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At The Theatre

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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The next notable attraction at the Athens Theater will be the Japanese musical operatic comedy, "The Geisha," which comes to Ann Arbor Friday night, April 8th. Owen Hall and Harry Greenback wrote the words and lyrics, and Sidney Jones provided the score for "The Geisha," and the production was cast and staged by Mr. Augustin Daly. The flrst act takes place in a tea house named Ten Thousand Joys, and the second at a chrysanthemum fete given in the palace gardens. The story deals with a naval ofBcer who is engaged to an English girl, traveling in Japan. He makes love to a Geisha, Mimosa San, and is fojnd out by his sweetheart. She gets angry and disguisea herself as a Geisha, and dances and sings for the entertainment of all those present in the tea house. Other intrigues have been going on, though, and the license is taken away from the tea-house keeper, and his goods, including the tea-house girls, dancers and slngers, are ordered to be sold at auctlon. Now a marquis wants to buy O Mimosa San and marry her, but in the hurry and confusiĆ³n of the sale the English girl is sold to him. All these complications are straightened out. The company consists of flfty people, including Mr. Mark Smith, Miss Laura Millard, Miss Linda Da Costa, Mr. Charles Swain, Mr. John Parks and many others. It will be a most extraordinary attraction for Ann Arbor and will no doubt be grjatly appreciated by our citlzens. It is well known that this is the original company which appeared for many months at Daly's theater, New York, and since leaving that metropolis has met with unbcunded success in the large cities, having just closed a most phenomenally successful engagement in Chicago. It is described as a Japanese musical operatic comedy and is one of the daintiest and brightest ocncoctions ever presented to the public, including as it does its many beautiful girls, lts dazzling scenic and elecerical effects. its magnificent and tasty costumes and the superb cast. "The Tarrytown Widow" is a fouraet play which has the real champagne sparkle to it.- New York Journal.

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Ann Arbor Democrat