The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-24
ANOTHER SCENE OF BEAUTY
The Repetition Of the KirmeSS as Sue
CeSSiul as the First Performance.

The Programme Rearranged and Some
! Pretty and Attractive Additions
/ Made-A Large Crowd Present-The
Dances More Graceful and Brighter
! Than Ever-The Kirmess to Be Pre-
/ scented at the Matinee This After
noon and Again Tomorrow Night.
The second appearance of the Kirmess
I was greeted by large, enthusiastic and
appreciative audience last night. While
( it cannot be said that it was more of
success than the first performance, it was
certainly as good in every particular and
the interest has been well kept up.
Those who saw the first Kirmess need
no elaborate description to comprehend
its beauty, and as nearly everybody else
who didn't see it the first time was there
last night. it would be equally as useless
to describe what to be appreciated must
be seen.
The programme has been rearranged
and the stately and pretty minuet no
longer appears. The other dances are
all retained, with a slight rearrange-
ment, each with some new, bright and at
tractive feature
THE PROLOGUE AND THE QUEEN.
Miss Lucy Boyd recited the prologue
which introduced the grand taDleau, in
which the cOstumed performers were
grouped about the beautiful and stately
queen, Mrs. w. W. Gordon, Jr., whose
magnificent white satin costume en-
| traine was one of the handsomest that
has been seen on the stage. The flower
! dance by the little girls was one of the
brightest and most attractive features of
the evening. IL is wonderful to see what
interest the children take in their parts.
The flowers, bees and papillOns furnished
much amusement.
Master Percy LynwoOd sang very
prettily EAU revoir" after this dance
He has sweet voice. and his song last
night was much admired by his hearers.
The dance or the gypsIes presented, as
| before, some of the prettiest and bright
! est of costumes. The dance itself was a
pretty one, and well performed. During
the dance Miss Dollie Dub sang
Come Hither," very sweetly
while the gypsies gathered round her.
The Japs' dance was similar to what it
was before, but some very interesting
acrobatic and contortionist work was in
troduced. Messrs. Walter E. COney, G..
NJ. Lowell and b. f. Timer, three Of Sa-
vannah's best young athletes, performed
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been seen on the Savannah stage. Master
Percy Lynwood has not an equal as
ContortiOnist.
THE SPANISH DANCE.
The Spanish dance retained its former
| beauty, being, if anything, just a little
prettier and more graceful after more re-
hearsals than it was before. After the
dance Mr.. Julian Walker sang a solo with
his usual sweet tone and grace.
The Carcovienne and the tambourine
| dance, presented by little Miss Rosa
Coates, of Brunswick, were two of the
| prettiest and most graceful dances Of the
! evening. She won many plaudits by her
| pretty dancing, and several exquisite
! baskets of flowers were received by her.
The Indian dance was a picturesque
repetition of the former romantic
| scene and was presented by the
same performers. Miss Meta Harden
| took the part of Pocahontas with
| her characteristic ease and grace,
exhibiting much dramatic talent
| In the Swedish dance Miss Elise Huger
! took the part of the bride with Mr. Rob-
/ ert Harrison as the groom. This dance,
| called the Harvester's Wedding Festival,
was one of the prettiest and most grace
! full presented.
THE FESTIVAL AT ATHENS.
The festival at Athens, known as the
| Grecian or Egyptian dance, with Miss
! Phoebe Elliott, as Cleopatra, at the fes-
| tival to Goddess Athena, and Miss Belle
! Stiles, as the Priestess, was surpass
! ingly beautiful scene. 1t was exquisitely
designed, and both in the grace of its cos
tunes and the dancers it was unsur-
passed.
The Kirmess was brilliant repetition
of its former presentation, with a few
changes, which gave it, perhaps, an
added interest 1t will be repeated at
the matinee this afternoon, beginning at
2 o'clock, and again tomorrow night.
The box sheet for the sale of tickets for
the matinee will open promptly at 9
O'Clock this morning. Next Saturday
afternoon at O'Clock at Odd Fellows
hall will be given children's Kirmess
ball The admission will be five pounds
of sugar, to be donated to the Orphans
Home.
The management requests the school
teachers to dismiss the children little
earlier than usual, so that they may at
tend the performance,