Putnam patriot., 1928-04-26
SIXTY PUPILS IN
 HANSEL AND GRETEL
Operetta Will Be Presented Af- ternoon and Evening Tues
 day, May l
Trade School Makes Scenery, Teach.
 ers and Pupils Costumes

Trade School Makes Scenery, Teach.
 CTS and Pupils Costumes '
 l It is very fitting that during Ma tional Music Week when schools throughout the country are having community scenes and musical enter tainments, the Junior High School pu- pills of Putnam should present the op- eretta, "Hansel and Grefel." Tuesday. May i afternoon and evening.
 There will be two separate perform ances of this operetta with two casts of characters for the principal parts. The afternoon performances will be held in the High School Auditorium at 3 o'clock, and will be for school chil- dren only. Admission to the after noon performance will be ten cents. The evening performance will be given at eight o'clock Tickets are now on sale by all of the members of the cast.
 There are about sixty members of the cast, and the children have worked hard to make this beautiful operetta a 1 finished performance. Scenery has been constructed by the State Trade School and costumes have been made under the direction of teachers and others. The operetta is being given under the supervision of Miss Lconora Dougan, supervisor of music of the public schools. Miss Dougan is assist ed by all of the teachers in the Junior High School.
 A brief synopsis of the operetta to- gether with complete list Of charae- ters follows.
 Operetta "Hansel and Gretel." an adaptation, by Berta Elsmith, of the famous fairy opera by Humperdinck. Hansei and Gretel are the children of a poor broom binder and his wife. Left at home, with tasks to do, while the mother is away at work. the chil- dren spend their time in play. The mother returns, and finding the work lnndone, in anger sends the children to the woods for strawberries. and eau tions them not to return until the bas- ket is filled. When the father comes home, and finds the children gone, he is worried, and tells the mother about an awful cookie witch who lives in the Black Forest. and wildly rides broom stick over hill and dale, and with magic cookies lures children to her hall where in an oven they are baked into cookie children.
 The frightened parents rush out to find Hansel and Gretel.
 The children wander into the forest and lose their way. Night comes on. and they cling to each other in fear. But the sandmen come and bring sleep and forgetfulness. Their slumber Is guarded by fourteen angels. When morning dawns the children are aston ished to see near by, a house made of cookies and tarts. They advance to examine the house and taste the cook ies, when the witch appears. She seizes Hansel and locks him in a cage, intending to feed and fatten him. Gretel is round and plump and exactly suits her taste, SO she plans to get her to look in the oven. to see if her cook ies are baking. and then shove her in and thus add another to her cookie children. But Gretei pretends to be stupid, and must have the witch show her just how to look in the oven. When the witch puts her head in to show Gretel. the children shove her in and shut the door. The cookie children are set free and joy reigns.
 Characters for matinee:
 Peter. the binder of brooms, AZ meron Hayes; Gertrude, his wife, Elizabeth Winslow; Hansel and Gret- el. their children, Herbert Johnson and Pauline Sherman; the Cookie Witch, Marguerite Wentworth.
 For evening:
 Peter. the broom binder. Almeron Hayes; Gertrude. his wife, Pauline Rawley; Hansei and Gretei, their chil- dren. Page Jenkins and Dorothea Me Adams; the Cookie Witch, Carolyn Morse.
 Angels - Chrysse Anas, Helen Brown, Helen Evans. Evelyn Goth. reau, Beatrice Harrington, Astrid Hermanson. Rose Holgerson. Phyliss Knapp, Leah Lucas. Hester Miles Mill dred Rosenwald, Martha Thayer. Beth Thompson, Gertrude Yarock.
 Sandmen and Dewmen-Clihord Mayhew. Philip Wheaton, Milton Payne, James Shepard.
 Witches-MarVare Brassard. Helen Brassard, Maleda Butler, Isabelle Ulkeja.
 Chorus
 Sopranos - Clara Adams. Doris Alberg, Helen Brassard, Margaret Brassard. William Brisson, Maleda Butler. Leonta Carver, Clara Gould, Sarah Hall. Beatrice Harrington, As trid Hermanson. Rose Holgerson, Eliza Jackson, Louise Jackson, WI liam Johnson. Israel Kaminsky, Phy- liss Knapp, Lea Lacas, Dorothy Mans field. Ada Morse. Josephine Seveze, Evelyn Stark, Martha Thayer, Harry Weiss. Philip Wheaton, Gertrude Yarock
 Altos-Chrysse Anas, Leah Bird, Lillian Bird, Cemerrill Bosworth. Dor othy Bradford. Helen Evans, Edwin Hall Agnes Campagne, Clifford May hew. Hester Miles. Eleanor Moriarty, Elmer Paquin. Milton Payne, Mildred Rosenwald; Helen Shaima, James Shepard, Beatrice Swanson, Beth Thompson. Raymond Tourtellotte, Isa- belle Uikeia. Clement Zotta.
 Cookie Children--Lester Arnold, Wilbur Bruce. Barbara Lown, Char lotte McCulloch, Edward Nichols, liar old Nichols. Ruth Tetreault, Alice Var I fl-Is.e Muttta4 Wood