Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-02
A RECEPTION In FAIRYLAND.
Miss Agnes HamiIton's Dancing Class En-.
terlains Its Frlends--GrncefaI Move-
ments Of the Youngsters-MaDy We'd
goI nu-

Miss Agnes HamiIton's Dancing Glass En-.
teriains Its Frlends-GrncefaI Move.
ments Of the Youngsters-Many Wed.
dings Solemnized on May Day.
The inhabitants of fairyland with their fairy
godmother, Miss Agnes Hamilton, held re
ception at Lafayette Hall last evening thai
was attended by host of mortais, as the
fairies would say. And never have those
visionary little creatures afforded the less
favored such charming glimpses of their own
pretty selves and their graceful frolcs, as they
did last evening.
To be practical, it was the reception of Miss
agnes Hamilton's dancing classes, but remein-
6ering the airy, fairy little bellies, with their
dainty costumes of white null, composed OF
multitudinous skirts and handsome lit
tie eorsages, displaying the pretty PINK
tired a vouns arms asseGs aea 'ne vino with all
the grace Of a Sir Roger De Coverley,
attended their sweet little partners. Toerge's
orchestra, from amid a collection of rare and
beautiful conservatory plants on the platform.
discoursed it's sweetest music for the fairy feet
to trip by. The programme consisted of the
grand march, lancers and. dancing in the
barn by the pupils and the highland
fling by little Marion McKelvy who with her
babyish grace and tiny figure arrayed in the
highland plaid and tartan, succeeded in arous-
Ing rapturous applause. and was fairly bur-
dened with flowers, which she acknowledged
with Patti-lke air. ''Morhing and Night"
was then danced by two ETHEREAL little maidehs
III gauze costumes, typical of their characters
polka by all the pupils, Mother Goose and
family by l6 in appropriate fancy-dress toilets
of all the colors of the rainbow and a glide
mazurka concluded the part first of the pro-
gramme, every little dancer of the fancy
dances having been laden with flowers.
Part second was opened by dance original,
arranged by Miss Jean Hamilton 1t consisted
OF IL little naidens. who by their costumes rep
resented flowers, bugs and birds, and by their
graceful movements almost bewildered the
brains OF the spectators. Eight of the Mother
Goose family. in character costumes, wen great
applause. and Coming Through the Rye. by
two little girls, was equally pretty. Yorke,
by the pupils and the Old Woman who Swept
the Sky, by Laura Liggett, preceded the
dance of the nations performed by 2o little
girls in dazzling beautiful costumes, which by
their colors representing some special country.
A waltz concluded the programme, and the
mortals who had filled every nook and corner
OF the hall and galleries took possession of the
dancing floor.
The members of the dancing class, which
closed for the season with last evenings exhi-
bition. were: Misses Jean Hamilton. Isabelle
Mahiie Heron, Florence Gerwig Annie Davis,
Effie Robinson, Rebecca Davis, Norma Red
man, man, Nellie Reed, Ida Ferree, Ethel
Hear Heard Mary Boss. Jennie Hend-
Ward, Martha Leggate, Louise Myers. Bertha
Bailey, Bessie Dunseath, Daisy B. stearn, Annie
Boss, Messrs: Dudley, Lggett. James Hamilton,
Iier Dannals, Jonn Murray. Harry DannalS,
Charlie Locke, Bert Klaus. Charlie Fite. Tom
Ingram. Paul Whitman, James Murray, James
Young, George Won Weller. Porter jackson,
Willie Crosby, James McEnulty. Walter Glle-
Powell, Walter Kneeland. Frank Ferree
Stratford Gerwig, Louis Warren, Misses
Laura q. Liggett, Jean B. Woods, Isabelle
Warner. Alice Hall. Florence Boswell. Eleanor
Stayton, Seba Miller, Claudia B. Hax, Helen
Lewis, Belle Lawson, Grace Nichol Tanner
Richards, Clara Fite, and Messrs Elmer Klaus.
Frank Fite. Lawrence Nichol, Harry Mason,
Edwin Giles, Wade EIphinstone, Howard
Giles, Louis Kennedy Douglass Bingham,
Florence Biggert, Willie Bookstore,
Harry Bockstoce, Cornelius Jackson; Misses
Helen Harrison, Daisy Dake. Bessie Miller,
Dell NJ. Klaus, Lillian Bean, Lettie Dunseath,
Marie Rose, May Lawson, Marie Roberts, An
nette Gilleland, Clara Louise Liggett; Harry
Ferree, Dean Mason, Addison Boss, Hanson
Rose, Roy Gilleland, Earl Mason, Charlie Dan
mails, Martin Hall, Alma Roberts, Marion Nc
Kelvy and John Liggett.