Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-12
The Reading Room Entertainment
at the Atheneum Last Night
q Thorough Success.
The Program Well Rendered and
Pleasing Altogether From
First to Last.
The Features Novel and Beautiful,
and Pleasing to Both Partici-
pants and Audience.

~VAoAAoAdOAo dAAloly VI Uuo
for the success of the affair, the enter
tainment for the benefit of the reading
room took place at the Atheneum last
Tuesday. The hall was we'll filled, as it
is always upon such occasions, the
people of the capital city being ever
liberal in their patronage Of home talent.
It may be safely said that none of those
who attended but were pleased with the
program. The entertainment was a very
creditable one, and from the standpoint
of merit al we'll as from a financial point
Of view it was altogether successful.
To Miss Cora M. Strauss is due the
greater share Of credit for the successful
rendition of the program. She it was,
under whose directions were carried on
the rehearsals and the practice for part
two of the program, and, while much is
due to the grace and adaptability of the
young ladies who were participants, yet
a great measure Of the credit is Justly
accorded Miss Strauss. Her " selec-
tions were pleasing. As a daughter OF
the capital city, it's people are interested
in and pleased with her ability as made
manifest last evening, upon the first oc-
casion of her appearance in public in her
own home. Miss Strauss stage pres
ence is good, and the rendition of her
selections not less pleasing. Her figure
is tall and lissome, and her movements
easy and graceful. There is a smooth
ness of motion, too, always in happy
accord with the varied emotions set forth
in her selections. Careful training is
evident, but blended in such a manner
with a natural understanding Of the ex-
preston which is required to be brought
out, as to be not too apparent, as is too
often the case in the rendition of selec-
tions which require both training and a
natural ability. For variance Of emotion
and for rapidity of transition from the
display Of one expression of feeling to
that of another-frst the sadness and
desolation of lost love, the rapid and
natural change to the bitterness of hate,
and then again the triumph Of the wom-
an-like tendency to forgiveness, and then
utter despair, and finally scorn, bitter
accusation and maledictlon-her rendi-
ton of Leah, the Forsaken," was per-
haps the most telling one of the evening,
although her m%onologue from Mrs. Bur-
ton Harrison, was we'll and naturally
rendered, as were the Sleep Walking
scene from Macbeth, and the Potion
scene. OF her lighter selections, the
country dance wa by far the most tax
ing, and it elected merited and sjgn,i-
cant applause.
Mrs. Porter's voice is always a source
Of pleasure, and it was not less: so last
evening than usual, as betokened by the
encore to each selection. The applause
which greeted Mrs. w. G. Tubbs, proved
that another of Bismarck's ~favorite
daughters, was not forgotten, and her
vocal selections added to the general
enjoyment. The Misses Kittie David.
son and Florence Macnider presided at
the piano, and the selections of each
were apt, and ~pleasingly executed.
And the second part of the program?
Well, when it is said that the particle
pants in the groups were daughters of
Bismarck, much is encompassed in
little, and it may be added that Bis
marck is proud Of them, every n Miss
Strauss posings were graceful and artis-
tic. Easy grace and adaptabillty we're
apparent. and the several group posings
ELECTED the subdued expressions of ad-
miration which r always the most
sincerely indicative of pleasure. The
young ladies, each and every one, acquit-
ted themselves with credit. The cos
TUNES added to the effect, and lent a
tone Of beauty and simplicity. The lights,
too, were effective, and the success of the
novel feature brought out in the posings
was undoubted. a
Those who participated in the posings
were the Misses Strauss, Skeele, Short
ridge, Beardsley, Waggoner, Wakeman,
Taylor, Allen, Francis and Birdie Lam
bert, Braithwaite and Mrs. Jones.
No other sarsaparilla has the merit to
hold the confidence Of entire commune
ties year after year, as has Hoods Sar-
saparilla. It possesses curative power
peculiar to itself.
Iron Thunder Killed.
During the Indian scare at the Stand
ing Rock agency several years ago, when
the country was in a turmoil Of excite
ment, and when brave men we're thought
to be needed to cope with the red men,
should an outbreak occur, none we're Of
greater service, nor did any prove them
selves any Drawer or more courageous.
than the Indian allies Of the whites.
Among these latter was Iron Thunder,
who was revered by his own people, and
was courageous in the greatest degree.
Word was brought to the agency at
Standing Rock last night, that Iron
Thunder had been murdered. The crime