The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-27
DICKENS CARNIVAL
Pupils of Hasbrouek Institute
Carry Out an Interesting
Programme.

The Dickens carnival last night at Has
brouck Hall proved the success that such an
elaborate undertaking deserved. The hall
was well filled, and the audience was en-
thusiastic.
Miss Amelia B. Myers, under whose direc-
ton the whole affair was given, has been
heard as a reader by a Jersey City audience
but once before this occasion, when she
opened the programmed by reading a selection
from ''The Chimes.o The first book to be rep
resented was BLEAK House." As the curtain
rose, the principal characters were discov-
| cred grouped in tableaux Wv ants, the parts
taken as follows
Mr.. Smallweed, Harry j. Turner; Sir
Leicester Dedlock, F. S. Hedden; Mr.. Tulk-
inghorn, Dudley D. +. Parker; Mr.. Turvey-
drop, j. Harold Bouton; Prince T~urveydrop,
G.. Clark; Mr.. Guppy's Friend, James FL.
Tompkins :Mr. Guppy'sG Guest, Eugene K. New
kirk; 10, John Bentley; Mr.. Krook, Mr.. Frye:
Mrs. S~mallweed, May E.. Grevatt; Judy
Smallweed, Josephine E. Turley; Ada Clare,
May McWilliams; Esther Summerson, Edith
Holbrook; Mrs. Jellyby, Daisy NJ. Rein
hard; Caddie Jellyby, NJ. Alice Macdonald;
Peepy, Gladys Holbrook; Miss Elite, Mary
D. Finlay.
A tableau, showing the principal char
acters in Martin Cbuzzleurt, followed, the
parts being taken by the following:-Peck-
sniff, John Rudolph, Jr.; Tom Pinch, Horace
G. Hilton: Old Chuzzlewit, Young Martin,
George P. Kristen; Mark Tapley, Ettielbert
| Miller; Zephaniah Scudder, F. P. Trapha-
gen: the Sick Young Man, Charles E. Watt;
Mary Pecksnif, Louise T. Crandall; Cherry,
May E, Jordan; Mary Graham,
Edith ,e2 n upo aaok e repr rhs fal'at Of
Mrs. Camps Tea Party, in which Miss
Florence Clerihew, as the only Sairey, ex-
horted Miss Addie Scudder, as Betsey Prig,
to s'whatever you do, Betsy, drink fair"
and Miss Scudder cut loose from fetichism
with the immortal II dom believe there's
no sich persona The action was SPIRITED,
the applause hearty.
''Our Mutual Friend" was shown by a
tableau introducing the fo~llowing:-Mr.
Bofin, Otto A. Lembeck; Silas Wegg, John
S. Lyons; Mr.. Wilfer, Charles Negus; Brad
ley Headstone, Alex. Mclean, Jr.;
Charley He1am, Isaac n; Quimby,
Mrs. Bofin, Louise M. Owens;
Mrs. Wilfer, Edna M. Edwards; Bella Will
fer, Kate V. jackson; Jenny Wren, Cert
rude NJ. Bushfield; Lizzie Hexam, Anna e..
Reid: Miss Peecher, Hattie G. Reynolds;
Mary Anne, Carrie E. Myers; Pleasant
Riderhood, May A. Forman.
-hioS oOlu v LLO o1lASt ALL AItNC Ave-
Quimby, Jr., and Mr.. Alexander Mclean,
Jr., gave the scene in which Jenny Wren
entertains Hexam and Headstone. Miss
Bushfield made a delightful Dolls Dress
maker, giving the character its proper COM
pound of s~hrewdness and pathos. "Oliver
Twist" was represented by four tableaux,
Oliver asks for More, Mrs. Corney and Mr..
Bundle at Tea, Oliver in Fagin1s Den, and
divers First Lesson in Theft. The charac-
tiers were taken as follows:-Olver Twist,
Charles Nc. f. Hunt; Fagin, the Jew, Reid
Watson; Bill Skies, Mr.. Keyes; Charley
Artful Dodger, Edward S. Thomas; The
Master, Harry Hintemann; Mr.. Bundle,
John F. Justin; Mrs. Corney, Clara Laws.
The Old Curiosity Shop had three
t~ableaux, ''Mrs. farley and Her Wax
Works" sThe Brass Office and "Little
Nell and Her Grandfather" There were
also a spirited dialogue, representing the en-
of Sampson Brass, the characters being
Sampson Brass, Stephen c. Lewis; Dick
Swiveller, Frank B. Hague; Sally Brass,
Elizabeth Fl. Speers; Marchioness,
Florence D. Reid. The other
tableaux were:-The Grandfather, Mr.. Kill
patrick; Sampson Brass, Stephen G. Lewis;
Dick Swiveller, Frank B. Hague; Little Nell,
Bertha T.. Hastings; Sally Brass, Elizabeth
H. Speers; Marchioness, Florence d. Reid;
Mrs. farley, Helen Bray; Mrs. Jarley's Wax
Figures, Aline MeDermott, Eva Bullen,
Louise o. Heike.
Little Dorrit introduced in q tableau the
Mr.. Dorrit, Nelson E.. Newbury; Mr..
Meagles, Henry Albers, Jr.; Mr.. Sparkler,
Herbert G.. Gibson; Arthur Clennan,
Chauncey v. Everitt; Mr.. Flintwitch;
George A. Burkhard; Little Dorrit,
Elsie Gould; Fannie Dorrit, Florence
uouau. Mro Gaporal E. Poar1 T. Rr0olro.
Mrs. Meagles, Edith Buschman; Pet Mea-
giles, Edith Cairns; ~Tattycoram, Margaret
c.. Eye; Flora, Edna Brown; Mr.. F.'s aunt,
Cassie V. Speer; Mrs. Clennan, NJ. Ward
Walker; Artery, Helen A. Thurston;
Nicholas Nickleby was represented by a
Squeers' school at "Dotheboys Hall" Mr..
Mr.. Willard Reid as Squeers, f1ourished the
cane of office; Frank J. Hall made an inter-
esting Nicholas; Gordan Mcintyre was the
oleaguious Wackford and Miss Goewey
Fraser the sentimental Fanny. Miss Irene
c.. Phillips administered birthstone and trea-
Gle as, Mrs. Squeers, and Fred o. v. Blenck-
ston made a pathetic Smike. The bows
were Arthur Muller, +. w. Pangborn, Jr.,
Dougal Herr, Chas. Hunt, Arthur Dear,
Daniel Hardenberg, and Oliver Washer,
Jr. The other characters in tableaux
were Mr.. Frank Cheeryble, R. E. Heike
Mr.. Charles Cheeryble,. J. R. Van Horn;
Tim Linkinwater, Arthur Smith; Nicholas
Nickleby, Frank /. Hall; Mrs. Nickleby,
Alice Scudder; Kate, Helen Palmer: Miss La
Creevy, Belle Stuck.
The entertainment closed with a grand
tableau grouping all the characters. Then
there was a promenade in costume, and the
dancing opened with a costume l~anciers.
Taken all in al, it was as successful an en-
tertainment as has been given in Hasbrouck
Hall, and reflects the highest credit on Miss
Myers and the young people whom she has
instructed.