The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19
CHILDREN n OF ST. MARYS S
Brilliant Christmas Festival
of the Cathedral
School.
Beautiful Tableaux of the Nativity
Events Presented by Boys
and Girls.

The Christmas festival of St. Mary's
Cathedral Sunday-school took place last
evening before large audience in Ma
tional Hall on Ellis street, near Van Ness
avenue. For spectacular beauty, for re-
fined representations of events associated
with the nativity and for varied enter
tainment by children, the festival was
novelty and excellent in every feature. 1t
was composed mainly of tableaux, musical
selections and little plays which gave the
children an opportunity to be seen in
attractive roles. Archbishop Riordan Was
present, and among the priests in the
audience were Rev. Fathers Prendergast,
McQuade, Muiligan and Dempsey.
The programme was long, but it went
off smoothly without delays or hitch of
any kind. CoIored calcium lights lent
their charm to the spell of the beautiful
tab.eaux, while in every spectacle the cos
tunes of the children were peculiarly
effective.
The programme was as follows:
Part I-Overture, dramatic (FerrazzD,
"Christmas Bells.'' choir; recitation, "Jes'
Fore Christmas" May Horn; tableaux vivsnts
"Les Escharpes''; fancy dance, Gertie O'Con-
nor.
Part I-Selections from Bohemian GirP'
(Balfe) Sacred Heart College orchestra I;
tableau, angels Serenade,' children of Sun
Lowry. Play. Homage TO the Infant King"
Dramatis person8-Archangel Belle Muir
ply; Angel, Evelyn Wooden; Zephyr, Nav
O'Connor; Earth, Marion Hennessy; Spring
Hazel Dodge; Summer, May Horn; Autumn,
Minnie Otto; Winter, Marie Stark; heralds-
Gertie OConnor, Ramona Radcliffe, Irma
Giesting, Agnes Otto, May Wanicke, Tressa
Hanalos, Loretta Donohue. Alice McKenna,
Lucille Radcliffe, Mary Watson, Irene White,
May Fisher, Addie BrickIey, Gertie Tormey.
Part III-Selections, "Moore's Melodies" :"
Miss Z. Casey; tableau .'Tidings of Great joy
boys of Sunday-school; review, Our Fan Bri-
gade"; fancy dancing, Charlie and May
Part IV-solo and chorus, "Noel," choir,
SOLOS is = Jennie Nichols n, Marie Venchi-
arutti, chorus in unison-Ju. let Bertaud, Ma
rion Hennessy, Mary Mccarthy, Maude Yulice-
'sFirst Love Gavotte,'' S. H. c. orchestra.
christmas Tree ''-Dramatis persona: John
Wolf, an old farmer. Frank ]. Sullivan; Ann
Wolf, his wife, Margaret Nesfeld; Lena, their
daughter, Cesca Rogers; Frederick Hammer,
their son-in-law, William Z. L ahy Martha
Hammer. their daughter, Helen Stevens; Will
Martha, Masters Brickley and Armstrong;
finale, ''Marksmen's Parade March, (Fahr-
bach), S. H. c. orchestra.
The participants in the various numbers
of the programme are as follows:
Choir-stena Baccus, Viola Bacigalupi,
Edna Barnes, Helena Bellew, Juliet Bertaud,
Marie Bertaud, Clotilde Besby, Addie Brick
ley, Josie Craven, Clarisse Culligan, Pet Culli-
gan, Frances Denechaud, Alice Donohue, Lucy
dunno, Emily Gusco, Alice Gowan, Bessie
Gowan, Edith Gowan Adrien Guitard, Milie
Handles, Kittie Hay, May Healy, Marion Hen
messy, Mary Mccarthy, Grace Mckenzie, Mar
garet Nesfeld, Jennie Nicholson, irene Otto,
Minnie Otto, Agnes Slattery, Marie Stark,
Genevieve st. Clair, Helen Stevens, Emma
Stevenson, Lillian SULLIVAN, Genevieve
Thomas, Mabel Trigg, Marie Venchiarutti,
Maude Vulicevich, Kittie Wilton, Maggie
Yarrow and Queenie Mulroney.
Fan brigade-Marie Bertaud, Alice Donohue
Alice Gowan, Edith Gowan, Queenie Mulroney
May Kelly, Irene Otto, Lillian Sullivan.
Les Escharpes-Stella Baccus, Viola Baciga-
lupi, Alice Donohue, Emma Estes, Marie Fitz-
maurice, Mary Guerin, May Kelly Carrie Led
den, Lillian Sullivan.
Tableau (shepherds)-C. Byrne, Matt Cana
van, James Casey. Joseph Casey, j. Doody,
John Flatley, David Glennon, j. Goyhenix. e.
Hogan, Robert Rogers; angel, Clement Mil
ward.
Tableau-"Angels' Serenade"-Blessed Vir-
gin, Juliet Bertaud angels-Helena Bellew,
Cloti!de Besby. Addie Brickley, Maize Burns.
Kittie Cole. Angela Coyle, May Coyle, Clarisse
Culligan, Kittie Gull, Pet Culligan, Frances
Deneehaud, Lucy Dunno, FlossIe Estes Bessie
Gowan, Mile Handles, May Healy Mabel
Meade, Agnes Satterv, Florence Murphy
Marguerite O ODonnell, May o 'Donnell, Emma
Stevenson, Belle Mcdonald, Irene White, Kitty
Wilton, Maggie Yarrow.
The school has a membersh ip of 600 and
q teaching corps OF fifty, who instruct the
children in the New Testament, Bible his
tory, church history and the catechism of
Christian doctrine