The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-02
IT WAS A SUCCESS.
Benefit for the Church Home Was
MeritOriOus.


The entertainments given at Unity
hall last evening for the benefit of the
Church Home of the Diocese Of Min
nesota was a success in every particu-
lar. The audience was large, the pro-
gramme attraCtiVely arranged and rem
dered in manner wholly creditable
to the managers and participants. There
was not hitch in the programme
from beginning to end and the young
people cast in the two dramatic per-
formances handled their parts with
an accomplishment which bespoke
careful preparation
The Fairies Revel,' as arranged by
Mrs. Harvey Officer, was the opening
piece, and the clevernesS and grace of
the children, handsomely costumed as
the inhabitants of fairyland, furnished
entertainment of a most enjoyable ma
ture. The production was prettily
staged and the dainty little fairies tru-
ly reveled about their picturesque do
main, to the accompaniment of music
and song, in a spirit Of joyOusneSs al
most beyond the Imagination of a Hans
Anderson. Fourteen petite maidens
composed the fairy band. With vari-
ously colored costumes and wreaths
of flowers rhythmically waving to
the accompanying music, they danced
and sung with an abandon and grace
truly suggestive of the ethereal crea-
lures whom they represented AS
queen of the fairy band, Miss Jessie
Holloway was typically q regal sprite,
while Master Tommy Sven, as the Sir
Knight in search of the home of the
fairies, was good both as a juvenile
actor and vocalist. Little Irene Ore
gan, as Fairy Butterfly, was a most
bewitching bit of humanity, whose
dancing was a feature of the enter
tainment. A wee tot of scarcely six
n1 0I1,ti L.
Loie Fuller. which won the most en-
thusiastic encores. The remainder of
the fairy band was as follows:
Edna Gooch, Georgina Dittman Pearl Met
calf Grace Thompson, Evelyn Officer, Blanche
Terry, Florence Hardiek, Julia Ladd Ethel
Haynie, Theresa Nolan HERNIA Gregory Alice
MaXheld, Edith Holman.
Miss Gordon was accompanist.
The second part of the programme
consisted in the presentation of an op-
eretta entitled "a Dress Rehearsal by
company Of young women from Mer-
Ram Park. The scenes of the produc-
ton are laid in boarding school, where
the young misses, finishing their educa-
ton, conceive the idea Of giving a dra-
matte entertainment. The play is to be
a farce, but to gain the consent of the
principal Of the institution to it's pre-
sentation, it is allowed to be under
stood as a scene from Shakespeare
The climax is reached when the girls
are discovered rehearsing their parts
in manner not quite suggestive of
the productions of the immortal Will
ham, The cast, made up as follows,
was efficient:
Miss Jones principal of Grove House
academy ........................M Mrs. Crosby
Mile Epinard French governess)-
Miss Louise Hiltgen
Amy Fibbs afterwards Cinderila)-
Miss Florence Brainerd
Clara Wilkins (Afterward the prince)-b
Mrs. G. A. Coykendall
Sara Ann CThe greedy glrD-
Mrs. Porter Eastman
sophonisba Spivins CThe romantic girl)-
Miss Mabel CowIes
marina higgins ............ Miss Caddie Frisk
OdIIte JACKSON MISS lnga Erickson
afterwards the spiteful sisters)
Hump1e ............. Miss Maud Bradbury
Mrs. Jarvey (Eloeution mistressl-
Miss Bernice Chamberlain
Miss Prudence Pinchbeck CA visitor)-
Miss Catherine Stauffer
Rose Jennings afterwards fairy god
mother) Mrs. d. H. Eastman
Scene-Grove House Academy.
Accompanist-Mrs. Harry CrandaJl
Two readings, "Knee Deep in June"
and "The Fishing Party" by Charles
w. Farnham, were features of the pro-
gramme appreciated by the audience.