Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-26

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 Miss Carrie Braun. s.
 Grand march, "The Majestic" q. M. Boyee)-Misses Horton, Rogers, M. Smith, Clifford, F. Eabb, J. Norris, A. Smith, Shelton, Handley Walker, Jordan, Head Ferguson, Sloss, Hutton and Mas ter Moran.
 Vocal solo, "Serenade" -(Neidlinger)- Mss Bertha Woodward.
 Vocal duet "Wennich ein Voglein War" (Schumann)-Messrs. Cartwright and Handley.
 Solo, piano forte, "capriccio" (Mendels- sohn)-Miss Virginia Walker. Second piano accompaniment.
 Quartette, vocal, "Eldorado" (PinsutD Miss Woodward Mrs. A Smith, Messrs. Cartwright and Shepherd
 To avoid length of programme at this season of the year many available stu dents are not taking part
 This concert is complimentary to the students and their friends by invitation.
 Bobby Shafto," the pretty play to be
 produced Thursday. May 2S, at the opera
 house, is for the benefit of Temple Eman-
 uel
 The plot of this pretty children's play
 is both pretty and simple. The curtain
 rises upon picnic scene, children are
 discovered dancing, singing and playing
 in honor of Bobby Shafto's (Miss Millie
 Nabb) birthday, who is If years old. Dur
 ing this celebration Mabel Wheelock will
 sing Mary and John." Ethel Black will
 sing Don't be Cross" when Mother
 Goose Milton Fies) enters and gives the
 children little scolding for making so
 much noise. She then announces the ar
 rival of Bobby's sweetheart, Nida (Ma-
 rion Meyer), who enters riding lowered
 bicycle. Mother Goose spies a lot of
 little 4-year-olds playing mama" with their dolls. She marches them down to the front of the stage and makes them
 sing baby songs. They will be dressed
 in their "nighties' and caps. The follow ing little misses will participate in this: Bertha Bernstein, Selma Blank, Minna Dreyfus, Emel McCrossin, Bessie Me Crossln, Estelle Nabb, Rose Rubel, Cor rinne Somners, Meta Sehwab, Fannie Well, Edna Wald and Cordie Lopez. Inn mediately following this Minna Dreyfus, charming little black-eyed miss, will sing T Don't Want to Play in Your Yard' At this point the children see Bobby Shafto coming down the road. They give him birthday cheers as he en- ters, dancing the sailors hornpipe. Then follows a. love song between Bobby and Nda, highland fling by Gertrude Ehr- man in pretty costume, when the cur tain falls upon the children marching to Bobby's house for dinner. In the follow ing entre act Nida is sitting at her spin
 ming wheel singing sadly of Bobby, who is at sea. Mother Goose enters, bringing Nida a letter from Bobby, who Is sick at sea. Nida falls in a faint, while the
 scene opens at back of stage, showing a vision of Bobby lying sick in bed, with spirit (Miss Amelia Markstein) hover
 ing over him, singing that beautiful song, Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer The curtain descends slowly upon this song. Act 1.-The curtain rises upon ball
 room in Midas home. She is to marry another Cher parents command) as the curtain rises. Flower girls for Midas wedding discovered nOGiOQ in
 rious banquets. Each little girl will rep resent a flower and carry garland. The following misses are in this dance: Re gina Black, Melanie Block, Marie Hudg- ins, Mena Holzer, Carrie Jacobs, Helen Kaufman, Flossie Lazarus, Minnie F. Lazarus, Minnie l.. Lazarus, Lillie Meyer, Nellie Permission, Georgette Permission, Mataline Royster Hannah Well and Ma bel Wheelock. After this Nida enters bemoaning her sad fate of being welded to one she does not love and renewing her expressions for Bobby Shafto, whom she has reason to believe is lost at sea. Here a gypsy (Marcelle Klotz) enters and tells Nida her fortune, that Bobby is alive and is coming back to her this very night. The gypsy then dances a belero and exits. Nida jumps with joy at this good news and dances a pretty solo here. Mother Goose comes on clapping her hand and cries bravo to Nida; bugle call is
 heard, Mercury (Minnie Dreyfus) flies in dnu dlllT1llS lHc SypSy D SOOu hCWo. hOi-
 cury here dances a beautiful solo and exits. Nida dances once more for joy. Bobby, in a magnificent admiral suit, steals on, with his back to Nida. She bumps against him, recognizes him, and they tell each other of how they passed their time, when the celebration for the wedding now opens with the following very pretty features:
 Dance Anita, very gracefully executed
 by Ethel Clifford. Minnie Y. Lazarus,
 dressed as an awkward boy, recites "So Was l." piece new to Birmingham and taught her by Rosalind Mahler for this occasion A Delsarte Advertisement Is next given by MT Mahler's daughter, Rosalind. Here follows beautiful scarf group, with eleven pretty misses, who form tulip, roses, butterflies, etc., and the following misses take part in this. dress ed in Greek costumes: Ethel Black, May Bernheim, Fannie Sandman, Edna Coughlan, Ethel Clifford, Gertrude Ehr- man, Rosa Kaufman, Marcelle Klotz, Florence McCrossin, Marcelle Rothschild and Annie Sullivan. Next Helen Kauf- man, who has good voice, sings Mud Pie Days" Following this the audience
 will be treated to the comical Chinese
 dance, Tn which the following boys, brellas, will put the audience in good
 humor Samuel Bloch Irwin Fies, Mer- lin Herzfeld Leroy Jacobs, Raymond
 Klotz, Myron Lazarus, Phil Levy, Aaron Lopez, Dixon McCroSS1n, Ned McCrossln, Arthur Steiner and Melville Sommers. A
 song, and pretty one, too, "Tll be True
 to My Honey Boy" will be sung by Mar
 celle Rothschild, with negro walk and action. The tramp of the broom drill is now heard and on comes the chamber maids, explained by Rosalind Mahler, in
 pure white. They drill, form stars,
 squares, etc., and they have surprise
 in store for t1se audience The following
 ladies, dressed in red skirts, white shirt
 waists, white fichus, white aprons and
 chambermaids' dusting caps: Misses Ce-
 lia Bresler, Tessie Fraleigh, Amelia
 Markstein, Blanche Rothschild, Helen
 Wise. Cora Loeb, Jessie Lazarus, Ophelia Levy, Bessie Hart, Estelle Slaughter,
 Florence Wertheimer and Hattie Laza-
 rus. The play closes with the tambou-
 rine dance, with the following: Edna
 Coughlan, Ethel Clifford, Gertrude Ehr-
 man, Milton Fies, Marcele Klotz, Marion
 Meyer, Rosalind Mahler and Millie Nabb.
 The entire play has been taught and