The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-03-23
YOKOHAMA MAID" FRIDAY

The High School Boys and Girls
Glee Clubs will give their formal
spring program, assisted by members
of the college orchestra, Friday eve
ming, March oath, in the new high
school gym. They will present
Yokohama Maid" a Japanese comic
operetta in two acts, by Arthur Penn.
The story Of Yokohama Maid"
opens in Kybosho, a suburb of Yoko-
hama, where the guests are assembled
to celebrate the sixteenth birthday of
o S~ing-a-song, the daughter Of a rich
merchant who has been dead for but
a few months. The father left a will
with the terms Of which his daughter
is not acquainted. They are known,
however. to Fateddo, the Mayor of KY
bosho, and by them the latter hopes
not only 10 marry o Sing-a-Song but
Z get hold as we'll of the big fortune
her father had amassed. When o
Sing-a-Song realizes the terms of the
viii. she is in despair; for though she
has no objection to becoming a Mayor
ess, she contemplates marriage with
the cunning old Fateddo with dislike
amounting 10 aversion. She deter
mines TO find a way out of the diem
ma, If way there be. knogudi, the
Mayors secretary, is hopelessly in
love with o Sing-a-Song, whose COM
panion Kissimee, is quite as much
enamoured of Knogudi. Fateddo,
after revealing the fate" in store for
her, instructs o S~ing-a-Song to visit
the United States and complete her
education there, as he wishes the
Mayoress of Kybosho to be in all re-
spects the envy Of Japan. o Sing-a-
Song gladly accepts the opportunity,
and end of Act | sees her departure for
America, accompanied by Kissimee
and TungWaga, her old nurse.
Two years elapse and the second
act, which takes place on the day
when o Sing-a-Song is due back home
to be married to Fateddo, is laid in the
grounds of the Mayors residence.
Fateddo is beaming with satisfaction
and pleasantest of anIicipations. There
are doubts and misgivings in the
minds of all but himself. At length
o Sing-a-Song and her companions re-
turn. They are greeted enthusiastic
ally. Fateddo prepares for an imIned-
late wedding ceremony and calls upon
Knogudi to perform 1t. Knogudi re-
fuses and Fateddo undertakes the of
flee himself by virtue Of his Mayor
atty. Just as he is about to proceed
to the climax, a young American,
Harry Cortcase, appears on the scene.
He has come to Japan with o Sing-a-
Songs party, and, after explaining his
reasons, for thus suddenly intruding,
Cortcase that o Sing-a-
Song and himself are married.
Fateddo, disconnected, tries to find
comfort in the retort that the Ameri-
can has married a pauper. A pretty
argument ensues over the terms Of
the will aforesaid, and in the end,
Cortcase, shows that o Sing-a-Song
has complied entirely with all It's pro-
visions and is legally and irrevocably
his bride, retaining into the bargain
all of the wealth to which she falls
heir. Fateddo, disguised and reckless,
commits social suicide" as he calls
1t, in an amusing fashion (for the aud
~ience), and Knogudi allows himself,
with a philosophy that is humorous to
everyone but himself to be wooed and
won by the delightfully."- persistent
Kissimee.
The cast is as follows:
Takasi, a Herald. =. Edward Atkinson
Muvon Yu, a policeman ...........
Donald Wilson
All No, Chinese laundryman .......
Robert Herman
Fateddo. Mayor of Kybosho .......
Reuben Benson
Knogpdi, his secretary ...........
........ ......... Paul Whitehead
Harry Cortcase. American lawyer.
....,............. Donald Carlisle
o Sing-a-Song. Japanese Heiress -.
.............. Anna Belle Nesson
Kisimee, her companion ..........