The New York herald., 1879-02-09
THE BALL SEASON.

ANNUAL FETE OF THE LIEDERKRANz SOCIETY
cARNIvAL-BAccHUs AND TERPsIcHoRE IN
THEIR GLORY
Ihe twenty-sixth annual ball of the Liederkranz
Society will take place at the Academy of Music
next Thursday night February 13. The Liederkranz
Gazette has just been issued and has been. usual.
empeihshed in finely artistic and
crammed brimful with tantalizing promises and
merry Jests The committees announced as fol-
ws:-Reception-William Steinway Julius Hof.
man, Emil Unger, G. G. Gunther. LOUIS Kaemmerer
Observation-Disclosures Hertwig. F. Protar. Joseph
Kepplcr Joseph Kapp. Alphons Ballestrem. CIV
Kurtz Paul Goepel. Gust Dieterich s. Sultan.
+. L. Huninghaus. George Mueller Arnold
Uhfelder. Floor-Feix Kramer Aug OFT.
mann, F. G. Schrader. julius Holeksmp.
Charles B. Bulling. L. cahn Herm. Member. G. 8.
Won Schueller. Press-Charles f. wendt r. van der
Emde and John Won Claim. Music will begin ut
nine O'Clock. and supper will be served in Nilsson
Hail and the supper room of the Academy.
On the first page Of the Gazette is represented the
Princess Carnival standing in front of the Academy
of Music atired in her gay gala Dress in her right
hand banner and in her left cornu entwined with
myrtle. the favorite vine of Venus. and out
of 1t is tumbling, jumping. falling and sprawling
a stream of fantastic characters who as soon
they gain their feet he themselves off in eager
temple. The ball is to open with dance by the
members Of the committees after which the great
scene Of mediaval mythology will be disclosed by
the rising of the curtain broad stairway leads
up to gallery and at its head three
figures. grouped in speaking attitudes. Bacchus
and Terpsichore, kneeling each upon one knee
before the Prince Carnival who pronounces over
them the spell of matrimony or something similar
to it. 'Terpsichore." remarks the muse Of the
Gazette. rhymes with chiccory. There was q man
once who addressed an ode to her, beginning
Oh, thou whom ADORE
Terpsy Terpschoro!
but he is dead now." She is the goddess Of the
light fantastic toe and it is therefore, deemed to be
fitting that she should wed Bacchus who Is in some
sense "heeler Terpsichores regular diet is said to
consist Of vrgniar eels and she drinks only pure
(quad) rie. She is gal op the period, and every
one admires the redowa cheeks. She never lets
the giddy maze irk her. This. pun, remarks
the Gazette parenthetically. with entire verify il
rather q breakdown. Pages heralds. Bacchantes.
danseuses court testers. harequins and pierrots.
group around the jolly potentate. Punch DE
on. The Princess Carnival holds almost . separate
court on the dexter hand and Mrs. Terpsichoro
Bacchus mounts a vacant throne on the left About
both Of these are clustered the most jovia Of the
minor personages in this modern Olympus. Pan is
there atunng his pipes likewise the favored heroes
of several nationalties Upon the floor OF the stage
bevy Of danseuses attred with the greatest
omy Of material In the foreground the mem.
bers Of the Liederkranz Society.
The last page Of the Gazette is given up to an
ceent allegorical design, uniting the tragicsl with
the humorous in very pleasant fashion. Old Time.
benign and quizzcal in expression. and
with his forelock standing. up like quills
upon the fretful porcupine," to give greater
facility Of clutch to the provident cynic is turn
ing huge wheel OF fortune. which much resembles
q grindstone. Its rim serves q support for
the ambitious the most prominent Of whom
faithfully depicted. each at the present stage OF his
progress In the hillows of Chaos below thine arily
standing in the meanwhile q cloud and clad only
in the ultimatum OF his presumable wardrobe)
disappearing the heels of some statesman or
soldier who has slipped of the deceptive
of public life. little further General
Butler is splashing with grace peculiar to
himself into the unknown element. Then there is
John Kelly, with face on which horror and alright
strongly Expressed spreading out both hands and
feet for possible bottom. Grant alone has
hand and cigar In mouth, in the direction OF India
The position Of Times scnile legs in relation to
the Generals route to suggest that
the artist meant them to serve the Sec
ond purpose of representing the pillars Of
Hercules. MacMahon has just tumbled from his
chair head foremost Next Bismarck foels the world
give way and his sword and helmet flying after
him through space The President OF the United
States is just the verge Of perpendcularity and
gazes before him in terror Prince Carnival sits
throned the top of the and is lifting gob-
let on high. Next Conkling. with one foot the
back Of the chair which he hopes to gain, Is slowly
mounting and last comes Gsmbetta. the rising orb
in France,