Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-04-14
Boys and Girls Glee Clubs
To Stage the Opera as
Coming Spring
Event.
MISS COOK LEADER
Carl Quist, Fort Dodge Or
chestra Leader, to As
sist in Production.

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performances he had ever seen,'' was
the way Carl Quist of Fort Dodge, well
Z known orchestra leader and dramati.
zeE characterized his impressions gain
ed at first rehearsal of the coming
school opera, HI. NJ. $. Pima fore, Thurs
day evening.
''PinafOre" is the ambitious project
Of the Boys and Girls Glee clubs an
nual spring offering. under the direc-
ton of Miss Rosalind Cook, public
school music supervisor, which will be
given ut the armory opera house May
and 3. The cast, which has but re-
Gently been chosen, is of exceptional
merit and includes the following high
school students:
The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, X
G. b., first lord Of the admiralty
gar Atkinson.
Captain Corcoran, commanding II.
NJ. $. Pianfore-Le Bourne.
Ralph Rackstraw, able seaman,
Mary Wiese.
Dick Deadeye, able seaman-W Wallace
Hampton.
Bill Bobstay, boatswain-C Chester
Miller
4. Tom Tucker. midshipma tel Donald
Fear.
Bob Beckett, carpenters mate-Ralph
Sweazey.
Josephine. the captains daughter
Lennadore Berg.
Hebe, Sir Joseph's first cousin
Leona Teget
Little Buttercup, Portsmouth bum
boat woman-Laura BOysen.
First lords sister, his cousins, his
aunts, sailors, marines, etc.-members
of the Boys and Girls Glee clubs.
Her Majesty's Ship, Pnafore,' or,
'..The Lass that Loved Sailor" was
written W w. s. Gilbert, composed by
Sir Arthur Sullivan and presented first
on May %, 1878, at the Opera Com
-idue, London, running for 700 nights
with an enthusiasm probably never be-
fore equalled.
The action begins on the quarter
deck of the ''PinafOre" which is lying
in the harbOr of Portsmouth. The sail
iors are busily cleaning brass work,
splicing ropes and engaging in other
like tasks. The first important actor
to appear is Little Buttercup (Laura
81 h,,,,
who suggests at once in characteristic
fashion, that under "a round and rosy
exterior may he lurking canker-
worm. Dick Deadeye, (Wallace Hamp-
tom the william, comes on board and
is followed by the fine young sailor.
Ralph Rackstraw, MARY Weise), who
is signing over the fact that he loves
lass above his station, the lass IN
question being Josephine I4ennadore
Berg), the daughter of Captain Cor
coran leslie Bourne) of the pima
FORE
The captain has ambitions for his
daughter and is deeply grieyed that
the young lady docs not Tickle kind
~" to the attentions Of Sir Joseph
Porter, X. c. 3. Edgar Atkinson).
The fair. Josephine arrives to confess
to her father that she loves a common
sailor but assures him that her pride
will prevent his ever knowing it, Sir
Joseph accompanied by "all his sisters
and his cousins and his aunts' comes
to press his suit.
An abundance of satire directed
against the British navy, snObs. the
national self-complacency and other
important institutions is wrapped up in
the character of Sir Joseph. who early
explains that a British sailor is any
mans equal-excepting his So runs
two acts of delightful scenes. The
music is so singable that everyone
hearing the opera will be hIlmming.
whistling or repeating its clever phras-
es the day after, as in the days when
the comic opera was produced over
the country years ago.
Mr.. Quist, who is a very fine violin
ist has been secured to direct the Or
chestra, bringing a clarinet, cornetist
and drummer from Fort Dodge, which
will be augmented by Webster City
musicians. Miss Bessie Stlverson
presides at the piano. The glee clubs
number. about sixty voices.
II. NJ. S. Pinafore is without doubt
the biggest thing ever undertaken by
the Webster City schools.
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