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The Wizard of Oz a Musical Extravaganza Grand Opera House HARRY L. HAMLIN, Manager Fourth Week, Monday Evening;, June 13, 1904. FRED R. HAMLIN Presents THE WIZARD OF OZ A MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA. Book and Lyrics by L. Frank Baum. Music by Paul Tietjens and A. Baldwin Sloane. The entire production arranged and staged by Julian Mitchell. LIST OF CHARACTERS: (Arranged in the order of their entrance upon thestage.) ACT I. Scene 1—AKansas Farm. (Painted by Fred Gibson from designs by Walter W. Burridge.) Dorothy Gale, a Kansas girl, the victim of a cyclone Anna Laughlin The Cow, named Imogene, Dorothy's playmate Joseph Schrode Golfman Irving Christian Farm Hands Misses Fisher, Donalson, Von Brune, Murray, Gerard, Wilton, Arnold. Messrs. Cleveland, Devlin, Young. PROGRAMME CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE We Use Exclusively and Serve Free to Patrons of this Theatre Corrinnis Waukesha Water FROM WAUKESHA WHITE ROCK SPRING WISCONSIN HINCKLEY & SCHMITT (inc.) distributers 132-134 NO. JEFFERSON ST. 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Scene 2 (Transformation) The Country of the Munchkins. (Painted by John Young.) TommiePeterTopPop} }MunchkinsMunchkins{ {JosephineElizabethClaytonYoung Simon Slick } Munchkins { Emily Fulton } { AntoniaSophroniaMunchkinsMunchkinsElla }{ Gilroy Sadie Emmons Premonia } Munchkins { Beatrice Gilbert Malvonia } Munchkins { Stubby Ainscoe Semponia } Munchkins { Lita Shaw Munchkin Youths Misses Clara Selton, Mabel Powell, Bert Dean, Helen Blye, Leona Stevens, Daisy Carson, Emma Clark, Nellie Lane, Helen Turner, Virginia Kendall, Osia Thompson. Messrs. Steele, Bingham, Diskins, Hoskins, Nichols, West, Keesee. Munchkin Maidens Marie Mathey, Mabel Frenyear, Anna Leslie, Ilai Mable, Minna Doerge, Edna Leach, Nancy Poole, Lola Gordon, Marie Clayton, Beatrice Gilbert. PROGRAMME CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE HIGH GRADE OPERA CLASSES TO RENT AT STAND IN FOYER AND OF THE USHERS. 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