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THE GYPSY ROVER"
WAS GREAT SUCCESS

The Heppner High School chorus
covered themselves all over with
glory in the presentation on Tuesday
afternoon and evening Of the popular
operetta, THE Gypsy Rover" to
crowded houses both at the matinee
and regular performances. An es-
pecially large and appreciative aud
ience was present at the Star theater
in the evening, when the performers
appeared to fine advantage in their
brilliant and rich costumes.
The preparation of the operetta
has been going on for several weeks
under the direction Of Mrs. Bernice
Hopper, music instructor, and the
manner in which the parts were sus-
tained gave abundant proof OF their
careful supervision. This was fur
ther proved by the fact that owing
to sickness, Mrs. Hopper was unable
to appear on the stage and direct the
operetta in person at the performance
es, and the work of directing was left
to Misses Palmateer and Moore Of
the high school faculty, who helped
in the make up and did some other
necessary coaching. But the good
training the cast had received from
Mrs. Hopper enabled them to move
through the performances largely
upon their own dependence.
Miss Bernice Woodson was accom-
panist at the piano and sustained that
important part well.
Specials between acts one and two
were a flower dance by little Betty
Irwin who appeared in dainty make
up and was required to respond to
hearty encore; and a Pigmy chorus
presented by Velma Case, Leora
Devin, Coramae Crawford and Leola
Bennett. This was indeed a novelty
sketch in which Miss Case and Miss
Bennett presented a "pigmy" ap-
pearance and sang their song and
performed their dance to perfection
and brought down the house.
/ Between acts two and three was
presented piano solo by Mary Clark
who interpreted Chopin's "Troiseme
I-Ballade" in wonderful style, show
ing that she is budding into piano
soIoist of no mean ability. Miss
Clark presented the selection from
memory, and her technique is quite
remarkable. A reading, THE Debu-
tate" was given by Violet Merritt
in very perfect manner; Miss Mer-
ritt has splendid talent in this line
and she had received some good
coaching at the hands of her teacher,
Miss Moore. The Glow Worm was
sung in fine style by the girls chorus.
In the operetta proper, we should
like to compliment all and individual
ly the perfrmers, for they are deserv-
ing of all the praise we can give
them, Their parts were well and
fully sustained; many of the cast
showing exceptionally fine ability in
both singing and acting, and the Choir
uses were we'll sustained and finely
: rendered, even the little children had
their parts to perfection, and made
the gypsy camp seem a reality. The
solo work of Velma Case was of a
high order and shows that she has
made wonderful advancement in the
past couple of years, though she is
always good in the parts she takes
Mario and Sinfo were two characters
we'll sustained by Kyle Cox and Paul
Aiken, and Alvin Boyd made a good
Gypsy Rover while Allen Case
: was perfection in the character Lord
Craven, English fop, and Coramae
Crawford, as "Zara" was belle OF
the gypsy camp, and somewhat Of
a "vamp."
The financial returns to the stu
:. dent body fund were splendid and a
, neat cash balance will remain after
all expenses are cared for. The per
:, formance was an entire success.