school of music by members of the Womans club It was as rich in color as an iris, and as dainty and delight ful as humming bird.
 The main floor Of the auditorium and the gallery were well filled-al- most crowded. with friends and guests of the club: and in this glad array of fashion and choice millinery were twelve brave men who said they came in spite of everything-and they did. Most of them had wives on the stage who took part in the Japanese Girr' and they just couldn't keep away; but there were d few who braved this army of the sentier sex because they knew that Womans club has never yet produced anything that wasn't worth going to see
 Members of the club told you as you went in that the play was produced by the regular club chorus: that there We're no professionals in the cast, no outsiders who were induced to take part on account of their voices. They said it in q matter of fact sort of way as though the club produced Jap anese plays every other day or so just to give the chorus practice.
 But when the curtain rose you saw q well painted back curtain depicting Fusiyama with the sea in the fore ground; and in front of il was that familiar wooden entrance to q temple
 
 thing like pergola; and on the right was q trells with flowers and lan- terms hanging from it; the whole just as Oriental and artistic as it couid be, and you began to think that the WO- mans club had planned this event rather carefully.
 And when the chorus came on the stage, each member of it dressed in differently colored kimono. one with chrysanthemums in her hair and an- other with fragrant honeysuckle. this one with a peacock fan, and that one with some dainty artifice that came direct from Japan: and when you heard them sing. all in unison and harmony. you felt that there had been at least two rehearsals and perhaps many more.
 The 'operetta. in two acts. was sung to the music of a piano alone. Mrs. Charles w. Jayred played the accom- paniment and did it artistically and with the right emphasis. Mrs. J. FL liott Walker was the leader. and to her is due the excellent training of a capable chorus.
 One of the prettiest numbers in the first act was the Singing Bird" Mrs. Thornton was the singing bird. She wore blue kimono with a border at the bottom of friendly looking green dragons She held in her hands a cage with a yellow canary in it while Mrs A. G. Hulett sang the lines of the song. Then Mrs. Thornton whistled the notes in tones that came very close to initiating the notes of the canary. Almost every one in the au- dience expected the canary to break forth into melody: but he didn't he simply looked surprised that any one could initiate his own song so closely.
 Another pretty number in the first act was SayOnara" or goodbye" by the chorus behind the scenes.
 Whatever shall I do?" was the first line of a song by Mrs. Elder which more nearly approached the comic than any other. It was cleverly ren- dered and brought prolonged appiUase.