The San Francisco call., 1896-10-17
.FA|RYLAND At
THE CALIFORNIA
The Operetta of 4" The Rival
Queens" This After
noon.
A Veritable Midsummer Nights
Dream Under the Electric
Lamps.
EIFINs. COLLINS AND FAIRIES.
To Be Gwen for the Benefit of the
Children's Hospital by Ninety.
Six Performers.
EIFINs. COLLINS AND FAIRIES.

This afternoon "Fairyland" will come
to the stage of the California Theater and
under the mellow light the scene will be
a veritable midsummer Nights Dream"
Two rival queens will wave their wands
and contend for the sovereignty over the
elfin people forever. Among fairies there
are sometimes little disagreem ents which
happily soon end, and the sun, or rather
the moon, for fairies have no existence in
the garish day, shines again.
Moreover, as the little sprites will come
IN the name of charity the common OBJ
iect of their appearance will Danish the
spirit of anything like "horrid war;"
For several days the ladies and gentle
men interested in the cause of the Chill
dren's Hospital have been Transforming
the California into bower of woodland
beauty. The stage will be forest where
the tiny mortals dwell. Real flowers and
garlands will cover the painted scenes
and Queen Rose will rule her rural king
dom from throne as blooming as her lit
tie majesty's title. And the elf guards,
the butterfly pages and the goblin attend
ants will be as real as ever trooped through
the courts of Nab.
The dainty operetta "The Rival
Queens which was first given by its
ninety-six child performers in Alameda
with such success, was written by Miss
Camilla E. Lies and set to music by
Charles II. McCurrie. The piece this
afternoon is to be under the direction OF
the following ladies': Music, Mrs. Charles
Smith; dancing, Miss C. Gam BILE; stage
and elocution, Miss Belle McCurrie;
stage decoration, Miss Clara Fisher. Miss
Gamble Will be assisted by Professor
Chapman, and the orchestral melodies
will be given by the pupils of the Sacred
Heart College of this City under the
leadership of Professor Shernstein.
The principal characters are: Rose,
queen of the fairies, Marjorie Moore,
granddaughter OF Captain Roberts of this
City; Nightshade, queen OF gobiins, Hazel
Thane of Niles. This young lady is the
bad little queen of the play, and disputes
with Rose the very throne OF fairy land.
She even tries to captivate a mortal,
into the fay dominions, but, like all
villains, is foiled. The Prince is Una
Farweather, daughter of Henri Fair
weather, the musician. Talfa, the elf
page to Rose, is Eileen McCurrie, and the
maids of honor, Lily and Violet, are
Marjorie Arnold and Marion Hovey re-
spectively.
There is one lone masculine in all that
fairy realm of girls; but as he is Cupid he
holds his own, as usual, in that fair COM
pany. He is Edward Won Schmidt Jr., a
four-year-old, with golden baby-curls,
dove wings and all the accessories of the
god of love. The rest of the cast is as
follows:
Butterfly pages that draw the chariot of
Queen Rose-Hazel Roger, Alma Hollenbeck,
Alice Teller, Ethel Mitchell. Little cleaning
baby things. five years old.
Pages to Queen OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Nc
Currie, Treasure Heister.
Guards to the Goblin Queen-Eva Matthews,
Mabel O'Brien.
Lords-Emma Graves, Ida Maloon, Merle
Francis. May Bell Parker. These will dance
the serpentine..
Fairfes-Carrie Gerald Rose Won Schmidt,
Alexine Mitchell, Ella Meyer, Florence Parker,
Grace Bates, Emily Meyer Marie Toutain, Min
ME Lieber, Roselet Henderson, Ruth Sadler.
Caroline Schenck, Louise Frier. Maudie Fisher,
Norma Whitney, Lille Olsen, Ida Maloon,
Marjorie Arnold, Marion Hovey, Mabel Clark
Almah Holienback, Eta Mazzini, Bessie Hard
man, May Morton, Stella Morton, Elsie Woodin,
Catherine Scarf, Leslie HutcheIson, Hazel
Midget, Lulu Rosmarin, Lita Bates, Lurline
Matterson, Kathleen Lenahan, Merle Francis,
Ze da Midget, Ethel Vincent, Isabel Never
Marion Lally. Olive Dillon.
Goblins : Marie schenck, Edith White,
Marion MITCHELL Sylvia McCurrie, Margaret
;Ioutain, Anna Meyer, Carrie Bates, Eta RAN
lett, Amelia Zimmerman. Emma Meserole,
Mabel Evans, Eleth Holleu pack Eva Matrheis.
Mabel O'Brien, Miriam Mattheis, Sybil Tripp,
Mlidreo Tripp, Florence Garcia, Treasure
Hester, Louise Adams, Ray Reynolds, Flor
ence Thomas, Rebecca Meserole, Florence
Palmer. Fen Wheeler, Mabel Smith, Irene
Thomas.
Huntsmen - Alba Clark, Andrew Yates.
Ernest Wilson, Robert Stever, Robert vaileau.
George Curtis, E. P Dobley Herbert Har-
bourne, William Rice, Harry La Juenesse, Sid
Shepard. 6. L. Lewis, James Greenwell, Alex
Booth, Basil Ward Lawrence Elester, Willie
Howe, Walter Hovey.
The operetta was written by Miss Ca
milla Lees when she was only 10 years
old and is remarkable pieces OF work for
one so young. Since then she has revised
it, but the infantile beauty of the compo- |
sition still remains. So great has been !