Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-17
A TREAT FOR THE TOTS.
bobby Shafto" and His Sprites WIN Minister
to Their Mirth at 0'Brien's on Thurs
day Night.

To happy children pretty airs and
graces are as natural and spontaneous as
breathing or laughing, and for this rea-
son drills and kindred performances, in
which little folks are the actors, are easy
to arrange and are sure to be artistic
If reasonable attention is given to prac-
tice and detail. No sculptured conception
of the graces can exceed in charm a
group of daintily attired little maidens
engaged in a pleasing movement for the
entertainment of an admiring audience.
Sweetly unconscious of themselves and
of the spectators they enter with en-
thusiasm into every figure, their bright
faces showing the real pleasure they feel,
and so enlivening the pretty pictures
that the most ordinary accessories VIII
be sufficient to complete them satisfac-
torily.
"Bobby Shafto' is most admirably
adapted to the pleasure of small children,
and provides delightful and an appro>
PIRATE light entertainment for summer
amusement. 1t includes such a variety
of beautiful and unique figures that II
is hard to conceive OF anything prettier
or more picturesque than this play, which
is in contemplation for performance on
Thursday night, May %, at the opera
house. for the benefit of Temple Emanuel,
under the direction of Jacob Mailer.
The various figures as enumerated be-
low will give US an opportunity OF seeing
familiar, pretty faces in beautiful dances
and drills, surrounded by artistic color
ings and scenery. and promises to out
rival anything of the kind that has ever
been attempted in Birmingham.
Caste.
Bobby Shafto........ 1900: Mile Naop
Nida Observation-Disclosures. Marion Meyer
Mother Goose Milton Flies
Gypsy ..,.... $500. Marcelle Klotz
Mercury .................Mi nna Dreyfus
Spirit ........ Miss Amelia Markstein
Flower girls-Regina Black, Melamie
Block Marie Hudgins Mena Holzer, Car
RE Jacobs, Helen Kaufman, Flossie Laz-
arus, Minnie F. Lazarus, Minnie Lazarus,
Lille Meyer, Kathleen Nixon, Nellie Pen
niston, Georgette Permission, Mateline
Royster Hannah Well Mabel Wheelock,
Lucia Worl. 81
Scarf bearers-Ethel Black, May Bern
helm Fannie Bandman. Edna Coughlan,
Ethel Clifford Gertrude Ehrman, Rosa
Kaufman, Marelle Klotz, Florence Nc
Crossin, Mareelle Rothschild. Annie Sui
Ivan. -f.es -
Baby march--Bertha Bernstein, Selma
Blank, Minna Dreyfus, Irma Levi, Annie
McCrossin, Bessie McCrossin, Estelle
Nabb, Rose RubeL Corinne Sommers,
Fannie Well, Edna Walds Cordie Lopez
Tambourine dance-Edna Coughlan,
Ethel Clifford. Gertrude Ehrman. Milton
Flies, Marcele Klotz, Marion Meyer, Ro-
Chinese dance-Samuel Bloch, Irwin
Flies, Merlin Herzfeld, Leroy Jacobs, Ray
mond Klotz, Myron Lazarus, Phil Levy,
Aaron Lopez, Dixon McCrossin, Ned Nc
Crossin, Arthur Steiner, Melville Som
mers.
Specialties.
| Cupid dance-Irma Levi.
| Song, standing on the Corner" Edna
Coughlan; song, Mud Pie Days" Helen
Kaufman; recitation, 80 Was /" Minnie
F. Lazarus; song, I'll Be True to My
Honey Boy" Marcelle Rothschild; song,
Don't Be Cross" Ethel Black; song.
Mary and John" Mabel Wheelock;
dance, Anita" Ethel Clifford; dance.
Gypsy" Marcelle Klotz; dance, "Mer-
curry" Minna Dreyfus; Nida dance, Ma
rion Meyer; hornpipe, Mile Nabb; Del
sarte solo, Rosalind Mailer: Highland
| fling. Gertrude Ehrman; selection. Mary
| Lyman Stone.
| Broom drill-Misses Tessie Freighley
| Amelia Markstein, Blanche Rothschild,
| Helen Wise, Cora Loeb, Jessie Lazarus
| Matte Lazarus, Ophelia Levy, Bessie
Hart, Estelle Slaughter Florence Vert
| heimer, Flora Solomon; Rosa1ind Mailer
| as captain; Mrs. r. ]. Stone, accompany
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