Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-19
FLOWERS AND FAIRIES.
School Children Present a Pretty Oznfata at
the National Theater. ~ l'-

the National Theater. ~ SD
very fair proportion Of the school youth
and beauty Of Washington wes to be seen at the
New National Theater last evening, both before
and behind the footlights- The pretty cam
tsta. 1.-The Flower Queen, OF the Coronation of
the Rose" was presented under the auspices of
the pupils OF the first division of the public
schools, and a success most pronounced was
the verdict of all in attendance. The argu-
ment of the cantata is: The flowers meet in o
secluded dell In the forest to choose their
queen A person discontented with the world
seeks in the same place retirement from its
cares and disappointments- The flowers tell Of
love and duty and the recluse, learning that to
Ill well the station allotted by Providence Is TO
be happy, resolves to return again to useful
ness and eontentment among his fellow crea-
lures.
This pretty story was told in words of song
by pretty misses dressed to represent the dif-
ferent flowers and chorus Of fairy-lke crea-
lures costumed to make a dazzling eye picture,
and whose voices were as fresh and pleasing as
their fair and animated faces During an
interlude of part second nicely executed
fancy dance By the queen OF the fairies was
given. also skipping rope dance BY one OF the
queens followers Then came pleasing nov
city in the shape of lawn tennis drill and
march by sixteen pupils of the SIXTH seventh
and eighth grades of the Adams School build
ing. The costumes were very artistic and the
evolutions a marvel of precision
The characters OF the caatata were assumed
as follows:
Rose Miss Hattie Meads
Recluse. Mr. Ernest II. Daniel
Suhno"er- --.--...---.----:: .Miss ne;eh Nye
Croeus- ---.-.-..-.----.-..M Miss Mamie boteier
Dahla. Observation-Disclosures Miss Olive Travers
Heliotrope Misses Carrie Clark and Jessie Davis
Lily ...-.,............9 Miss Margaret Sherman
Dandelion. -..-.....--...-.M Miss Lucy Mitchell
Holly hook Miss Florence Stidham
Japonica. ....M Miss Annie X. Roller
>t;.. i..-......... Miss Ida Wagner
nisnone''e t.. Miss May Belle Chambers
Tulip ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Miss Marion Garrett
IOuch-Ine-not- Miss Flora Shlnn
Forget-me-not Miss yirgie Clabaush
The cbOruses were large. well drilled and
sang with cOmmendable zeal and precision
Among those composing this very necessary
auxiliary were:
Ida Sibley, Anna Blandy, Eva wilmarth, Mag
gle Maddox, Goldie Gideon, Bessie Purman,
Bessie Griffith. Hattie Iafferty, Mabel McEl-
wee, Ida McFarlen, Annie Lake, Rose Taylor,
Mamie Wheat, Ada Gillen, Annie Clark, May
Rannells. Helen Over. Rose Hilton, Sadie Jack,
Maud Gileski. Maud Shinn. Lula Barrett. Mabel
Perry, BERTHE IOst Carrie Clark, Grace Endl-
cott Mamie Costell, Ida King. Lille King,
Emily Barrett, Edna Bailey, Alice Vaughn,
Grace Newton, Bessie Mchnew, Mamie Casteil.
Rosabud Castell. Stella Heilbrun, Kate McGirr,
Ruby Tully, Mildred Dean, Edith keck, Addie
Brien. Sadie Shaw, Mamie Cocks, Emma
Gsisbery, Annie johnson, Gertie Heilbrun.
Blanche Vaudoreu, Blanche Reid. Beatrice
Toplif, Lula DOdd. Maggie Bretsford Beth
BYRON. Clare kepner. Nellie Martin, Mabel
brewer, Leila Peaehy. Della Dennison, Isabel
Jordan, Lizzie Lackey, Alice Weaver. Bessie
Anderson. Lucy Loeffler. Fife Sharpless, Adele
Dyer, Edith Lacy, Annie Robertson, Edna Bach
man. Maggie % BFieD, Marie Collier, Efie Henry.
Mamie Hubbard, Maggie McQneensy, Ruth
Merriam. Helen Bickford, Agnes Fraly. Emily
Miller. Daisy Sinclair, Anne Chamberlain,
Bertha Richmond, Jessie Davis, Fannie john
son. Bertha Grossart, Augusta Grossart, Mabel
Coniee, Marian Garrett Ethel Durell, Tillie
Grossart, Katie Lay, Alice Spies. Ida Moore.
Mary Cole. Katie Carey. May Baker, Marian
Slater, Annetta Wells, carrie Braden, Mary
Blekford. Rena Bates, Mabel Horaer, Matte
Cocks, Agnes smith, Gertie Ponds, Sarah Sierra
man. Julia Elliott. Jesse Palmer, Agnes Car
roll, Flora Eccard. Mamie Mertz, Bertha Bris-
toe, Henrietta Croshan, Carrie Bean, Rosa
Church. Alice Chandler. Lille Helen. Garrett
Daniels. Charity Crossau, Lottie Patent, Ira
Edwards, Annie heiser, Annie Boulter. Mabel
Donnelly. Maude Marten, Sadie Benedict. Lottie.
Hatten, Victoria Mertz, Agnes Smith, Lola
Evans Annie Kaiser. Clara Bell Good win, Lottie
Sehurtz. Rovills Funk, Ellen King, Mabel
Naugh. Gertrude Ward, Mary Kerjci, Inez
johnson, Mamie Wolverton, Gertrude Pond,
Mamie Herring. Jennie Carlton. ]. Edwards
Evelyn Castell, Mabel Lamborn, Alice Clark.
Helen McCory, Mary Gallaher, Marion Speare,
Lorraine McFarlan, Florence Hopper, Emily
Willard. Bessie Dyer, j. Breen, L. Cole, NJ
kreici and sadie Fisk.
At an early hour of the evening the doors of
the theater were besieged by a large crowd of
eager and joyous children, anxious to gain ad-
mission, and right their heels was a throng
of their elders, equally anxious to secure seats
OF vantage. so that on the going up OF the cur
tain the lower floor and galleries were COM
Dletely fillel-