The record-union., 1894-01-26
THE GAME OF LIVING WHIST.
Last Nights Entertainment a Great
Success.
Graceful Women, Gorgeous Costumes,
and Novel Dances-Infanta March
and Other Features.

The ladies of Sumner Relief Corps took
| a benefit at the old pavilion last night
rather. after weeks Of hard work they
achieved success for their treasury, and
gratified considerably more than thou
sand people who gathered to see the first
presentation of Living Whist in Sacra-
mento.
The great hall was, as stated, filled to
the extent of its seating capacity by q
representative audience. The entertain
ment opened with the Infanta March, TO
the music of an orchestra directed by
Professor O'Malley. who also trained all
the misses and ladies and gentlemen who
took part in the dances and marches.
The march was by thirty-two neatly
costumed girls in their teens. with Rose
Sheehan at their head as Captain. The
participants were Misses Eva Thomson.
Eda Thomson, G. I.aue, A. Laue, S. Wal
ters, K. Sutliff. B. Sutlih, X. Dunn. +.
Kerr. G. Simmons, j. Gibson, z. Denni-
son, B. Patrick, E. Woods, G. Vandine.
C. Sturmer, L. Meiss, L. Burns, A. Herr,
A. Keller, D. Guthrie, G. Wiley, S.
Wiley, n. Fisch, l.. Taylor, B. Ficks, NJ
Blue, n. Miller, B. Zemansky, l.. Ze-
mansky, E. Sheehan.
Eight were clad in robes of white, eight
in red, eight in pink and eight in pale
green. The precision with which they
marched, kept time, and executed the
intricate movements, was surprising.
The march is beautiful thing, and en-
tirely new here. Executed under chang
ing colored lights and directed with skill,
as Miss Sheehan certainly did, it was a
delight to the eye and a qualification OF
the taste for graceful groupings. The
music was the "Midwinter Fair March, )"
by Otto w. Noack of this city. Then
followed 1.-The Lovers QuarreP dance
by Idalene and Lottie O'Malley. The lit
lie people received a hearty and deserved
encore Tor their dramatic terpsichorean
success.
Living Whist followed, with DR.. Wizard,
Dana Perkins, Jr., George II. Clark and
H. Il. Yardley as players. The titty-two
representatives of the cards were j. f..
Nichols (the joker, }. Il. Week, Carrie
Estes, Dan McCarty, Nellie kellogg, j..
Lindner, E. d. Olney, Lolita krebs, Fred
Buchanan, Emma Ehmann, Maude
Henry, 6. L. Nay, Mamie Gore, q. w.
Kirk patrick, Mrs. f. NJ. Egan, Clare
Root, f. w. Greider, Agnes Ryan, Chas.
Hill, X. Quinn, K. @. Porter, May Bur-
CESS, Ethel Grant, Blanche Hawk. l.. 4. .
Jacox, Nina Mott, b. V. Laveile, Carrie
Eaton, q. Frichette, THEODORE Milliken, j..
C. Green, William Sayre, O. a. Elder.
Minnie Todhunter, Frank c. Schuler,
Edna Ficks, Ii. J. Spanjer, Mrs. George
Groves, George Larkin, Mabel Crandell,
Carrie Ehmann, Amy Medley, Amanda
Titheringon, Harry Gates, Alice Root,
Heber Woods, Cora Eldred, j. Open
heiner, Nettie Cantrell and Genevieve
Henry.
The court cards were in costume as
closely as may be resembling the figures
upon the ordinary playing cards; the
other players were in evening dress, and
wore upon the shoulder, the waist and
on sashes the card they represented. The
game was preceded by beautiful march,
followed by the shuttle. the cut and the
selection OF the hands. The thirteen
tricks were then played, each player adj
vancing card representative to the CEN
ter of the hall, and these four executing a
dance These were Spanish y ork, Har-
ford gavotte, waltz minuet, Aurora waltz
(the gem of ALL, stately minuet, caper,
bonton gavotte, Trovata, oxford minuet,
Assembly gavotte, Tiptoe schottische,
Badger gavotte (the latter preceded by a
Spanish castiDet dance by Miss Ethel
Grant, very handsomely executed), and
finally the Academy waltz.
All the dances were more than attract
i've, and all were executed with grace
and without single mistake. Ger
tainly the participants were entitled to
the rounds of applause they received.
Then followed Quaker Duet" by
Idalene and LOttie O'Malley, clever
old d-hme burlesque, and then the Louis
XIV. minuet, by the kings and queens.
under the shifting colored electric lights,
The performers were j. X. Week, G. l..
Nay, l.. A. JacoX and II. J. Spanjer as
kings, and Miss Nina Mott, Mrs. George
Groves, Miss Carrie Estes and Miss
Mamie Gore as the queens.
A great deal of amusement was the re-
suit of the very clever personation of the
Joker. The gentleman who took the part
costumed it grotesquely and seized the
opportunity to give comic dance excel
lently-but in the game he was ruthlessly
''discarded."
The whole as spectacle was one of the
handsomest and best presented ever seen
here The audience was thoroughly well
pleased, and manifested its qualification
in very complimentary terms and ap-
plause.
The entertainment will be repeated this
evening. 1t is we'll worth seeing. At the
conclusion Of the programme there will
be general dancing.