National Republican., 1876-05-11
MAY FESTIVAL.
Marini's Seventeenth Annual Ball

Mdrln1S s seventeenth Annual Ball.
Last evening a large assemblage of the parents
and friends of the pupils Of Marini's Dancing
Academy were assembled at the hall to witness
the annual May festival of the academy. The
hall was richly decorated with flags and
streamers; the throne, being elevated cOnsidera-
bly, above the level of the floor, was gOrgeOusly
festOOned and canOpied with streamers, while at
the base of the throne, arranged in neat order,
were flowers and floral decorations, which made
from the throne to the floor was tastily covered
with brilliant maroon carpet. At the appointed
time the grand entree was made, the Crown
Bearer, Miss Maud SmoOt, and the Flower
Girls leading the gay company, followed by the
Queen of May, Miss Anna B. Wilson, her
Maids of Honor, Misses Nettie A. Riley and
Lena p Platter, and the Goddess Of Liberty,
Miss Louise Mitchell, the festal train closing up
the rear After a grand march, the different
having brought forward the crown. the First
Maid of Honor presented it with the following
appropriate remarks:
Hail! thou honored of us all,
Chosen sovereign of the day,
With this fragile cOronal
Thus We crown the Queen Of May.
'Tis no pond'rous diadcm
Fraught with care to touch the brow,
But tbs set with many gem
Light as are our spirits now.
Spirits from the upper air
May with pleasure view our sites;
Fairies from the grOttOes share
Incur innocent delight.
Queen of Hearts, thy gentle sway
Banishes all care and pain;
Bless the merry month of May;
Happy, happy, be thy reign.
The Queen, being crowned, made the following
response:
The roses with which You have crowned me,
And all the kind words you have said,
viii live in my memory forever,
When the roses are faded and dead.
If each pretty rose had a fairy,
UniOlded its petals within,
And if fairies would give for the asking,
scarce would know where to begin.
To ask all the blessings 1 wanted,
To be given in showers ween
To the loyal afectiOnate subjects
Who tonight have made me their Queen.
After the coronation the queen descended to the
floor and danced the Queens set" and was fol-
lowed by the programme of exhibition, which was
as follows: Tarentalla, Miss Maud rrimble;
THOMSON: .!.:.hIand Fling, Misses Maggie
Weaver and Annie Thompson; La Nanola, Miss
Mamie Joyce; Sylphide, Miss Mary tWlsIe;
leonard: Village Hornpipe. PEI Miss Mis- Matte owens:
Irish Lit, Miss Mamie Magee and Master Alex
ander Merchant: Sailor Hornpipe Ernest Thomp-
son; Baden Baden, Miss Lizzie Ellis and Master
Frank Merchant: Cachuca, Miss Carrie Mccall
lum: L'Ariel, Miss Nettie Shafer; Zngarella,
Miss Mamie Lathrop and Master A. Merchant;
SmOlenski Master Willie Joyce and Miss Mamie
Joyce; FL BQler@, Miss Jessie Joyee: Chinese
Dance, Masters Harry Cook and Frank Merchant;
Medley Miss Mageei Pas de Matelot, Master
ma Harry leonard; SkiPPing-rGpe Dance, Miss An,
masters; march, Lancic.rs and Polka, by all the
At the conclusio.. of the programme the floor
was cleared lor adults, and the merry throng
were led thrc ,dgh the entertainments of the dance
py weber > orchestra. At intermission fine col
laIon Vas served, and the dancers took them
serves. to the ballroom, where the early rays Of
m 'Jrn appeared before the lOng-to-be-remembered
oall was dispersed.