Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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THE PIONEER Lelawala H ELAWALA, a three-act operetta based on the Legend of the Niagara, composed by the Californian, Charles W. Cadman, and containing many adopted Indian melodies besides some English Lyric passages inter¬ spersed with semi-comic dialogue, was presented by the combined glee clubs and a special orchestra on April twenty-seventh. The costumes and stage settings corresponded with the Colonial Days depicted. The plot concerned a group of Britishers who meet a tribe of Niagara Indians and become entangled in their affairs. CAST OF LELAWALA SINGING ROLES Wokomis, widower, Chief of the Oniahgahrahs . George Browning Klolowar, his son . Theodore Gorbacheff Lelawala, his daughter; maid of Niagara . Estelle Cahow Shungela, rejected lover of Lelawala . Sidney Epperson Major Wallace, commandant of a fort . Donald Bourdon Mabel, his daughter ..... Evangeline Hjort Captain Bliss, lover of Mabel . Gordon Epperson Clarinda Bond, who admires the Sergeant . Margaret Schilling Sergeant Bilks, who admires himself .,. Carroll Underwood SPEAKING ROLES Marpeetopah, medicine-man . Richard Lillard Hintola, grandmother of Lelawala .:. Lois Little Sowanas, lover of Lelawala . Elwood Howse Wacootay, an Oniahgahrah brave . Melvin Morse Wambebe, an Oniahgahrah brave . Litton Bivans Wanyeca, a romantic widow . Vera Traganza Napanee, who loves Klolowar . Naville McKenzie Eagle Eye, a famous scout . Ellis Wilkins Lord Tatler, who admires witticisms .,. Meredith Wetherell Chorus, Indian Hunters, Soldiers, Maidens . Rest of Glee Clubs THE S. J. C. MEN’S QUINTET Twenty-one

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