The Washington herald., 1919-04-05
TECH OPERA CLUB ACTORS
PLAY TO CROWDED HOUSE
Central High School Auditorium Filled for
Wizard Of the Nile" Performance by
Students of McKinlev 81

In an auditorium crowded to its ut
the Tech Opera Club of the Mckinley
Manual Training School last night pre-
sented the Wizard of the Nile" at
the Central High School.
Brilliant in coloring, in costumes of
the Far East, and in Oriental dances,
the opera well pleased those who had
braved a stormy night to De present.
: Those in the character parts and In
the large brightly costumed chorus
are present or former students at the
Mckinley High School
Those in Cast.
The following had prominent cast
parts: .rN
Kibosh, Persian magician making
a professional tour of Egypt, Stephe;,
Fegan; Abydos. his apprentice, Mar
garet Hughes; Ptolemy, King or
Egypt, Sigmund C. Sachs; Simoona,
Ptolemy's second wife, Mary Lang
ley; Cleopatra, Princess who knows
naught of love. Gladys I. Price: Ptar-
migan, Cleopatra's music teacher,
Harry /. Clarkson; Cheops. the royal
weather bureau, William Santelmann,
jr.; Obeliska, captain Of the Amazons.
Irma Beaver; Netocris, lieutenant OF
the Amazons, Grace L. Carnahan;
Merza, first maid of honor to Cleo
patra, Anna CARRIER.
Members of the chorus were:
Amazons-Capt. Beaver, Lieut.. Car
nahah. Jane Cornwell, Frances Jack
son. Florence Weckerly, Hazel Ben
net, Gertrude Gensler. Gladys Clark
son. Katharine Richardson, Grace
Mulligan, Katharine Pfeiffer. Elsie
Fuhrman, Thelma Smith. Alice Ayres,
Ruth Dent, Ruth Hammond. Delma
Jenkins and Mary Quick.
Maids OF Honor-Mary Clark, Mary
Marshall, Mary Chamberlain, Grace
Robinson. Dorothy Payne, Dorothy
Pitt, Helen Hall, Miriam Baturin.
Marion Blanchard and Ruth Fuhr-
man. 80
Pages-Anna Allen. Constance AL
len. Margaret Bennit. Zelda Brown.
Thelma Ollie, Harrie Enoch. Cath
arine Ferns, Margaret Hudson, Doro-
thy Yost Loretta Lanigan, Amelia
Marshall, MAZDA Melchior. Kathleen
O'Brien. Romnna Raley. Florence
Richardson. Gladys SaltIman, Kath-
arine Snyder. Ruth Terrett. Dorothy
Wash, Ruth Wells. Helen Woodward,
Ruth Russell. Georgia Collins, Louise
Crossman and Elsa F'inckel.
Dancing girls-Elizabeth Rich
mond. solo: June Zimmerman, Ell
linor Worthington. Jeanne Leroy,
Alice Satterly, Babette Everitt,
Grace Roberds. Ruth Smith, Annie
Kay. Ruth Grimes, Elizabeth Park
er. Thelma Landergren, Theresa
Roth. Sue Dorsett. Frances Mitchell,
Sabra Harry, Virginia Sanderson,
Dorothy Eggleston. Lucille Hardi-
son, Winifred Seckinger. Gladys
Conway.
Water carriers-Gladys Steele.
Alma Lawless, Grace Shipman.
Eleanor James. Ruth Linger. Violet
Marshall. Louise Sullivan, Dorothy
Sherry.
Citizens-Joe Bernstein. George
Burton. Paul Bauer, James Barnard,
T. &. Bryan. Ralph Brown NJ. f.
Caskey. Douglas Clephane, w. r.
Chamberlain, n r. Deck, Vernon
Frankhouser. Briscoe Gray. Charles
Hall, Harry Hanson, Y. d. Har-
baugh, ]. 3. Harmon. Laurence Har-
ry, Ernest Holmes. Robert Howard,
Il. 3. Irani. Leonardo Alexander, L.
F. MeIchior. w. II. Price. w. w.
Richardson, Hyman Sachs. Fred
Schultz. Sam Scrivener. Jack Van
Buskirk. Joseph Wells. w. r. Win
ner. Wright. Max Walten.
Stonecutters-First tenors, Hardy
Burgess. Philip Clerke. Alvin Parker
John Hichew. Walter Hiltabidle, Rich
ard Blackstone; second tenors Lewis
White. Thomas Reamy, Norman
Hampton. Telfair Dorset, Alfred Bis
sert, Granville Guide: basses. John
White, John Gross. LorinG Graham.
William Bruce, Paul Jeffery, Paul De-
loc. Glenn Jones. Louis Swingle,
Perry HUFF.
Royal Guards-L. Naramore, c
Sener, c. Pickens. ]. Tolson.
Egyptian Deities-C. Derrick, G. A.
Wick. T. c. Wood
Headmen-I. Chatelain. c. McNulty
Poicemen-A. Rippey, w. Bruce
Nobles-A. Parker. Earl Kirchner.
Slaves-C. WOLF. Alvin Dye, George
Irelan, Edw. Brause.
School Orchestra.
The Tech Orchestra under the di-
rectiOn of Dore Walten received a
large part of the credit for the fin
ished manner in which the opera
score was rendered. The personnel
was as follows:
Pianist. Paul w. Fishbaugh; vio-