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Williams The Legend Folk WINONA (First-born Daughter, Minna Pelz Wenonah) Niece and Soprano Ward of Wabashaw WABASHAW (Red Hat) Wm. Fraser Chief of Dacotah Robertson Village on Lake Pepin Bass CHATONSKA (White Hawk) J. McMillan Muir Winona's Lover Tenor WEEKO (Beautiful Woman) Alice Price Moore Winona's Friend Contralto MATOSAPA (Black Bear) A. K. Houghton A Chieftain, Chatonska's rival Baritone MEN AND WOMEN OF THE VILLAGE George E. Barber, Lillian Bates, Curtis L. Beach, Fred Bingenheimer, Elenora Bernard, Daisy Beatrice Bevans, E. J. Bitts, Dorothy Bollam, J. O. Bristline, Helen Bromberg, Jessie Brown, Lovedy Burkholder, Charlotte Call-well, Catherine F. Cooper, Katherine Doyle, Harriet Ferguson, E. A. Fowler, Carrie James, Irene Johnson, Ramona Kingsley, Ethel Lawrence, Leona Lyon, Bird McCutcheon, Ruth Meeker, Alice Metzler, Leo W. Miller, Harold W. Moore, Dorothy E. Motzko, Nellie Munger, Sybil Oldstein, Betty S. O'Neal, Esther Penwell, Irving Peterson, R. E. Peterson, Ernest Purcell, Blanche. Rowell, E. L. Rush, E. A. Sander, F. R. Sanders, Jennie Scarpelli, Edith Schmuckli, Ruth Schmuckli, Grace Silcher, Mae Simpson .Marjorie Simpson, Margaret Slottka, Kenneth I. Snow, Gracia Stewart, Pearl Trickey, T. Ward. MOCCASIN GIRLS Dorothy Bollam, Irene Coleman, Katherine Doyle, Carrie James, Ramona Kingsley, Alice Metzler, Dorothy Motzko, Sybil Oldstein, Betty O'Neal, Ruth Schmuckli, Marjorie Simpson, Gracia Stewart. BALLET LOUISE MARVIN, Soloist Gladys Bateman, Lorene Eastham, Frances Foster, Helen Jacobson, Celia Soble, Helen Woodward. 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AUTOS WITHOUT DRIVERS LARRY SULLIVAN 212 So. Broadway BEacon 1581 FRIDA STJERNA Presents BETTY O'NEAL JOHN TODD Principals of AMERICAN OPERA COMPANY Res. Studio 63 E. Thirty-Ninth N. Trinity 2405 414 Fine Arts Building F. S. LANG MFG. CO. Six Scenery by Lermer & McConnell; bows and arrows by Nugen Kantz ; chorus costumes by Gracia Stewart; Winona and Weeko costumes courtesy of Princess Esther Motanic, Pendleton ; teepees, courtesy Great Northern Railway ; Indian accoutrements courtesy of Art and Curio Shop, Red Men's Lodge No. 6, Waukeenah Council No. 29, Woods' Indian Village. ACT I. Scene on Lake Pepin (The Lake of Tears) formed by the Mississippi River on the joint Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary. ACT II. Same as Act I. ACT III. Top of promontory, Maiden Rock, overlooking Lake Pepin. Season: Autumn. Period: Old Indian days before the coming of the white man. ACT I The main theme concerns Winona, the orphan daughter of a Sioux chieftain, who has been reared by her uncle, Wabashaw, her father's successor to the tribal leadership. As the action opens the scene depicts Lake Pepin, formed by an enlarging of the Mississippi river along the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundery. It is moonlight and the girl's lover has violated a tribal custom and stolen away from the hunting party to return to the village for a clandestine meeting with his sweetheart at dawn. Winona is in her lodge as he approaches over the waters in his canoe, pausing now and then to address his love to her on the wooden flute, the fascinating Indian melody thus introduced becoming the theme for the aria sung by this character, Chatonska, when he draws his canoe on the shore and approaches the lodge. He tarries too long at his wooing and is discovered by Chief Wabashaw, who resents the youth's forwardness. A struggle ensues but at Winona's pleading he agrees to permit Chatonska to return to the hunting party but first rebukes him before the tribe. At this point Weeko, the friend of Winona, gathers the girls of the village about her and tells them the legend of the Moccasin Flower. Just as the main story was the Indian method of instilling strong elements of character into the young by its frequent retelling, the flower story gives a glimpse of the beauty of their conception of nature. An Indian girl, whose father, before his death, had taught her the use of the bow and arrow so that she had become the most expert of the tribe, insisted on going with the fall hunting party and is presented with a new pair of moccasins by her mother just as she leaves. The old woman had asked the Great Mystery to bless the footwear to insure her daughter's safe return. While separated from the rest of the party the girl is overtaken by a forest fire and is forced to leap from a high cliff toward a lake in an effort to save her life. She crashes to death on the rocks below and Winona, who entered during the recital of the girl's death, is moved to tears. Next spring the bereaved mother Seven 301 Oak St., near 5th BRoadway 0070 Portland, Oregon PEASLEY- JOURDAN PHOTOGRAPHERS 407 Morrison Street BRoadway 2837 For the Finest of Food Well Served in Commodious, Attractive Dining Rooms Folks Particularly Enjoy the 3 Hazelwoods Hazelwood Menus Offer Both RESTAURANT AND FOUNTAIN SERVICE Caudles, Ice Creams and Pastries of incomparable variety and goodness! Hazelwoods CONFECTIONERIES if & RESTAURANTS 388 Washington — 127 Broadway East Broadway at Wheeler Eight wandered the forests seeking her child's body. At last after many fruitless weeks of search, she came upon a spot at the foot of the cliff beside the lake where there had sprung into full blossom a bed of flowers never before seen but which were the exact reproductions of the moccasins with which she had encased her girl's feet. In this she saw a sign from the Great Mystery that she had found the last resting place of her daughter. The moccasin flower today is the state flower of Minnesota and the state has a park, Minneopa, named for the unfortunate girl. Chatonska has met the hunting party returning to the village and now comes on the scene with them again. Wabashaw seeking to find a superior man in his tribe to whom he might give Winona, asks who has killed the largest moose, the swiftest bird and the mightiest bear and when to each query he hears Chatonska's name called he is disgruntled, forgets his announced intention of rewarding the champion and calls for the celebration of the close of a successful hunting season. This introduces the spirited "Medicine Feast" dance with which the first act ends. ACT II The second act depicts the recently returned hunting party singing songs of the hunt when the cry of a man in distress is heard from the hills. The newcomer is the young Chief Matosapa from the Sioux tribe further north. He had been captured by the Chippewa and escaped during a night storm to seek shelter with friends and to warn them that the enemy was advancing, after setting fire to Wa-bashaw's richest hunting preserves, to slay the entire village. The elders are called together and decree a war. Matosapa has seen Winona and fallen in love with her, pleads weakness from his harrowing experiences and remains in the village. A wild war dance marks the decision to battle and the young men of the tribe leave, Wabashaw remaining behind to be with Matosapa. The lamentations of the women at the departure of their men no sooner has died down than Matosapa seeks out Winona and makes advances to her protesting his love in one of the charming melodies with which the score is sparkling. She spurns him, telling him of her love for Chatonska who, according to an agreement with Wabashaw, may take her as his bride if he conducts himself bravely in battle. Matosapa is so insistent that Winona shouts her hatred at him and Wabashaw entering at the moment rebukes her and seeing the political advantage of such a marriage tells Winona that she must forget Chatonska and return with Matosapa to his village where she will be a chieftain's wife. Winona left alone sings an enthralling solo of her desolation and then is joined by Weeko who has overheard. Weeko advises sending a messenger to Chatonska so that he may return to claim her as a warrior. Winona agrees providing the plan seems propitious and resorts to the feather test. Taking a feather she blows it from her fingers and at the moment it would settle to earth it took a sudden upward course, which was the sign that the prayer found favor with the Great Mystery. Had the feather fallen without the upward leap it would have been interpreted as a sign of the deity's disapproval. The feather test is developed in the score with a duet. Nine In the Heart of the Retail Shopping District THE NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK Morrison Street, Sixth to Broadway PORTLAND - - - OREGON WM. FRASER ROBERTSON Bass-Baritone Soloist Teacher of Singing Conductor —o— Laurelhurst Studio— 1084 Wasco Street TRinity 4352. Portland's Most Satisfactory Store Roberts Bros third & Morrison Complete new Fall and Winter Stocks of Trustworthy Merchandise for the Home and Person Ten Eleven ACT III The third and last act moves swiftly through a series of dramatic incidents to the final tragedy. Matosapa, bemoaning his inability to win Winona, finds his reverie suddenly broken by the singing of Chatonska as he hurries to the village in answer to Winona's message to return. Chatonska rushes onto the scene and the two men clash in a duel to the death, but Winona urges Chatonska to spare his adversary whom he has overpowered lest Wabashaw visit dire punishment on him. Matosapa refuses to leave the village at the girl's pleading and when the men seem on the verge of another battle Wabashaw enters, orders Chatonska away and announces the girl must go with the young chieftain. This enrages Chatonska who attacks Matosapa and is prevented from killing him only by quick action on the part of Wabashaw. Wabashaw then orders Chantonska branded and sent into exile as a coward and murderer. In the parting permitted them, Winona and Chatonska agree to meet at the foot of the cliff and to escape together. At this point Winona sings a charming lullaby to her imaginary children, the training of a "lifetime which taught no woman's life was complete without marriage and children rose uppermost in her soul in her great hour of anguish. When WinQna seeks out the secret path to the foot of the cliff she is intercepted by Matosapa. She defies him in his protests of love and when he advances to seize her she dares him to show his sincerity by following her and shouting "Like Minneopa I will cheat the flames," leaps to her death from the promontory which to this day bears the name of Maiden Rock. Weeko, Winona's friend and villagers, rush in horrified by the girl's act while the last moments of the tragic spell of the opera are woven by the orchestra. Theodore Bushnell TEACHER OF SINGING Four Years of Study with Dudley Buck of New York Summer of 1926 with Arthur Hubbard of Boston BR. 7509 507 Columbia Bldg. C. 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The opera Mignon is one of the most fascinating, melodious and dramatic operas of the old school, and intermingling with the story of Mignon is also a stirring tale of love and devotion. We-nona or Why-nona? "How is Winona pronounced?" I asked one of the singers, well versed in Indian lore. As a flash, back came the answer, "We-noh-nah, Wee, Wee, as they'd say in French." "And how do you pronounce Smoothtop?" she of the dark eyes saucily added. "I pronounce.it the ne plus ultra, or in plain United States, 'the best ever' of all eooking methods," to which the lady (who has one and tells everybody about it) readily acquiesced. Winona in the story casts herself from the rock, hut in real life she would have gone to her little home and prepared Chatonska one of his favorite dishes in her wonderful new gas-oven. Then lighting the Radiantfire, they would jointly toast their toes at the radiant heat, discussing the delightful Symphony concerts, that artist, Willem van Hoogstraten is giving us, till it was time to retire. Chatonska would set the little thermostat clock of the Gasco furnace, and thus would end a perfect day. How much better than jumping off Maiden Rock ! Sixteen for lip Youngs Gown Shop for the Authoritative Mode interpeted by leading French and American Coutouriers One Thirty Tenth Street "OREGON-MADE" FOR EVERY NEED! QUALITY stands out in our Artists producing our own American operas. We're proud of them! HPHERE'S an Oregon-made product of merit for Practically Every need! Why not patronize them, then your money will build more Payrolls in Oregon. Payroll money pays big dividends. Ask Us About Oregon Goods Oregon Manufacturers Association Dan C. Freeman, Manager BETTY S. 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