Bruce Knowlton Opera Co. Presents Cavalleria Rusticana MASCAGNI E. BRUCE KNOWLTON, Conductor PAUL BJORNSKOLD, Dramatic Director TURN VEREIN HALL Thursday Evening, October 18, 1928 8:15 p. m. A great radio value! only $164 Complete INCLUDING ATWATER KENT, MODEL 40 JENSEN DYNAMIC SPEAKER ATTRACTIVE CONSOLE CABINET SEVEN A. C. TUBES Convenient Terms Sherman, Clay & Co. BEacon 6261 Sixth and Morrison Street Constance Hastings Pottorf DOC. OF MUSIC Pianist—Composer—Teacher 616 Studio Building BEacon 5859 STORY OF CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Turiddu is the village fop. He loves Lola, and in her frivolous way, she loves him although she is married to the mule driver, Alfio. Turiddu had previously courted and wronged Santuzza. The church bans her for her error. She entreats Turiddu to make good his promises of faithfulness but he spurns her and laughs at her misery. Whereupon, she tells Alfio that his wife and Turiddu are carrying on a flirtation.  They fight a duel and Turiddu is killed. Scene, public square in a village in Sicily. Time, Easter. ENSEMBLE Sammy Nunn, Dorothy Griffith, Wauneta Link, Pearl Owens, Verda Austin, Gertrude Ost, Margaret Lorenz, Murteell McElroy, Leona Kroh, Marie DeYoung Soule, Elsie Pechoes, Reno Raymond, Ruth Richardson, Elizabeth Stimson, Adele Barnickel, Herman Sheedy, Eugene Sanders, Dr. E. W. Finzer, Ray Ross, Clinton Kelly, A. A. Rassmussen, Fred Bingenheimer, Edgar Stoneman, J. H. Schneider, Homer Crocker, C. F. Moorehead, B. Lacher, Maynard Stimson. Compliments of Upstairs Furniture Store 167 FOURTH STREET AT water 5440 ALEXANDER HULL Literary Adviser and Teacher of Voice and Composition Tel. Beacon 1938 310 Studio Building GRIFFITH & THOMPSON BEAUTY SHOP Permanent, Finger and Water Waving Hair Bobbing, Facials, Manicuring 202 Ungar Building-2nd Floor BEacon 7500 OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES BRUCE KNOWLTON OPERA CO., INC. KATHERINE BOLLENBACK..................................................................Business Manager E. BRUCE KNOWLTON..................................................................President and Director D. E. W. FINZER..........................................................................................................Treasurer CLINTON KELLY..........................................................................................................Secretary HERMAN SHEEDY..........................................................................................................Trustee KATHLEEN WEAVER....................................................................................................Trustee GERTRUDE OST..............................................................................................................Trustee RAY ROSS..........................................................................................................................Trustee FINZER, ROSS and KELLY..................................................................Finance Committee ALVINA KNOWLTON.....................................................................................................Pianist PAUL BJORNSKJOLD....................................Stage Director and Dramatic Director FRED BINGENHEIMER and A. A. RASSMUSSEN..........................................Property E. BRUCE KNOWLTON............................................................................................Conductor Miller Callahan TEACHER of VOICE Exponent of Percy Rector Stephens Studio: 710 Studio Building Res. 1364 E. 35th St. BEacon 1915 SEllvvood 3313 687 WASHINGTON STREET Phone BEacon 0337 Smart women the world over are getting permanents! The most discriminating  women  of the Northwest patronize SYLVIA Permanent Wave Shoppe OPEN EVENINGS Health - Motor—Exerciser and Reducer PROGRAM Prologue from Pagliacci..........................................................:..............................Leoncavello Paul Bjornskjold Aria and Duet from Pagliacci...............................................................................Leoncavello Corine Buck, soprano Paul Bjornskjold, baritone Cavalleria Rusticana..................:................................................................................Mascagni BRUCE KNOWLTON OPERA COMPANY, INC. E. BRUCE KNOWLTON, Conductor PAUL BJORNSKJOLD, Stage and Dramatic Director CAST OF CHARACTERS SANTUZZA, Soprano.....................................................................GENEVIEVE HOWARD LOLA, Soprano............................................................................................HAZEL BODDING TURIDDU, Tenor...............................................................................................C. P. HAVLIK ALFIO, Tenor-Baritone............................................................................N. G. THEBEAU LUCIA, Mezzo......................................................................................KATHLEEN WEAVER ORCHESTRA Concert Master........................................................................................MURRAY SIMPSON First Violin..........................................................................................................F. M. GRIFFIN Second Violin............................................................................................................N. THOMAS Viola.....................................................................................................................K. GROSSMAN Cello..................................................................................................................BRUNO COLETTI Bass....................................................................................................................FRANK MARTIN Flute..................................................................................................................HARRY KNIGHT Oboe....................................................................................................................W. T. COULING Clarinet..............................................................................................................EDWARD RICE Bassoon..............:..................................................................................................BERT BROWN Trumpet..............................................................................................................ASHLEY COOK Horn..........................................................................................................................C. WALRATH 409 Megley-Tischner Building BEacon 5097 THE WOODSMAN E. BRUCE KNOWLTON The next opera to be produced by this company is the new work, "The Woodsman," just completed by Mr. E. Bruce Knowlton. It is a western story of Stephen, who has lived in the Mt. Hood district for eighteen years with the daughter of the man he had murdered. She married a Portland man. Stephen is injured by a falling limb and on his death bed, tells the story of his early' crime. The cast for the production is the best the city affords. Paul Bjornskold takes the part of Stephen and also serves as stage manager; J. McMillan Muir, Guy; Genevieve Howard, Mona; Virginia Hutchinson, Madame Devon, Guy's mother; Herman Hafner, Henry; Everett Craven, Everett, one of Guy's friends; and several smaller characters, including a non-singing character, Guy's father (past the age of mental brilliancy) to be done by Mr. S. E. James. The score is being arranged for full symphony orchestra and a chorus of fifty has begun rehearsals.  The production will be ready in February of this season. Paul Bjornskold Dramatic Director E. Bruce Knowlton Musical Director Teacher of Voice and Opera Technique Composer of Operas 408 Fine Arts Building BRoadway 2757 NOTICE The Bruce Knowlton Opera Company is maintained for the purpose of producing grand opera in Portland with Portland talent. Portland has sufficient talent. This talent, however, cannot be both the producing company and the audience. All operatic enterprises in the past which have not been a financial success merely lacked public support. It is idle, it is unkind, to condemn opera companies of the past for failure. The singers in every case have given of their talent in abundance. The public have starved them. Opera cannot be presented without funds. If these funds are withheld by you, the public, it is unkind to complain of opera failures. Some day, the business men and the cultured women of Portland will come to see the beauty and value of grand opera and will support it with their money and presence. Why let Portland's opera talent wear out their lives and waste their talents, time and energy, in a vain effort to do noble things for the city, while you, the public, either sit by listlessly, or even maliciously, and permit this terrible waste of the only valuable asset the city possesses, its human endeavor?   How long?   Ladies and gentlemen, how long? CONN-LA PACIFIC BAND AND ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS RADIO BOSCH MAJESTIC PIANOS Famous Cable line sold for years by the Wiley B. Allen Co. USED PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS Victor—Columbia—Brunswick Records RECORDS SHEET MUSIC POPULAR - CLASSICAL VIOLINS AND ACCESSORIES LUDWIG DRUMS AND ACCESSORIES RADIO SERVICE Call ATwater 0204 or BRoadway 178G Seiberling-Lucas. Music Co* 151 4th, Near Morrison