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® ! A BIG MUSICAL COMEDY TO BE STAGED AT HIGH SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, DEC. i4TH1b '* I lie China Shop”-—oh yes, 'that'shi ; 1 lie big musical comedy to be stagedi*s | by Hall’s music department at Hallu r I rday, December 34. They say it is to | be quite different*—all Chinese yo i it* know.I Hall aspires in “The China Shop,” to d ; giu you the best thev have ever given* w* fin music. The list of capable music-* is ; ians is growing bigger every day. A d year or so ago some of the cast would i-1 have fainted in their tracks, had they *: I been told they would appear in a solo i‘-I and stellar role in an operetta or mu * *u*al comedy, Today they are proud, ffud are doing admirable work.T j Cecelia De Filippi, soprano soloist of ~ the Hall Concert Co., and well know.i e | to you, will appear as Lotus Blossom,, | the poor fisherman’s daughter. JMay-e | ing opposite her will be Albert Stef-ten, tenor, in the role of Sing Song, the prosperous merchant’s son. due Kschenbaum plays Fat Sing, the ecen-j trie old merchant. Do you remember -1 Norton Fowler, as the movie scenario e to “Dttfcy.” Well, he will take the- j part of Mr. Jugcat Karfair, a reform-* ( . •I ; er from Kentucky, U. »S. A. He goo* to China to reform the Chinese—theyhim not. He tells them they'W-‘mustn’t sneeze, they mustn’t wheeze,- j they mustn't bat an eye, they musn’t I walk, talk, eat—in fact they mustn’t| do the things they’ve done since they * j were born. Finally lie has to borrow i j money to go back to the farm, the I chickens, horses and cows in old Kentucky. The comedy element is furnish led largely by Mr. Juscat Karfair; the efforts of three belles, Jay Latham,! Mildred Greener and Ruth Blake, to ‘land” Sing Tong in their matrimonialnet, and by Mush Lust, Andrew I tenor, and incidentally % wo*mon hater. Hoy Tee Toy the chaperon I of three belles and played by Leona Heilgeist, insists beauty is only skin-Wz:' . :-V: *' - ' W ■deep, she would rather have intelligence.Do you remember Lester Van Tress, as Schuler Nan Dyck, the lunatic in ’Duley?” This time he is Chunk, the sad serious secretary of Sing Tong, a scream in his studied seriousness. Sing in “The China Shop.” Also do you j remember Clayton Beecham as Andv Gump in the minstrel last spring? So I ^ | and Lebold he plays an equally fitting d j role in “The China Shop”—that of a politician. The poor fisherman, who j *! drags his niece, Lotus Blossom, back ,I 'Ito the shanty by flic sea will be play-I el by Domenic Campeggio. 1“All in all if sounds interesting, j * doesn’t it. Tickets are out. They may he reserved at Thompson’s in Spring \ aiiey beginning December 7. Reservations for Ladd will be announced later.1l(4ttritflt;t;* ib
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Spring Valley Gazette
Spring Valley, Illinois, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1923
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