Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-23

place sufficient very fair talent could he
found: First an overture by piano with
violin or flute accompaniment. Second,
quartet in popular ballad, or, where pos
sible, three or four or more young girls
dressed in college gowns and trenchei
caps, who sing the rollicking college song
Of
AL you fellows who have peanuts and give youi
neighbors none,
You sha'n't have any Of my peanuts when youI
peanuts are gone.
This song never fails to set prope.t dis
posed audience off into roars of laughter,
and half the battle is done if you can
make your audience laugh heartily in
the beginning of the evening. Next, you
may have recitation, after which sole
song or instrumental music. A very
pretty thing next would bo minuet by
the smallest children you can get tc
dance it, and they can be dressed in
costume. The very mistakes and awk.
Weaknesses of tiny little tots are pro.
nounced "sweet" and cunning"
] remember one case where four little
midgets We're to play the three graces
and tho awarding of the apple. The
rosy youth ate it up and handed the core
to the chosen one. Another boy was to
so and kiss tie sleeping beauty, but got
frightened and stood in the center of the
stage and Gifted up his voice and
wept," and he lifted itup high, too, while
tears Us big as gooseberries rolled down
his cheeks and the sleeping beauty raised
her head to see what was the matter.
Children, charming as they are, are un-
certain quantities before the public, and
the careful manager must always take
this into account and arrange things so
that their failure shall bring diversion
but not disaster.
If children preponderate in the audi
ence, the tableaux of the good old fairy
tales dear TO every little heart can be
given, the older and more worn they are
the dearer. If grown people preponder-
ate, very pleasing diversion may be
made by few tableaux vivants repre-
senting "The Courtship of Miles Stand
ish," "Evangeline" sitting lonely and
sad eyed, and Andromeda chained to the
rock with Perseus about to rescue her.
All the world loves lover, particularly
when picturesque and poetic.
These are easily arranged and can be
made to resemble statues or pictures at
will. For statues the people who take
the character should dress in white, have
white wigs and be lavishly powdered
with flour, and the light should not be
thrown directly upon them, and what
there is should be white, though if feast.
bic curtain of white tarletane can be
stretched in front of them and then a
direct light thrown, a very dark back
ground being provided. Classical cos
TUNES can be improvised of sheets in a
few moments, To mako one for a wo-
man take two sheets and pass "A tapc
through the wide hens and draw them
up SO that they lit tho shoulders. Then
take two big buttons, mold and cover
them with white cloth. or gilt, il pre-
ferred, and fasten them where tho two
sheets meet upon the shoulder. The
sheets can then be tackled, or even
pinned, together under the arms and on
down TO the feet. a cord or girdle is
now fastened about the waist, binding
tie fullness in, and the gathers should
* deity pulled into the proper shape,
leaving the waist portion to droop loose
ly over the skirt. a picture of an ancient
Greek or Roman costume will help tho
novice 10 drape her robc--for Greek robe
II now is-perfcctiy and in classic style.
Pms will do the rest. The arms are
bare, aud the shoulders.
u other drapcIy u required, another