The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-02-24
ROMANTIC COMEDY
1.-THE GYPSY ROVER"
DRAWS GOOD HOUSE

Replete with colorful costumes, pref
) ty love scenes, instrumental music,
solos, duets and choral numbers THE
Gypsy Rover" scored hit at Workers
Hall last evening. The romantic op-
eretta by Mary Hewes Dodge and John
Wilson Dodge was presented by the
high school Glee Club under the di-
rection of Miss Marjorie Freakes, Miss
Margaret Sullivan, assisted by Mrs.
; c. c. Rowan.
Taimi Thompson as Lady Constance
Of English nobility was cast in the
leading songster's role. She contrib
uted a group of pleasing numbers.
Walpas Koski as Rob the Gypsy
Rover, who later was identified as the
distinguished Sir Gilbert Howe, lost
! heir to the Sir Gilbert Howe estates,
was an excellent foil for the English
daughter of Sir George Martendale, an
English country gentleman, played by
! Hubert Simmons.
Mary Naretti gave winning por-
trayal of Zara, the belle of the gypsy
camp. Her lover. Sinfo, gave a splen-
|. did performance in the role of a gypsy
! robber. Esther Mcdaniel and Bruno
Bartoy as Meg and Mario, foster mo-
: ther and father of the Gypsy Rover,
added pleasing personalities to the
! production. The role of Lord Craven,
: an English fop, was assigned to Bill
t Kerrigan but on account of illness the
part was played by Dante Bartoy, who
: furnished comedy and laughs to the
operetta. Nina, second daughter of
: Sir George, and Captain Jerome of
!, the English army, played by Marga-
:. ret Souders and Matt Woodrow, fur
nished pretty love scenes in the play.
Dante Bartoy as Sir Toby Lyon, So
cial butterfly, Arams Kent as Nc
Corkle, a song publesher of London,
: and Peter Dimich, as the butler, CON
f tributed splendid performances.
The first act opened with an over.
ture, followed by vocal numbers.
The story involved Rob, who was
before the audience from the rise Of
the curtain until the end of the play
From childhood he lived among the
gypsies, thinking they were his owr
people. He fell in love with an En-
e glish girl who became lost in the for
est in the neighborhood of the gypsy
!, camp. They planned to elope but
Rob was captured and thrown into
prison. Two years later the GYPSY
Rover had established his Identity as
Sir Gilbert Howe and he was received
. into English society as man 0.
wealth and a famous composer. Lad.
:. Constance who had remained true t.
, her gypsy lover for two years, foun'
him in the drawing room of her nom
and Rob said "The good fairies hav
led me to the beautiful country afte
all, and our story, Constance, can en-
in the proper way" "They lived hap
V. PLY ever after"
The characters in the play wer
y Esther Mcdaniel, Mary Naretti, Brun
Bartoy, Angelo Bartoy, Walpas Kos
h. XII. Taimi Thompson, Hubert Simmons
Margaret souders, Matt Woodrow
Dante Bartoy, Amos Kent and Pete
t. Dimich. The gypsy girls chorus wa
composed Of Madeline Sconfenza, An
+ ma May Mallin, Helen Williams, Dor
othy Durant, Esther Durant, Lydl'
# Romersa Helen Souders, Dorothy Da
Wis, Helen McCabe, Ina Hannula, Mar
4 tha Joki, Helen EIDE. Lady Con
stances friends were Elizabeth Lar
= kin, Dorothy Fleming, Anna Ma
Mallin. Pauline Johnson, Katherln'
Il. Hays, Helen Williams, Mary Robinson
Madge Cassidy and Martha Dell. In
It, boys chorus included William 0liiei'
Finer Bowlen, William Ball, Mat
st. Woodrow, Dante Bartoy, Marcus Del
and Armas Kent. The children wer
4 Forrest Flashman,E Edna Pippinger DO
ris Mcdaniel, Paul Auvinen, Phil POI
lard and Edna Morn. Members OF tn
orchestra were Miss Margaret Sullivan
= (piano), Elizabeth Lehtola (saxo
phone), George DeBourg (violln) an
- Arvo Aho (saxaphone).
- Lamps and furniture were furnlshe'
by courtesy of Ball Furniture com
IS. pany and electrical effects by courtes'
n of George Thompson and Iheooor
lg Viers.