Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-01
CARNIVAL OF AUTHORS.
Enjoyable Entertainment for the Be nefit OF
the Homeopathic Hospital.

Enjoyable Entertainment for the Be nefit o
the Homeopathic Hospital.
The carnival Of authors now being held at tn,
builders exchange on 18th street between G
and II streets for the benefit Of the Home
opathic Hospital continues to attract large au
diences. The affair is being excellently vel
managed and the visitors find Amusement ant
pleasure that should amply repay them 70,
attending. An enter tanning feature of the car
nival Is the part taken by number Of very
pretty young ladies and girls in costumes, rep
resenting familiar characters from Dickens
Shakespeare and other authors, while the littl,
misses impersonate characters from Mother
Goose. Among some of the representation
that attracted conspicuous attention wert
Jenny Wren, by Miss Rieeart; The Mar
ehioness, by Miss Dingman; ''Barnaby Rudge, y
BY Benjamin Mortimer; Capt. Cutie, by
Mr.. Upton; 'Dick Swiveller,' BY Theodore
Fnebus; Mrs. farley" by Mrs. Friebus; 1.-THE
Blind !, q aiT RI BY Mrs Curtis; "Galeb Plum.
Jessie braves; THE Grandfather" BY Mr..
Green, and go the Blacksmith, ~ by Dick Bir-
ney. All of the characters represented, how
ever, deserve praise, and it would be a Difficult,
matter to say which was the best
One center of attraction during the evening
was the Japanese booth presided over by Mrs.
q. E. Davis. The decoration of this booth was
very artistic. and it was thronged all the time.
Mrs. Davis was assisted by Miss Bessie John
son, Miss Herbert, Miss Edith johnson and
Miss Hickman
Before the floor was cleared for dancing the
Incarnation scene from Henry VIII was rem
dered by the following: King Henry, Mr.. G. X.
French; Magician, Mr.. ". II. Conley; Katherine
OF Arragon, Mrs A. L. Snow; Anne Boleyn,
Miss Fanny Hough; Jane Seymour, Miss Rena
Genesi; Anne of Cleves, Miss Rosa Paesche;
katherine Howard, Miss Nellie Clark; Court
Jester, Mr.. Talbot Pulizzi; pages and dancers
before the court, Masters Towles and Collins
O'Toole, and Misses Elsie Tower, Marguerite
OToole, Annie May and Nellie Barrett. Other
Shakespeare characters: Ophelis, Miss Eisnger
Phoebe, Miss Rose Dyrenforth; Portia, Miss
Gertrude Beall; Miranda Miss Sue Greiner.
Chairman Shakespeare committee. Mrs. John
Dalzell; stage manager Miss Richards
There will be Mother Goose pageant, the
committee on which will be Mrs W. Howard
Mills. Mrs c. B. Smith, Mrs. Alvin Lothrop,
Mrs James McNabb, IT,, Mrs. Bittinger, Miss
Julia Clephane and Mrs. DR.. Jenkins. From
more than fifty characters are taken the names
of Miss Duhamel Mother Goose; Miss Leila
Hays, Mother Hubbard; Miss Bell Van Ness,
Milk Maid; Miss Katie Preston, Little Bo- Peep;
Mlss Eliza Preston, Queen of Hearts; Harry
Ellis and Hall Luck, Master and Scholar; Ralph
johnson and Mabel Lyman. Jack and Jill: Rom
aid Mills, Tom, the Piper's Son; Judith Gassa-
way; Polly Put the Kettle On: Helen Birney,
Sukey; Val Holman, Bow and Arrow; Dora
Preston, Little Bow and Arrow; Aline Wood
Rock-a-by Baby, Thy Cradle is Green; HYDE and
Fanny Barbarin, Jack Spratt and Wife; John
Barbarin, Pat-a-Cake, Bakers Man. Rebecca
Barbarin, one of the beggars in Hark, the Dogs
Bark, Emma Soussa, Sweeping the Sky; Irene
Hall. Red Riding Hood; Melville Gurley. Alad-
din; Jerome Graham and brothers, Little Boy
Blue and Ride Cock Horse; Dorothy Fox, Old
Woman in Shoe; Everett Ellis and Charlie
Lusk, Robinson Cruso and Man Friday; Estelle
Sypher. Queen Eating Bread and Honey; Elem
ore Adams, Cinderella; Therett Towles, Prince
Business men can patronize this enterprise
every day. for substantial lunch is furnished
from noon until pm, and tomorrow there
will be regular New England dinner. with all
those edlbles that are dear to the palate Of the
man who was raised in the New England states.