The Republican., 1922-05-04
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL TO
PRESENTPLAY ATOAKLAND
Revue of 1922 Will Come to the
Maryland Theatre Under Di-
rectiOn of Miss Morgan.

May 5, and present their annua.
musical event, the Normal Revue OF
1922, at the Maryland Theatre under
the auspices of the Oakland High
School.
The production was presented at
the Lyric Theatre, Frostburg, on the
evening of April goth and 21st by AZ
young ladies, all students at the Nor
NAL School and their show. which was
for the benefit of the school, was the
crowning event of musical prepa"
ration and artistic endeavor under
the able direction of Miss Gertrude L.
Morgan.
The Forthcoming trip to Oakland
will be made for the purpose OF ac-
quainting the high school pupils and
patrons, as we'll as the general public
with the splendid results obtained in
the music and expression department
of the Normal School. There is con-
siderable discipline and instruction
attendant upon the preparation of a
play as elaborate as the Revue of
1922 and the splendid work of the
Normal girls the two evenings they
appeared at the Lyric Theatre, Frost
burg, is now a matter of great pride
to the school and the community.
The performers this year include
many girls who, although never ap-
pearing on the stage before, were
taught to infuse into their dramatic
performance a great deal of ANNA
ton. They wore beautiful and costly
costumes and executed their dances
with a gracefulness that is not
always found on the professional
stage, much less among amateurs.
The Revue will be presented at
Oakland just as originally produced
in Frostburg. An emphatic success
of the Frostburg appearance of the
Normal Girls were the charming and
sprightly chorus numbers in which
oriental costumes We'd with japanese
gowns and spring frocks adorned
with a profusion of blossoms to en-
hance the youthful beauty of the en-
bryo school teachers.
There were several of these num-
bers which included 'men" and the
girls who took the male parts elected
round after round of applause, par
ticularly in the second evening of the
show when they introduced some de
cidedly new numbers.
A noteworthy feature Of the per-
formance is the orchestra which is
made up exclusively of Instrumental
ist, who attend the Normal School.
Their two opening numbers under
leadership of the inimitable Datha
Thomas, violinist, played with a snap
and precision that placed the audience
in a pleasing mood before the cur
tain went up on the first act of the
play.
So uniform was the eXcellency of
the entire program as given in Frost
burg that comparisons of the various
characters and choruses would be in
vidious.
The principal characters of the
play are Miss Datha Thomas as
Mishka, a young Russian lad of Is
years with ambition to become
great violinist; Miss Elizabeth Pearce
as "Fetchke," young Russian maid
who is the sweetheart of Mishka,
Miss Irene Brown as Yankel the ia
ther of Mishka; Miss Margaret Han
son and Miss Jessie Menlocka as Amer
lean dance promoters; Miss Anna
Clarke johnson as Marise, friend of
Fetchke's; Miss Hazel Englehart as
Al Mason, lately of the follies, and
Bradley, the butler, Miss Bernice
Winner.
The soloists are Misses Adriel Pen
ault, Hazel Englehart, Datha Thorn
as, Margaret Price, Margaret Win
ner, Elizabeth Pearce, Anna Clarke
johnson and Misses Pearce, Mayer,
Winner, O'Rourke, Richards and Pen
ault in "If A Wish Could Make 1t
So," from "Tickle Me-"
The same elaborate stage settings
used in Frostburg will be brought to
Oakland and the same electrical eff
fects will be used. The trip from
Frostburg will be made in motor cars.
The girls taking part in the play
aside from those mentioned above
are:
Colonial Girls-Eloise Best, Eliza
beth Schramm, Gladys Stanton, Emma
Bradburn, Catherine Cosgrove, Eliza
beth Pearce, Nellie O'Rourke.
Follies Girls-Grace Hershberger,
Mae Conner, Dorothy Dillon, Pearl
Fresh.
Orientals- Margaret Price. Anna
Clarke johnson, Eloise Best, Elizabeth
Schramm, Gladys Stanton, Nellie
O'Rourke, Emma Bradburn, Cathe-
rine Cosgrove, Vera Atkinson, Mar
guerite Wilson.
Japanese Girls Margaret Winner,
Mildred Close, Isadora Casey, Thelma
Sandbower, Mildred Love, Ora Sci
farth, Pearl Porter, Frances Athey,
Helen Kuhn.
Flower Girls-Pearl Fresh, Evelyn
Robinette, Dorothy Dillon, Dorothy
Acke, Elithorpe Welch, Mae Conner,
Grace Hershberger, Leona Richard
son, Elizabeth Pearce. Emma Rich
ards, Catherine Cosgrove, Emma
Bradburn, Nellie O'Rourke, Gladys
Stanton, Elizabeth Schramm, Eloise
Best.
The Boys Minnie Walters, Alice
Lewis, Margaret Hanson, Irene
Brown. Anna O'Rourke. Jessie Mer-
Thacb.
Girls included in the ensembly not
already mentioned: Misses Myrtle
Dean, Lolo Browning, Mary Harper,
Catherine Joyce, Emmasslann, Rebec-
ca Stottler, and Mary V6lk.
The orchestra: Violins, Misses