Evening star., 1926-05-02

the George Washington University
gymnasium by the Troubadours as
their first annual musical comedy.
Every item of the show is original
and Is being done by students. Dances,
costumes, music. scenery, libretto, the
Troubadours guarantee, have never
been seen or heard before. For five
months a cast and chorus of 80 stu
dents has worked hard to put on a
show that could travel with the best.
The cast is headed by Annabelle
Lloyd and Ellsworth Tompkins. the
former we'll known in amateur dra-
matics in Washington. The plot is
laid in an American college town.
Throughout are plenteous laugh lines,
especially for Ruth Newburn and Will
liam Clementson, the comedians of the
play. Sterry Waterman and Larry
Parker law students. wrote the book.
Parker was formerly stage manager
for the famous Princeton Triangle
Club.
There are IL original melodies to
Just a Kiss" most Of which were
written by Jack Hutchings, although
lola Bowden and Joanna Collins con-
tributed. Elmer Brown Is leading the
orchestra and dire ting the music.
Mary Virginia Leckie has been in
structor for the dancers and Katherine
Brown Of Cathedral School, dramatic
coach of George Washington Univer
sity, has been doing the directing.
THE Observation-Disclosures
Mascot"
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Edmund Audran's delightful comic
opera, La Mascotte" C''The Mascot'O
will be presented in Central High
Auditorium by THE Washingtonians,"
in the extravagant costumes and trap
pings of the fifteenth century, pictur-
esQue and amusing in its humor and
droll satire of the period.
"The Mascot" libretto provided Au
dram with subject to excite his Keen
est musical genius, and 1t Is said the
musical score and libretto furnished
the pattern after which the famous
cycle of Gilbert and Sullivan operas
are modelled. Leoncavallo also seems
to have consulted THE Mascot" score
freely for types both in character and
musical composition when laying out
his now famous grand opera y
Pagliacci."
Unlike the musical melange of to-
day, every one Of the 33 musical num-
bers is part and parcel of the story.
In other words, while "The Mascot
is opera In every sense or the Word,
at the same time it is filled with
comedy. The drinking songs of the
first and third acts, the Legend Of
the Mascot" the "Gobble, Gobble,
Gobble" duet, wise Men and
Learned Sages," the hunting chorus,
This Rustic Lad: :" 'Tis Know Not
Whatm when 1 See Thee" the
coaching chorus, "Oh. How Graceful;
what a Brilliant Show!" "Salterello
Behold Mer ''Knowest Thou Those
Robes" From Courtiers as They're
Passing By" and the stirring mill
tary drummer song are among the
high spots of this light opera classic.
This is the fifty eighth presenta-
ton by THE Washingtonians," under
the direction of Rollin Bond. and, it
is announced, has the finest singing
cast and the peppiest ensemble they
have ever presented. This COM
panys productions have ranked high.
Artists-several of them now appear
ing on Broadway-have been de-
veloped by this community organi-
zation under the patient and skillful
musical and dramatic direction of
Rollin and Genevieve Bond.
A new prima donna. who started
In the chorus Of this company six
years ago. will be heard in "The