Weekly journal-miner., 1921-04-20
GE|SHA GIRLS WILL CHARM IN
 MUSICAL PLAY
Sixty Prescott Lads and Lassie Will be Seen in Operetta to Be Presented at Elks Theater Monday Evening
G'rom Fridays Daily)

i Sixty girls and boys of the seventh
 and eighth grades of the Washing
 ton school of this city will form the
 cast which gives the musical playlet
 Miss Cherry Blossom, or A Maid of Tokyo" at the Ells theater Mon
 day, April 18 at 8 p. m. Mrs. Edith
 Gatfield-Bagley yields the baton as
 musical director. The libretto is the work of Miss Sheldon, Miss OLaughln having the stage and scenic effects in charge, while the
 designing and costuming has been accomplished by the Misses Fortson
 and Cahill and Mrs. Day.
 Baby Gwendolyn Sutton appear, in a feature song-sl,it, Little Alice
 Blue-Gown," given in the second act
 of the three-act operetta Twenty
 one geisha girls lend picturesque oriental charms and color 2S from the rU. s. A., furnishing a pleasing contrast of verve and spirit to the little oriental maids.
 Opening with an overture, act l
 introduces the goisha grlsNm chorus
 followed by Miss Catherine Favour as Miss Cherry Blossom, in the song with geisha chorus, Like d Soit
 Cherry 'Petal.7 In Tokyo" a song
 by the leading man, John Henty Smith of New York, Joe Heap is
 supported by his pal, Henry Foster Jones, played by Frank Rand, a party of American men assisting ill chorus.
 | Solos with -geisha or American
 chorus, alternate with duets and trios through the operetta, the entire com
 pany closing with a grande finale triumphantly acclaiming the foihng of Kokemo, the. intriguer, who at
 tcmpts to bring up all American girl
 as if she were Japanese and marry
 her to Togo, a rich politician, only to have John Henry Smith, "born and bred New Yorker" expose his duplicity, and himself win the de- lighted Miss Cherry Blossom. Robert Martin plays Kokemo, while Arthur Davis represents Togo, the Japanese politician of high rank. Charles Shaw, Arthur Robinson and Florence Elliott appear i'll support ing characters. Forming the geisha girls chorus are: Jane Hedding, Virginia McCash, Leonita Gilardi, Frances Wicks, Eva Davis, Sally Hall, Eugenia Jennings, Roma An derson, Helen Bolden, Edith Teo- mans, Helen Bangs, Bertha Rosen- blatt, Mona Denson, Laura Keys, Flora Gilardi, Betty Kastner, Tillie Bloomberg, Byrdwa Dameron, Hazel Bosely, Helen Strom and Lillian Raitt.
 Members of the American chorus are: Helen Watson, Cleo Smith, FL len Burke, Pearl Crawford, Zona Coleman, Eunice Clark, Mary Miller, Bcrnice Fletcher, Louvicey Farmer, Florence Barnhart, Lorcna Tucker, Ruth Lamb, Katharine Borl, Anna May Goodale, Ithiel Taylor, Ray  mond Evans, Arthur LcPage, Wayne Poster, Franklin Bowen, Kenneth Lawrence Mctcalf. Damn Sherman, Billy Bork, Charles Sis son, Bruce Brucher, Charles Hartin, Bill Jenkins and William Vaughn
 This operetta has been recently staged successfully in Phoenix, and is being given with demands for its repetition ii many of the larger cities of the Ugited States. The seat sale is handled by Brisley's, reserved seats as well as general admission, providing the repleuishment of a fund which is devoted to the inter ests of the pupils attending the school.