The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-06-11

Hayes Bickford. Thurston Larswsy,
Lawrence Schetky, Gertrude Stanton,
Florence BrOsius, Ruth Harris, Ella Me-
Donald and Esther Husbands. Musical
and vaudeville numbers will be inter.
spersed between the four acts Of the
piece, which will round out an even
ings program Of exceptional merit.
The greatest of all American quar-
tets, the Ad club quartet, will appear
in an extensive program of popular Sc
lections on the night of July 3. assisted
by Mrs. Ralph Root and the chautau-
qua orchestra. The only deviauons
from the popular music on this occasion
will be the trio from Faust" between
Mrs. Root, Mr.. Whipp and Mr.. Hoose,
and the big finale of last years chau-
tauqua THE Sixtette," from Lucia.
The latter will have the added feature
Of orchestral accompaniment, and with
the powerful voices Of Mrs. Root and
the members Of the Ad Club quartet,
it should be a rendition worth going
miles to hear. 1t is safe to say that
nothing like it has ever been heard in
Hood River before.
The crowning feature OF the whole
chautauqua celebration will be The
Miksdo" on the night of July Fourth.
lhe early rehearsals indicate that this
is going to be fine production. The
entire cast and chorus are rehearsing
three nights a week, with afternoon re-
hears sails between various groups Of the
principals and everybody has gone into
II with an enthusiasm that bGspeaks a
presentation that will be a credit to
Hood River. 1t is seldom, outside of
professional productions. that an en-
semitic of such uniform strength is
found. and especially under the drec-
tion of so able conductor as }. Adrian
Epping.
The complete cast of "The Mikado"
is as follows: Pooh Bah, Otto Wede-
meyer; The Mikado, Geo. K. Wilbur
Nanki- i-Poh, Chas. N. Clarke; Ko.ko,
Arthur Clarke; Pish- Tush, Culver X.
Osgood; Yum-Yum, Mrs. Z. S. David
son; Katisha. Mrs. G. II. Sletton; Pitt
Sing, Mrs. c. .. Heulat: Peep Bo,
Miss Leila Hershner; chorus, Mes
danes Butler, Hall, Gladen, Wilbur,
Culbertson, Lathrop and Fertig, Misses
Hazel Stanton, Anne Vannet, Dorcas,
Dewitt. Mulford, Hagar, Messrs. Bart.
mess, Rand, Gibson, Gladen, Hershner,
Vaughan, l.athrop, McClain, Sinclair.
Davenport, Schrueders. Accompanist,
Miss Lillian Brock. Miss Brock will
also play the piano part with the or,
chestra on the night of the perform.
ance.
1t is planned to stage 1.-THE Mikado'
in the most sumptuous style. An en-
deavor will be made to exactly produce
japanese garden. The scene calls
for the garden of the Mikado's palace.
Messrs. Yasui Brothers, assisted by X.
Norimatsu. and other members of the
local japanese colony, have promised
to assist in decorating the stage, and
with this aid there should be no doubt
as to securing the desired result.
Every seat for THE Mikado" will be
reserved. just the same as in any first
class theatre. The auditorium will be
divided into two sections, the parquet
floor and the dress circle, perfect and
unobstructed view being secured from
any one of the 1000 seats which will &C
to make up the seating of this remark
able out door theatre. 1t is an inter
estng sight right now to see the nat
ural outlines of this theatre before any
boards are erected on il. Local people
should go up there this week and view
it before the work of construction be.
gins.