Arizona republican., 1912-01-26
JAPANESE GIRL
 GREAT SUCCESS
Large Audience of Fedora tion Visitors Gathered at Women's Club Last
 Night.
MATINEE GIVEN TO
 MORROW AFTERNOON

for the entertainment of the federa-
 tion visitors. A second performance
 will be put on Saturday afternoon al
 the request of the public who wish
 to attend this operctta which made
 a most decided hit last night. A
 small admission fee will be charged
 Saturday for the benefit of the club
 house building and furnishing fund
 The Japanese Girl" opens with d
 song by Mrs. Arthur c. Hulctt, who
 iS c Hdnu san Japanese girl of Is who is about to celebrate her coming l"I age. Her cousin O kito san and 10 Kay San, who in Phoenix life are Mrs. Aucil Martin and Mrs Chas.
 Sterling. sing with her the chorus Iut the song. The sans" and the chorus sing d very pretty flower
 song and weave sarlauds to decorate
 the house for the tcte.
 Chdya, the servant, who is known
 to the Phuenicians as Mrs. Selim Nicholson, has d very effective scene
 in which she gathers up the gar
 lands and recitc her woes in the song, Whatever Shall Do" While she is
 
 l"f O Hanu San singing a song which tells that sorrow and disappointment have come to the household The mistress, accompanied by her faithful cousins. comes into the room crying. and e Kato san exhibits small roll | Of wall paper, that when translated proves to be d letter from the most | honorable and respectable father of 1 the heroine. He states that he is off | to the wars to curtail the cues of the l Chinamen. In his place he sends d dainty little canary bird in a perfectly good cage about two inches square. l According to Japanese folk lore, when d person has to be absent from 1 home for q considerable period, he ! leaves behind d growing plant, d young tree or singing bird as his l substitute, and it k considered un- l lucky if any harm befallS this rep 1 rcSentatiye and great care is taken of it. As a substitute for the revered | Mir. San, the canary sees his duty and does it nobly and he and 0 Hanu San have a duet that is really en- chanting. IL is probably true that the bird is a rank imposter for he | sounds just like Mrs. II. NJ Thorn ton. who can outwhistle a bird any day i The siesta song is very pretty in deed and as a work of art comments itself to the eye but as a position for the resting of weary muscles one needs to use his imagination not to think it d trifle strained.
 The bird continues to sing in the second act just as sweetly and with much more cleyerness. than a real canary, thus indicating that the omen of good luck is still working. The scene is laid in a Japanese garden and ! into it come straying two mischievous l American girls (Aliss Johnston and Mrs. SargeanD followed immediately 1 by their governess Miss Minerva Knowall who at home is called Miss Loise Murphy, and who is altogether too pretty as the elderly maiden to look natural in the part
 The lassies from the land of Uncle Sam, sing a duet in which they tell how they were crammed full of knowledge from the tender age Of two and they are not finished yet" The governess sings When I was a Girl" and falls asleep ir the garden, from which she is awakened by the Japan csc girls in their beautiful kimonos and chrysanthemum decked hair and one of the most attractive scenes of the operetta enSucs The governcss tries every language she can think of on this flower garden of girls; French, German and finally she ven lures Italian by singing a bit of II Trovatore She learns when O Ianu San arrives upon the scene, that the girls can all talk plain American.
 A song by Hanu san, Miss Know all and the chorus. in praise of America, is enthusiastically received. The exhibition of the American flag with the addition of "our star" and a local hit in regard to if and the new club house, twangs the string of popular approval and the resultant sound is both appropriate and apro- pos
 The first scene in the second act ends in an invitaton to the Americans to remain for the birthday festivities and the decking of O Hanu San for the occasion.
 In the second scene of this act the Mikado makes an unexpected ap- pearance at the party As q Mikado, Mrs Tafel could get q letter of recommendation from native of the cherry blossom kingdom. She is great and in dignity and fcrociousness of looks. equals any robbcr baron of old
 The Mikado's attendants are the little misses Eleanor and Mary IIu lett and Ruth Burtis and Marion Pas COG. They sing "A Japanese Sailor Lad" and do dear little dance and simply win the hearts of every one of their auditors.
 The Japanese dance by Mrs. ID. F. ] Heard and Miss Abbie Pickrell. isl graceful and pretty and with the re- mainder of the company grouped about the stage in becoming attitudes. | makes a charming scene. These two ladies dance before his majesty the | Mikado as gracefully as if their rice and saki depended upon their sup | pleness and agility.
 An umbrella scene completes the | operetta. Without doubt the ladies | will have as large an audience Sat urday afternoon at the matinee per formance as they had last evening.