Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-04
/. A STAGE FULL OF BEAUTY.

ed and Enthusiasm Pr0vails-A De.
 scriptlon of the Beautiful Spectacle.
 There is no doubt but that the audience, which crowded the Hyperion last evening to witness the first presentation of the National Dances, was the most high class and most en- thusiastic gathering that the season hes wit messed in this city. Everybody of social note and prominence seemed to be there. On every hand, whether in parquet, parquet circle, dress circle or second gallery, faces familiar in all circles of society, notably the brightest, were to be seen. The theater was filled before the first notes of the orchestral overture were heard. In spite of the stormy night, the streets were full of people slipping and sliding through the street, all hurrying to get their seats befor the rise of the our tain. The lower boxes were filled with the chaperones of the affair and other well known society people. In the boxes at the right were: Hon. Lynde Harrison and Mrs. Harrison, General and Mrs. George H. Ford, F. Hayes Trowbridge, jr., and Mira. Trowbridge, Dr. B. H. Cheney. In the opposite boxes were: Miss Justine Ingsrsoll, the Misses Kate and Mamie Trowbridge and party of young gentlemen.
 As the last strains of the overture faded dWhy auu tuo tkak1Luk VI tu0 p0l4 WulCA uA. nounced the rise of the curtain was heard, every one was upon the qui vive. A mur- mer of admiration arose from the large au- dience as it caught the first view of the bril- liant scene which revealed itself. The full stage was filled with the flower and pride of New Haven's youth and beauty. All were arrayed in bright, picturesque, almost gor- geous, costumes. In the central Foreground graceful arms held aloft and their supple form curving and bending in the most fanci- ful postures. At the right and left knelt groups of dairymaids and Tyroleans, while in the rear. rising tier upon tier, were pie ruddy Hungarian gypsies and bold Tyrolean mountsineers with their bugles and horns.
 Presently the brilliant mass began to move. The Spanish maidsns in the center circled gracefully to the right and to the left, put themselves at the head of the hundreds of dancers and the Grand Procession of the Nations was duly inaugurated. Dairymaids passed with their pails and three-legged stools, the pretty Tyrolean girls came and went with their smiles and ogles, the Swedish dancers skipped along with feet as light as fairies, the gipsy girls "with rings on their fingers and bells on their toes' came tripping in their turn, all presenting pano- rama of grace and beauty which is seldom seen upon any stage.
 After the bright procession had wound it. self in and out and had executed many pretty manoeuvers, the dancers Hooked to their places upon the tiers of seats at the rear, and the stage was given to the graces of the Dairymaids. The young ladies who ap- peared with their rosiest smiles were Misses Ware Chapman, Carrie Mae Clegg, Mary Bescher, Fanny Holcomb, Edith Harte, May Stannard, Lizzie Joyce, Louise Morse, Alice Morse, Helen Coburn, Grace Beard, Clara Austin, Clara North, Grace Bronson, Edith Lloyd, Genevievs Wells. Morgan, Gertrude Sanford, Clara vaeder, Mary Bulford, Hattie Fleetwood, Rose Fleetwood, Minnie Tillou, Lillis Fleetwood, Genevieve Cronan, Ruth Beardsley. Henrietta Mans field, Clara Parmelee, Sara Loveridge, M Manwaring, Mabel Lee, Josephine webb, Emmis Webb. Carrie Hooker, Hattie Smith, Edith Sanborn, Grace Littlejohn, Hattie Kirby, Annie Peterson, Louise Shelton, Lila Wells, May Lum, Corinne Martin, Sarah Martin.
 They tripped lightly forth in groups of dozen, light-footed and graceful, marched their marches, danced their dances, bowed their bows and Hooked over to the right where they rested themselves upon their three-legged stools in long line from front to rear of the stage. They were followed by another group which went through the same antics and finally set their stools down at the left in another long line. .,a. Two mota o,.;,.d groups sSIpsss'rsd % the with shapely black bodices. The cotsrie of Dairymaids then fell into peculiar drill, in the midst of which the clear notes of pretty song were heard. It was Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson, the songstress and chaperone of the coteris. The Maids bent their ears to hear and danced fantastic figure as a re- frain. Soon the song died away and the Maids betook themselves to their stools and gave the stage to the blond lassss of Sweden, who came tripping forward to the notes of an old Swedish melody.
 They skipped hither and thither and exc cuted any number of novel turns and pretty
 figures. The boys sung low refrain, 'sThis is Not Handsome Thing" but the audience surely disagreed with them in the matter. They fell into semi-circular groups with exquisite posings, which were heartily ap- plauded. With an intricate spiral dance they circled around the stage and made their exit. '--e--
 merry blast of the bugle brought on a rush of fair Tyrolesn mountaineers with their nimble limbs and light-feoted fam tssies. The young ladies who greeted the audience with their naive smiles in this charming group were Misses Flora v. Adler, Ida A. Kahn, Julia Kahn. Della Zunder, Fannie Rogowski, Ida RoGowski, Minnie Mann, Tennie Sonnen- berg, Tennie Milandsr. Hattie Ryder, Lena Schollhorn, Tillie Sohollhorn, Lille Scheif- fer, Lena Deibel, Anna Iosller, Fannie Folk, Fannie Myers. Fannie Metzger, Teresa Mstzgsr, Bertha Heller, Nrs.G. M. Kahn, Mrs. L. F. Veil, Misses Sarah Nachol, Nettie Machol, Hannah Mailer, Lillie Kleeberg, B. Frye, Annie Linde, Bertha Wertzberger, 0. Daniker, Meta Hofacker, Mamie Ochs. They sounded their buglss, listened to the echo, sounded them again and were off on a mad dance, as wild and fearless as one might sup- pose the fair mountaineers would skip from crsg to crsg upon the summit of their own Tyrolean heights. They did some of the prettisst dancing of the evening. As they footed the picturesque finale the slow, sweet tinklings of zither broke upon the ear. With dreary swaying movement, they fell into group, which elicited unssinted ap- plause from the big audience, and with an- other turn or two they vanished into the masses in the rear.
 With all the dark beauty, gay costume and languor of Spain the Spanish girls appeared in the graceful intricacies of aEl Ole" They were greeted with applause. They were led by Miss Lncy Trowbridge, Niss McAllister and Miss Dudley The others were Missea