Evening journal., 1898-10-25
THE TEMPLE OF FAME
Successful Opening of the
Great Charity Last Night.
SOCIETY FOLK IN BLACK FACE
THE GEORGIA CAKE WALK, A
FEATURE OF AN EVENING DE
VOTED TO DANCES, ALL OF
WHICH WE'RE PRETTY, GRACE
Full AND INTRICATE.

With an immense audience present,
the Temple Of Fame was opened for a
week at the Grand Opera House last
might. When the curtain went up near
ly every seat in, the house was occu-
pied, and the stage presented a novel
and attractive picture, with the antis-
tically decorated booths, the throne Of
the goddess and her attendants, and
the brightly cotumed, graceful dam
GERS.
The entertainment opened with two
excellent selections by the Delaware
Saengerbund, under the direction OF
Professor c. A. Hartman. Then Miss
Eleanor Going Walton, the goddess.
and her attendants, in graceful Gre
clan costume, appeared and Miss Wal
ton made brief address, asking the
patronage of the audience and all per-
sons to vote for their favorite dancers
to aid her in bestowing the laurel
wreath.
When the goddess had taken her seat
dancing began and continued two
hours. To single out any one dance
would be unjust, for each dancer old
his or her best, and went through the
many difficult figures without a. break.
They were drilled by Professor A. S..
Webster. The German Harvest dance
was the first and proved one OF thc
.prettiest and most popular OF the even
ing The participants wore the PIC
turesque German peasant costumes, ths
men carrying small rakes, covered with
evergreen, and the girls wearing
punches OF wheat at their corsage. This
dance was chaperoned by Mrs. F. L.
Gilpin, Mrs. Tilghman Johnston, Mrs
j. w. Williamson and Miss Elizabeth
Candy. The dancers were Miss Anna
Taylor. Miss Elsie Thomas, Miss Rosa
Thompson. Miss Name Jenney, Miss
Cora Edward. Miss Gertrude O'Toole,
Miss Mary Ziegler, Miss Jessie Muir
ply, Miss Clara Bingham, Miss Gertie
Ilackey, Miss Maud Grier, Miss Anna
Mil.in, Miss Harriet Stidham, William
Pritchebt, Paul Taggart, William stra-
horn, John Braunstein, Louis Brad
ford, Millard Turner Eugene Hart,
Harry Hilligas. Edward H. Brennan,
Jr., John Hamilton, William Taylor,
John Snyder. John Hale, Forrest Pyle,
Frank Mccoy and Theodore Dixon.
A dainty and effective dance was
'Springtime." in which fifteen young
women appeared in apple green robes
and with flowing hair, and carrying
branches OF apple blossoms. The cha-
perones were Mrs. William Belts, Mrs.
William f. Sellers and Mrs. N. B. Dam
forth, and the dancers Misses Edna
Thomas, Mary Jones, Edith Poo.e,
Rhoda Connor, Mary Hawkins, EieanOr
Shaw, Fannie AlcCausland, Caroline
Lobdtll, Edith Danforth, Alice Gala
CHER, Alice Connor, Elizabeth Murphy,
Jessie Lungren, Mary Kent and Helen
Van Trump.
A clever and striking dance was that
of the Hungarian gypsies. The COS
TUNES were bright and pretty, and the
tinkling tambourines of the men and
the clicking castonets Of the girls add
ed to the general effectiveness. During
the dance Miss Lorraine Lynch, the
gypsy queen, did a graceful solo dance
and Mrs. YOnson, who was an opera
singer in Sweden, sang a quaint gypey
air in a sweet, we,l-trained voice. Hei
costume was OF the ideal gypsy type
The dancers were Misses Elizabetf
Warner, Bertha Lindsey, Helen Scott
Bessie Hopton. Rena Mitchell, ElsI
Beltz, Minnie Palmer, Susie Dickinson
BERTHE Dickinson. Mary Rossell, Adal
Bennett, Ida Gallagher, Arthur II
Carpenter, E. F, Mullin, William Mask
]. 7. Wickersham, ATmond Chagtc-
Harry Bonham, George Middleton, Pau
Killen and George Daley. They wer
chAperoned by Mrs. John Bancroft ant
Mrs. John Palmer.
The Lotus Lilly dance, by Miss CLAIR
Bingham and Miss Blanche Browne
and chaperoned by Mus. Willard Ia.
r Porter and Mrs. LaMotte DUPONT wa
i exceptionally dainty and pretty an
/ elected rounds OF applause. The Dais
Chain, danced by Misses Mary ZeigleI
a Elsie Thomas. Carolyn Mccall, Flor
ence Cann. Gertrude Iackey and Jesei
Murphy, was a favorite one. The cha
perones were Mrs. Edward Bringhurs
/ and Miss Mary Bringhurst.
The Georgia Cake Walk" was tn
!, feature Ct the evening. All the partic.
), pants in this appeared under assume
names, and the audience failed TO dis
cover the identity OF the walkers. A
the participants were blacked and wor
o costumes such as would be seen at an
r swell cake walk of the "colored 400.
4 The steps made in getting around th
cake convulsed the audience wit
laughter and the dancers were give