Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-02
LONGFELLOw,s DREAM.

Brilliant Social Event to occur at
 the Hyperion September 23d-Its No-
 table Presentations in Other Cities.
 An entertainment of highly interesting and attractive character, entitled "Longfel- lows Dream" !" will be given at the Hyperion on Monday evening, September 23d. Prepa- rations for the event are now in active pro- gress and are awakening no little interest. The affair will be given for the benefit of the Church of the Messiah. The committees have been appointed and are busily at work and everything betokens that their efforts will
 be crowned with signal success. Many
 young ladies have already volunteered to
 take part, and the demand for positions is
 very active. "Longfellow's Dream" is so-
 ciety entertainment and costume spectacle.
 Everywhere that it has been presented it has awakened great popular and social interest. One hundred ladies, gentlemen and children are to take part. representing the fairest and richest of Longfellow's immortal creatures
 kings, queens, peasants, gypsies, ancient Hebrews and modern Yankees, ghosts, fair ies, midgets, Indians, Puritans, Spanish and Portuguese peasants, Moors, slaves, athletes, vestals, martyrs, Salem witch of 1892 and an lsS9 witch, music, oratory, sculpture, painting, pantomime, prooessions, tableaux vivant, tableaux mouvsnt and humorous monologue. All four dreams are given en- tire each evening.
 Coronation of Columbus (copyright). The ] latter is an historical pageant commemorative 1 of the four hundredth anniversary of the dis ! oovery of the new world and dedicated to ! students of history throughout the world. | It was given with great success at Ford's l opera house, Washington, D. O., January 21, | 1879, under the auspices of distinguished ! social leaders. It was pronounced by the ! audience, which included large number ot United States senators, the most brilliant | amateur art representation in the annals oi ! the national capital. It was the only work | written for amateurs in this country of simi lar distinction, the cast having been made ! from the families of cabinet officers, senators | and others prominent in political, literary 1 and art circles. This pageant was also rep ! resented at Providence Opera House, Febru. 1 Brown university. The same writer's Shaks peare Wedding Festival was written in re- ! sponse to an editorial call in the Westmin ster Review, July, 1880. It wag brilliantly | successful.
 l Longfellow's Dream will be presented hert with the setting of special beautiful scenery | appropriate to each dream. It has been pre-. | sented with phenomenal success in Rutland | Vt, Attleboro, Mass, at Warner Institute
 Brooklyn, at Marlboro, Mass, in Newark ! N. J., and other places. The Newark Daily Journal says of Longfellow's Dream giver | there:
 An audience representing the wealth and culture ! of Newark occupied every seat in the auditorium
 of Library Hall last evening. and the attendance to
 night, su gured from the box office sheet, indicates
 similar result It is safe to say that the fuads the institution, of the oldest and most popula of charitable institutions (the orphan asylum will be augmented by at least $1 200. The repre- sentatation at once both striking and original
 produced upona scale of magniflcencs rarely equal ! ed in this city, noted for it's superior amateu performances. Gorgeous costumes, Greek statn | ary, exquisite tableaax vivant and melody O | voices were fnterwoven. constant stream 0
 richly variegated colors now and then tinged witt
 silver and gold passed in review before the eye il ! the phantasmagoria depicted in the dreamer
 mind. The curtain descended finally upol | the poet surrounded upon every hand by ideal pee
 pie of his fancy, vision of angels with floral harp
 looming up with magnificent effect in the back l ground, the foreground filled with the colossa
 statue of Judith with the head of Holofernes, Zeno I bia in chains cursing the Roman tribune, and tn | Spartan athlete StrangiipQ the SerDent.