Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-11-26
THe DAYS oE MOTHER coos.
The Alcott Club Rehearsing for is Unique
Entertainments

The Alcott Club Rehcarsing for is Unique
Entertainment
Members Of the Alcott Club TO the
number of seventy five. all children, met
at the Institute Hall Saturday morning
and rehearsed the marches and dances for
the Musical Mother Goose entertainment
to be given in the Opera House on Janu-
sry 5. for the benefit Of the Delaware
Hospital.
The exercises will begin with a grand
Mother Goose march, led by Esther
Wilson as Mother Goose escorted by Dan
Bates appropriately decorated. About
300 persons will take part in the march,
sitter which the entire club will sing
Cock Robin
The line will then be broken and eight
fouples viii come forward and dance the
Mother Goose dance, in which the follow
ing children will take part All the girls
viii be costumed as Mother Goose and the
boys as various male characters: Esther
Wilson and Daniel Bates, Betty Sperry
and Harry Candy, Elsie Rice and Maurice
Rogers, Josie Harvey and Harry Fritz,
Bessie Quigley and Charles Buck, Elsie
Smithers and Rogers Wilson, Emily Gray
and Avery Draper, Mable Porter and
Joseph Wales.
The following characters, several Of
each. viii then come forward on the stage,
each class of characters by itself; and in
all their comical grotesque and cute eos.
tunes. sing the songs which originated
their characters and dance the tripping
dances of Mother Goosedom.
The pretty maids and pretty men, with
sweet and beautiful faces the Old Mother
Hubards who found the cupboard
so bare that the poor dog got
no bone, the Simple Simons
in all their naive simplicity and empty
purses, the Little Bopeeps who were 80
confidently told that their sheep would
come heme with their tails in the proper
place, the Crooked Men who had such an
exceedingly crooked time of it, the
Little Red Riding Hoods whose grand
mothers were so ruthlessly eaten by the
VOLTS and who providentially escaped,
the jacks and ellis who climbed slight
eminenees for a temperance beverage and
then met with a sad accident in which
Jacks skull was fractured, the Jack
Sprats whose fastidious taste eschemed
fat, but whose accommodating wife did
not
All these win be there and in addition
many Of the other characters dear to the
days Of childhood Little Jack Horner,
The Cat and the Fiddle, Tom the Piper's
Son, the Old Woman That Went Up in a
Basket, etc
With the exception Of the Old Mother
Hubbard and Jack Sprats the various
characters were assigned on Saturday as
follows The Crooked Men will be Viii
liam kpruance, James Ward, Charles
Buck, James DeVou, Frank Turner.
Joseph Wales, Avery Draper, Ralph
stubbs; the Little Bopeeps Margery Nc
Kay Mamie Churchman, Lizzie Quigley,
Matte Shortlidge, Audrey Shortlidge and
Ellie Wales: the Jacks and Jills. Madge
johnson. Thomas Young. Elizabeth
Candy Corbett Warner, Charlotte Loung.
Pointeh Johnson, George Harrington.
Madeline Draper Anna Bird Henry Candy
the Pretty Little Maids and Pretty Lit.
tie Men-Reba Mckay, Walter Bush,
Carrie Bush, Rogers Wilson, Tilie Lamb
son, Samuel Rumford, Belle Ward, Don
aid Bush, Beulah Lloyd, Lee Mcllvaine;
Simple Simons-Perley Sisler. Elliott
Harvey, Walter Garrett. Albert johnson
and Louis Rumford.
The various songs will be followed by
hower songs, in which daisies, sunnowers
and roses will take part, represented by
she following children: Daisies Mary
Aaull, Madeline Wilson and Bessie Gil
yln sunfiowers-Minnie Carpenter, Ellen
Hewes, Martha Robinson: roses-May
tones, Ethel Candy and Nellie Sparks.
The above viii be the program for the
hrst part Of the entertainment
The second part will be the production !
of Lovers drama of the Happy Man"
under the direction Of Howard Pyle. The |
cast Of Characters for this will be selected |
from the members Of the Dunning and
Norris chapters of the club, 1ilghman
johnson taking the leading part.
Professor A. s Webster has very
kindly lent his valuable assistance in
training the children, and was present at
the rehearsal Saturday morning.
The entire Alcott Club is requested to
meet in the Institute Hall tomorrow
afternoon at a o'clock to practice the
Mother Goose march.