Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-05-29
CLOSING EXERCISES At
SCHOOL FOR BLIND
VIII Be Held Thursday Even
ing, June |, at First
Christian Church

The exercises for the closing of the
school year of the Oregon State school
for the Blind will be held Thursday
evening, June !, at the First Christian
church, under the direction of E. T.
Moores, superintendent. The program
is divided into two parts, the first, a
floral eantata, f"The Brownies Whis-
pers," and the second scenes from
"Mid Summer Night S Dream" The
following gives a general idea of the
| evenings entertainments:
First part-The Brownies Whispers,
a Floral Cantata-Character of the
Cantata:
The Brownies.
The Flowers.
The Raindrops.
| The Sunbeams.
The Gardner.
His Daughter.
| Synopsis-The gardner has received
an order to decorate a fine mansion
near by with flowers from his beautiful
garden but is sorely troubled and per-
picked because he has not been told
the nature of the festive occasion and
fears that he cannot do himself credit,
while working at so great disad-
vantage. His daughter comes to his
aid by assuring him that she will try to
solve the mystery, and in the meantime
she tries to help her father by calling
before him the flowers of his garden.
This plan only adds to his perplexity,
for all of the flowers are lovely.
In the second part, the Brownies talk
over the matter among themselves and
find that one of their number already
knows the secret Soon they all have
discovered the cause of the mysterious
order. The daughters efforts in that
direction proving vain, she falls asleep
in utter WEAKNESS. The flowers find
her asleep and sing to her q lullaby.
The Brownies join them and sing to
her softly the secret she would know.
Awaking suddenly, she finds herself
alone and remembers the dream. She
tells her father that the occasion for
his mysterious order, is the birthday of
little child So, with pleasure he
takes all his flowers to the mansion to
grace the festive occasion.
Interlude.
]. Piano duet--II Verdi
Ellen Fusion, Frieda Mauer
2. SOng-Harkl Hark The Lark.
! ...........-................. Schubert
Mildred Searles
8. Duet (piano and organ)-Andnnte
Cantabile ................ TschaikOwsky
Wendell Helm, T. S. Roberts
Second Part.
Midsummer Nights Dream, taken
from Acts I, II, III, ~. Characters;
0berOn, King of the FAIRIES.
Titania, Queen of the FAIRIES.
Puck, OF Robin GoOdfellow.
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mus
tarseed fairies.
Bottom, the weaver.
Flute, bellows-mender.
Ounce, carpenter.
Snug, joiner.
i Snout, tinker.
i Starveling, tailor
SynOpsis-The play opens with {
scene between Nick Bottom, the clown
and his friends, who are to prepare
comedy to be acted at the wedding OF
the Duke, which is to take place IN &
day or two.
The scene then shifts to the fairie:
in the woods. A disagreement takes
place between the fairy king and the
fairy queen for the possession of the
little changeling.boy, whose mother haC
been Titania's friend
\ Oberon sends for Puck, his chief
counsellor, to come to his aid. He has
Puck fetch him the flower which maids
call 'q4ove in Idleness;" the juice OF
which, viii make one dote upon the
first live thing he sees upon awaking
Oberon then softly steals near Titdnia
and drops some Of the Lovejuice on her
eyehds. In the meantime, he has
transformed Bottom into an Ass
Titania, rousing up, sees Bottom and
straightway falls in love with him.
Oberon, having his wish granted
takes pity on Titania S dotage and by
the use Of another flower restores hel
TO her natural senses.