Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-04-17
Delightful 0peretta.
Big Crowds Hear Indian Maid
ans in "Enast of the Red Corn"

ems in Feast of the Red Corn
The people of this vicinity had an
opportunity last week to hear the Girl
Glee Club of the Thurmont High School
in the delightful Indian Operetta, entitl-
ed the Feast of the Red Corn.
The story woven in the opera Is that
Queen Weeda Wanta and her maidens
meet once year in a secluded glen to
celebrate The Feast of the Red Corn.
The one who finds the first red ear OF
corn tells the old squaw, Sorceress, her
dearest wish. The Queen is very eager
to find the red ear because she wishes to
get news of the King, absent at the wars
in the North from whom no word has
been received for year. The old squaW
has called on the Gods of the Four Winds
and she declares that no wish will be
granted because someone has committed
a grievous offense. Iupee Light, the
Q!een's younger sister, is suspected.
She has been guilty of the terrible
offense of tying war feathers on the
sacred stuffed bear. AS lmpee Light
tells of her queer fancies, the ghosts OF
dead trees rush in, dance, and then dis
appear. The Queen lGlls her children to
sleep. The squaw weaves a spell and
puts the whole company to sleep.
lmpee Light has merely pretended to
be asleep AT dawn she rouses the maid
ems and tells them the storyofThe Three
Little Bears. At the Queens suggestion
they go for IA canoe ride Left alone,
the Squaw sings her song of Sorrow.
The shades around her take form and
dance the Flaming Arrow Dance.
This is interrupted by the return of the
Queen and the maidens, who are hysterl-
cal over the drowning of the Queen
children, Fudgee, Pudgee and Wudgee
and Of lmpee Light. The children's
bodies are recovered and brought in on
stretchers. The Indian maldens lament
covering their eyes in grief. Meanwhile
the children who have been playing dead
Jump up and laugh at the maidens-eX-
planning how they upset their canoe in
hallow water and kept their heads above
water under the canoe. lmpee Light
rushes in to enjoy the joke. But the
Queen insists that Impee Light saved
the chldren's lives and that, therefore,
the Four Winds will surely be appeased
and hearken to the maidens. This time
the Squaw invokes the winds with sue
cess. The Queen finds the Red Ear, and
in answer to her wish, sees vision of
her King, alive, well, and on the way
home. The Feast is progressing gaily
as the curtain falls.
The cast is as follows:
Weeda Wanta, Queen of the Wanta
tribe, Ethel Amman; lmpee Light, her
younger sister, Coils Barnes; FUDGE.
Thelma Wisotzkey; Pudgee, Caroline
Rouzer; Wudgee, Gertrude Creager;
Old Squaw, Sorceress of the tribe,
Helen Root; Solo Dancer, kathyrn Firor.
First Chorus, kathyrn Firor, Virginia
Eyster, Katherine O'Toole, Agnes Joy,
Mabel Wilhide, Elizabeth Seton, Eliza
beth Daugherty. Aveta O'Toole, Dorothy
Beachley, Kathyrn Flory.
Second Chorus, Mae Rowe, Dorothy
Zentz, Ruth Emenheiser, Audrey Wolfe,
Margaret Brown, Naomi Ridenour,
Margaret Zimmerman, Adeline Roddy,
Margaret Dorsey. Rae Hauver.
Dancers, Margaret Zimmerman, Agnes
Joy, Elizabeth Daugherty, Elizabeth
Seton, Virginia Eyster, Katherine Flory.
Miss Ethel Amman, as soloist, was
particularly attractive, and her singing
much admired by the large audiences.
No better a person could have been
chosen for the character, lmpee Light,
than Miss Coils Barnes, and Miss Helen
Root, as Sorceress of the Tribe made
you feel as though witches had you sure.
Miss kathyrn Firor as solo dancer, re-
ceived an abundance of applause. The
three little "1njuns" told in very pleas
ing song of all the bad things lmpee
Light did.
The decorations on the stage and cos
tunes were true to Indian style-a great
amount of hard work having been done
to make such an elaborate showing.
The attendance the first evening was
very coed, rain interfering with the pat
ronage to great degree the second even