The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-25
North Side News
PRESENT OPERA
North Topeka Young People
Will Give Entertainment.
Will Play at Tecumseh, Perry,
Menoken and Topeka.

Next week seventeen North Topeka
young people will present the opera
Sylvia" the most pretentious musical
and dramatic entertainment presented
by Topeka young people in several
years. The music is by w. Rys-Her-
bert, the words by Maude Elizabeth
Inch. 1t is in two acts and the per-
Torrance lasts two hours.
The scene of the opera is laid in
England in the Eighteenth century,
and contrasts the court and country
life of the times. The cast has been
working steadily all summer to make
the affair a success.
The songs are attractive, and there
are four effective chorus numbers
for the choruses of Farm Lads, Farm
Girls. and Haymakers. with a Grand
Finale number.
The cast OF the opera is as follows;
The Prince-Orville Diffenderfer,
baritone; Sylvia-Irene McQuilkin,
soprano, Sir Bertram deLacy-Ralph
Gabriel tenor; Betty-a country girl
Inez Lancaster, alto; William, an hon
est farmer, Lawrence Bailey. Other
persons having parts in the opera are:
Sybil Bigham, Rollena Sweangen, Lois
Wright, Inez McQuillSin, Hazel Camp
bell, Helen Wheaton. Helen Bridon,
Laurence Plummer, Burton Skinner
Ralph Bayse, John Skinner. Roy Case
beer. Mrs. A. E. Seal has done prac-
tically all the work of organizing.
training and coaching the affair.
The plot of the story is entertaining
and clever. 1t involves the we'll known
principle that no one is satisfied with
his or her lot in life. Sylvia, the
court lady doesn't care for cavaliers,
but has a partially for farmer boys
Betty, country lass, doesn't like sons
of the soil, but is much interested in
court gentlemen. They agree to
change costumes and characters, and
interesting complications develop.
The opera will be presented at Te-
cumseh, Perry, and Menoken next
week, before appearing in Topeka. 1t
school in North Topeka the follow
ing week, and later on the south side.
Boy Found On Road
Friday afternoon at o'clock a
farmer named True from Perry, in
crossing the Melan bridge going south,
found an 11-year-old boy lying un-
conscious in the roadway. bicycle
lay nearby. passing motor car
stopped, took the youth into the ton
neau and carried him to the office of
Doctor Willard on North Kansas ave-
nue.. In a few minutes the boy re-
vived sufficiently to tell that he lived
on Evelyn street. He could not tell
his name and he was unable in his
dazed condition to say how the acct
dent occurred. A big bump on the
side of the head was his only injury.
The motorists, who did not give
their names drove off with the lad
in an attempt to find his home 1t is
thought that he either ran into the
curbing, or was thrown to the pave
ment by passing motor car. Doctor
Willard did not think the injury seri-
Gus.
Church Notices.
Kansas Avenue Methodist. j. E.
Scheer, pastor. From 10 to 11:45
o'clock there will be at combined Sun
day school and preaching service
Epworth League at 6:45, intermediate
at 7, and union service at the Chris
tan church at o'clock. Dr. J. P
Hicks will preach.
East Indianola Community church
Frank d. Jackson, pastor. Morning
service at II, theme. THE Hope of a
Better World" Endeavor at Z, topic
Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as
ThyseIf." Harold Rude, leader.
At the Central Avenue Christian
| church there will be a special tenn
perance program at the Endeavor
hour Subject, Thou Shalt Love Thy
will be given as follows:
Song-'Al Hail the Power of Je-
sus' Name"
Prayer.
Quartet-"s Somebody's Boy"
Saved" Mrs. Dan Dib-
BILE.
Court Scene-King Alcohol, Mr..
Cigarette and Mr.. Pool Hall will be
tried before jury. William Oliver
will represent King Alcohol, L. H.
Thomas, Mr.. Cigarettes and j. c.
Pontius, Mr.. Pool Hall. They will
describe the good they are doing in
the world. Georgia Mitchell. Mabel
Jones and Fred Coffman win tell
them individually what poor speci-
mems they are
| The pastor, ]. Herbert Jones. will
give talk, and the quartet will sing,
Tho Your Sins Be as Scarlet"
! Social and Personal.
Shelley Sills, a North Topeka bow
| IN the engineers corps at Fort Riley,
| Is nome for a few days on a furlough
Lawrence Mcfarland and s. E. Nc
f1rland went to Kansas City today
on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Park V KimbaIl. of
| Halleyvllle, Okla, left for their home
/ today They were in North Topeka to
| attend the funeral of Mr.. Kimball 5
| father.
A NJ. Petro, the Druggist.-Adv.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ed kensinger are
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. d. Bridge
| Dr. c. H Thompson will spend the
weekend in Lawrence and Oskaloosa
Officer Kennedy has been in Kansas
City for the last week, where he was
| called by the death of a sister.
Amity lodge No. 231, K P, meets
Monday evening at the hall on North