The Calumet news., 1912-07-16
PLOT IN SPRING
MAID IS CLEVER
Notable Attraction Coming to
Calumet on July 29

one of the most notable attractions
ever booked for the Calumet theater
is THE Spring Maid" which will be
presented here Monday evening July
30. The story runs as follows:
A prince of Hungary. rich and pow
erful. debonnair and gay. had grown
10 be gnown as a dangerous flirt with
victim strewn pathway behind him.
and his cold dislike for the women of
his own rank and romantic attach
ments for the spring girls and coy
beauties of the middle class were
known over his country.
To Carlsbad for the festival time
he comes, and here also comes Prn-
cess Zozena and her doting father;
the princess most autocratic of the
title court who has scoffed at her
docking lovers. ana yet who carries
securely hidden from all, her own
vivid dreams of the iove to come.
Concealed from sight she hears
Prince Aladar say to his friends; 81
never met an aristocratic woman who
had a particle of charm for me.
"a man of the world must have
something other than these inane
creatures To give zest TO life. These
wall flowers of aristocracy with their
affected ease. These feathered pea
cocks of society who live their lives
in luxurious Incidence. My Lady OF
today-one cannot talk with her;
cannot laugh with her, and as for
making love TO -br-r-r-r! Ice
bergs," ~ k
He wagcrs a dinner for them all
that the most charming of the little
spring. girls will not be able 10 resist
his love making and is hardly out OF
the way when the enraged princess
flashes before them i'm denunciation:
"Oh, the cowardice of YOU men to
stand there and hear your women
your sisters. reviled In such a manner
And the injustice of II all These
wall flowers of aristocraey! My La
dy of today is repellant. frigid. Ice
bergs' And why? Because my lady
of today is forced by social restric-
1 tions into modest occurrences that
these men demand. who still admire
the spirit and frivolity i'm others-they
would resent in their own class. This
| fellow shall have the conceit taken
out of him by one of these very pea
cocks he SO maligns.'
Firm i'm this determination. she
takes the place of the little spring
lgirl the prince has wagered .he will
I win, and i'm her plebian costume
stands at the spring in the public
square with a saucy word and cur
| of warm water for all who cluster
about. Here .ooraes lIersfather attract
ed by the crowd and tries to kiss hei
before he sees who SHE is; here comes
| Prince Aladar to win his wager and
attempts to carry all before him by
The fervor of his love-making A due
begins between them in which the
msichievious wit of the princess wins
for her the first slirmish.
In furtherance of her plans to pun
| ish him. the princess agrees to &c
with the prince the next day to- Bit
tcrbrunen. but as they start away In
the motor ear she carries her father
carefully disguised as the most comic
of protective aunts.
| At Bitterbrunen she laughs at his
| love pleas, evades his caresses, ano
] even drives her watchful "aunty' into
the throes of a simulated fit that she
may<tantalize the now distracted low.
| er. She flies from the gay into thu
| sentimental, the pouting, the mock
ing and the inviting. and when th'
prince awakes to the truth of his
growing love for her and proposes
| marriage. she laughs at him and re-
minds him of the insulting wager HI
made. Then he finds she is prin-
cess and not a spring girl. and before
the village people she slaps his face
and sends him away. but too late finds
that her heart has gone with him.
She sings to him from her balloon!
and throws him rose. but is not We
entirely won and so tells him. "wher
the Carlsbad Spring runs dry. thei
YOU may come for me-" and then-bu
! II is not likely that the health givini
spring of Carlsbad should run dry ant
disappoint the visiting crowds, and l
Princess of the royal blood canno
give and take her noble word idly
and so it requires most ingeniu
comic opera librettist to tell why al
ends happily in the midst of the woo'
nymphs. fluffy rabbits and the dane
ing fairies of the Carlsbad celebration
and the audience may so homewar'
with the swaying music of the Lowell!
pay Dreams" bringing to thei
minds eye those other dreams OF thei
secret own which are just as likely t
come true.