New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-19
"CINDERELLA" FOR CHARITY.
A MOST ELABORATE PRODUCTION, WITH
MANY NEW FEATURES.

Merriment on the stage and crowds In the seats
at the Metropolitan Opera House should be the
story OF "Cinderella" week from the opening NATL
nee. on Saturday. January 3. to the closing per-
Torrance, on Friday evening January IL. The
amateur element will be most prominent, and the
production of the fairy operetta under the drec-
ton of Mrs. Agnes b. Barnes promises we'll artist.
cally and financially fort the benefit OF the Seton
Hospital for Consumptives, the st. Johns Day
Nursery and kindergarten and st. AIMS Maternity
Hospital. The two last named are branches OF tho
New-York Founding Hospital. and the first is
Spuyten Duyvil Parkway.
All deserving. and the aid to be given them
will % the result Of patient work under good man.
agement and patronage. The change from tho
Christmas week for which It was announced.
should be advantageous. The additional rehearsals
tighten the duties and insure satisfactory repre-
sensations for the od-time fairy story that will
be given a setting worthy Of it. and with a larger
number OF people employed than it has ever had
before in New-York. The speciaties to he
distributed the entire week. each perform
ance will have something new II is estimated
that two thousand persons will do their share on
the stage in behalf Of the charities and have q
fair share OF amusement for themselves. And
there Is a return for their work. since the free In
struction given In singing and dancing is benefit
A place in cinderella will be important
affair In the lives OF many young people. view
OF the rehearsals at the Metropolitan Opera House
afternoon
ness with which the volunteers enter into the
spirit OF the play. The instructors report that
advancement has been rapid with singers and
dancers. and good nature seems all pervading
hundred young women dancing at once makes .
line Of beauty at rehearsal and the gavotts
and the dance representing the roses are already
stage perfect. while tho marches and drills are
bringing the forces together well
The songs arc tuneful and light; some OF them
new and others from familiar operettas. In sew
eral instances. both al the Opera House and at
Brady's Hall. in West One-hundred- and-twenty-
hfth-st.. where the uptown classes are held some
excellent voices have been discovered.
Pupils from the Sunday-schools and other edu-
cationa sources prominent, and number OF
young and women have entered into tho
spirit OF the undertaking and enlisted in what
may I've called the "Cinderella" army to say moth
ing OF the retinue OF knights and herads and
ladies-in-watng following in the train OF the
heroine who the little slipper that gave her
Prince Charming for husband
AS TO Cildcreas. there will be half dozen OF
them. and as many princes The changes OF cast
make this Eumber necessary for the weeks de-
mands. Mrs. Barnes has had more offered than
Among the dances will be a royal Chinese ballet
by sixty young men. Twenty young women as
Dutch dolls. with proper Dutch costumes. wooden
will be jolly and song by Nassar girls and
Columbia boys: there will be eighty young women
dance. minuet and a march representing twenty
nations.
The musical part of the entertainment will be
in the hands of Edward c. Vanguard. assistant
conductor under Frank Damrosch of the Peoples
hearsal of the combined chorus will be on Wednes-
day evening at the Metropolitan Opera House Hall.
With all this and much more that is incidental
there Will be Delsare drills and a Greek dance by
Miss Genevieve Stebbins's School of Expression.
assisted by Norman Ashley. and the pupils from
DE La Sale Institute VIII give their cadet drill
Tickets being rapidly sold. and many family
parties securing seats for special evenings.
The boxes being taken for single nights and
fN-s he 70 aNh ftpnnn ~
are Mr. and Mrs William Lumms. Benjamin r.
LummIs. Mr.. and Mrs Juan NJ. Ceballos, Mrs. Ed;
l. Thebaud. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph o'Brien, Mrs
J. s. Auerbach, Jacob Rupert, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
V Bowler, G. Resens. Mrs. Julia A. Rabors, Mrs
Randolph Guggenheimer. Mrs; Julia Del Valley.
Mrs. Marshall J. McEnnery, Miss a. Leary Clar-
ence NJ. Hyde, Mrs. c. Creiliy. De volney Everett
J. De REVERB, Mrs James Adams Evertt, Mrs.
Mary +. Mllane and Mr.. and Mrs. De Saint
Sevigne.