Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - Pans Pipers Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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ACT III ScenesCafe du Chat Noir. Wreaths of smoke and gobs of food cover all possible scenery. In this camouflage sits the hero, Eddie Smith, with consummate passion he sings, Pm All Alone with Rose- Marie? This ordeal over, Marie enters. Eddie, the Conservatory Don Juan, tries to exert his charms on Marie, the Conservatory Donna Juanita. She is pliant, but not altogether manageable. She just begins to sing the aria, HEddie Is So Edifying , when Jordan, the men- tor enters. He is suspicious, but cautious. He decides . to avert catastrophe and asks in hisedeepest baritone, ttHave you anything you havent, and havent you any- thing you have? She removes from Eddie and answers, ttYes, sir, no, sir, I can make it for you, sir . Eddies looks malignant, which after all does not improve his unusu- ally heroic face. During this malignancy, enters Tootsie. the sensational Spanish Spitfire. She lights a bright red Benson and Hedges, takes out her private dagger, ogles Jordan playfully. He is adamant. Not abashed she prods Eddie with her dashing orblets. Faithless is Eddie, despite Marie's later fulminations of which he is sure. There follows a dance, uDillydallying With Tootsie . Marie appears again. A smothered HBy Golly!H from Tootsie. She takes her knife in her teeth, throws her rose at Marie and the duel is on. Mr. Jordan smokes furiously to screen himself from the gOry battle. Eddie, vicious vacquero that he is, looks on contemptuously. He sings to both of them, HBite! Bite! I Love You Only . The populace enters. There is a grand fray. All the Conservatory girls show their technique. A bolt from heaven razes the entire scene. Mr. Jor- dan is left smoking. CURTAIN Page 175

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ACT II SceneeThe Baronial Hall of the Conservatory. Timets a. m. Cast- The Mob, bacon-fed, awaiting the approach of Doom talias SpachL Ricardo Soteldo, the Pischnador, nonchalantly sup- porting the massive white pillar. Betty, the heroine twrapped in bliss and her latest Jenny creatiom gazes with soulful look at the Great Pisch. Enter Waldina, the Soubrette, her eye spitting Sara- sate gleams, one of which hits Ricardo, who rushes to her side. Exit the two-madly seeking the Cage for the days supply of Spearmint. Betty, dissolved in tears, looks wildly about and dis- covering at that moment the fair Edouard, himself no mean Pischnador, casts herself into his arms, as she sings the great Aria of the Opera: Eddie, Eddie me boy, me boy! Life has for me lost its joy, its joy, But youtll make as good a toy, a toy, As that naughty Ricardo! Curtain drops-Heard in the distance the wailing of the victims of Doom DOHMHFR Me LammHSol! Page 17.6

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ACT IV SceneqCampus at five minutes of twelve. A11 is dank dark and dreary, except the actor. A chug in the orchestra and a blue and yellow motor appears. tNote-Jirst introduction of automobile in Grand Operai . Various windows open to find out whose and whence the car. There is apparently only one occupant, but close scrutiny discloses two, Ernest and someone who belongs to his arm. Whispers in the Windows as to Who this someone is. Ernest hears the Whispers and the two occu- pants become definitely two. Gasps of satisfaction from the orchestra. With a roar of octaves up, down and around, Fannie VSchonmuller swirls in. Pieces of eight from the win- dows . Fannie takes out her pocket piano and plays the ten-paged Lisztitizky Octave Etude in the three minutes before she must leave her languishing partner. He is. to say the least, amazed. He Wraps the octaves prepar- atory to putting them in his files, entitled uSouvenirs from lady pianists . Another lady pianist appears. She leans upon a blond pianistis arm and sings a lovely aria My Brahm- sian Carl, My Little Petruchkah. The girl steps inside before she is recognized. Carl modestly retires but not before some looks of longing are cast at him from the windows. And finally the hero appears. Rubin Phillips in all his glory carrying an enormous violin and cavorting with Bernice, his elective aiiinity. He does not know that far, far away in Dothan is another who has the ladyis heart all packed, sealed and stamped. He sings, ttBernice, will you berceuse me to sleep . She answers, Gwen yo' pot Rube . She cioses him up in his violin case and rolls him home. - Several more little intimities, and it is two seconds of twelve. A great rush for Mr. Owen. The lights go out. All is dark and dreary. CURTAIN Page 176'