The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-28

The Children's Play at the
Seattle Theater.
IN AID OF THE ORPHANS: HOME.
An E~pJayabIs Entertainments Given In
Presence Of . Good Aadfsmee for
. Worthy Object.

The performance Of Cinderella" by Sc
attic children at the Seattle theater last
night for the benefit of the Orphans home
was . gratifying success, and will add
largely TO the resources Of that worthy
and needy charity. The theaier last night
presented a sigh. TO be remem-
bered. The tone of the perform
ance was given by children and
babies on the stage, and the audience,
which was Of q very good size. was like
wise one in which the child and baby eie-
ment was predominant. Among hose on
the stage. especially among the fairies and
cupids with bows, there were some chill
dren not over five years of age who looked
very pretty ana ''cute" in tights
and little underwaist. and carrying
cupid's bows This was the concluding
portion Of the programme. In n respect
the programme was NOT As expected and
promised. and that was in the fact that
there we're intervals during which nothing
was going on. Arrangements had been
made to have s~tereopticon exhibits in the
waits between dances. but the apparatus
failed to work when it was needed and the
waits had to be endured as in other per-
formances. Prof. Lopp. whose pupils a
the performance was the recipient Of many
congratulations on the success of the
evening.
The performance consisted in brief of .
play setting forth the popular nursery
story of Cinderella. interpreted with
many dances by the different children in
the caste. After the overture by the
orchestra. appeared in act one the step
sister of Cinderella preparing for the ball.
Cinderella was Ruth Waterhouse and the
cruel sisters were portrayed by Stella
Langdon and Myrtle Hoisington. During
the act the premier minuet" was per-
formed, jamie kellogg playing the ac-
compartment, on the violin. The second
act was the transformation scene, by the
fairy godmother. This part was taken by
Ella Matthew.
The ball room scene was utilized to set
forth a long list Of dances. The first was
the Oxford minuet by the entire class.
Then came the Jockey jig, danced by
Eugene Blaine. Master Stephen Cakkeek
followed with the Irish clog, and re-
ceived an Moore. The sons Love in the
Moonlight" and a dance accompani-
ment then folio wed. performed by Marie
Heiher. Myrtle H~oisington, Eugene Levy
and Aubrey Levy. Stella Lanedon and
Myrtle Morgan followed with the skirt
dance and were in turn followed by Eu-
gene Levy and Nina Snow in the sailors
hornpipe. The Highland fling was next
on the list and was done by Oracle Denny.
Minnie Wheeler, Arthur Cole and Ernest
Wheeler. Mary Kurz and Julia Chopard
then gave the serpentins dance. as made
famou, by the %well-known dan
Ger. Loie Fuller. The minuet de
Ionic Nv waa tfarosru
and pretty number. 1t was danced by
two sets of eight each. Ethel Filkins,
Diana Collins, Ruth Waterhouse, Myrtle
Hosington, Marie Heiber. Nina Snow.
Winifred Sharpe, Nellie Hill. Burton
Haines, Jamie Kellogg. Carl Mcknight.
Samuel Russell, Phelps Gilmore. Reuben
Boyd, Eugene Levy and Aubrey Levy.
This dance concluded the features in act
three and the ballroom scene.
Act ~. was the fitting Of the slipper,
and was followed by the May fete. This
was the Maypole dance SO vel! remem.
bered from the Ranke hall entertainment
of two weeks previous: A pole was set up
in the middle of the stage, different col
ored streamers being fastened to its apex.
At q given signal the children seized each
a ribbon aud began dancing round the
pole. thus wrapping II with the ribbons.
At another signal the dance was reversed
and the ribbons were unwound. AJapan-
csc dril! by sixteen girls under Ida The
dinga as captain, In parasols and Yum
Yum costumes. was also given. much TO
the entertainment of the audience. a
| iableau by the little ones concluded the
performance. and the audience departed.
highly pleased with the nights enter
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