The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
MRS. BAKERS RECITAL.
Interesting Interpretation Of
T B. Aldrieh's Poetry
Who Were There.


A large and enthusiastic audience last
evening attended the interpretative re-
cital by Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, under
the auspices Of the faculty and pupils of
the Hasbrouck institute. The entertain
ment was held at Hasbrouek Hall, and
the ushers. Messrs. Arthur Hasking,
Clinton Fisk, ]. H. Lippincott and Carl G
Metzler, were kept busy seating the peo-
pie. Patriotic airs were played by Gram
mer and eItcored by those present. Col
umbia,o yankee Doodle georgia
my Country Ills Of Thee" Dixie, and
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" were re-
ceived with much patriotic enthusiasm.
Mr.. G. c.. Stimets, Superintendent of the
Institute, introduced Miss Baker, saying
that it nae been customary for some years
past for the Institute. to give a dramatic
entertainment under the auspices of Miss
Amelia B. Meyers, but this year Miss
Myers had been successful in securing
Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, whom he then
introduced.
Mrs. Bakers first selection was Thomas
Bailey Aldrich's "In ar Atlier." Those
familiar with the piece will remember it
tells of an artist painting a picture and
at the same time making love to his
model. In this recital Mrs. Baker brought
the scene very wildly before her audience.
1t was easy, under The spell of her elocu-
ton, to imagine the studio, the artist,
the model and the canvas
Her next selection was Mr.. Aldrich's
Goliath This she treated in the same
clever manner, taking her audience all
the way from the meeting of the two old
chums, when Watson asks David to visit
him at his country home, to the latter's
arrival at The Briers. She brings the
different Genes before the audience in
such a way that one could shut his eyes
and see the entire episode just as it hap
pened.
The feature of the entertainment was
Mrs. Bakers third recitation, Judith and
Holofernes.' Here, too, she carried her
audience with her through all the scenes,
the old tower. the city streets, the tents
of Holofernes. and, living again in her
own impersonation, Judith. Mr.. Aldrich
may well be proud of his interpreter, for
Mrs. Baker lives each character as she
recites it, and her movements and ges-
lures are grace itself. Mrs. Baker re-
ceived a beautiful bouquet of Jack roses
with the card of Miss Amelia B. Myers
attached. Dancing followed the pro-
| granme.
Among those present were:lMiss Ber-
tina Kuntz Baker, Miss Amelia B. Myers,
Miss A. Morris, Captain and Mrs. New
bury, Miss May Oakley, Mrs. Mclean,
Mrs. O.. McKabe, Mrs. Forman, Miss May
Forman, Mrs. P. W. Lee. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lindsey, Mrs. Crosby, Miss Kate Speers,
| Miss Speers, Mr.. and Mrs. David B. Day,
Mrs. Kid, M. d; t he Misses White, Miss
N. Holbrook, Miss Alpha Holbrook, Miss
Matte Nordine, Mrs. G. w. Clerihew,
Miss Florence Clerihew, Miss Addie Cler-
thew, Mrs. Miller. Miss Bessie Speers,
Miss Edith MacKey, Miss Susie Sands,
Miss Rackford. Miss Blake, Miss Ma
| ME Reynolds, Miss Blanche Shafer,
| Miss Josephine Van Horne, Miss Emma
Van Horne, Miss Margaret Page, Miss Ell
Ia Guillan, Miss Mamie Brown. Miss May
Gravalt, Miss ennie Ransom, Mrs. Cham
berlain, Miss Jennie Chamberlain, Miss
Mabel Snow, Miss Jennie Wandefi, Miss
Mabel Wait, Miss Florence Wait, Miss
Alice Furst, Mrs. Myran B.. Furst, Miss
Louise Farrant, Miss Helen Ray, Mrs
! Heike, Miss Louise Heike, Messrs. Hor-
ace C. Waite, G. C.. Stimets, Rudolph
Heike, Frank Dobson, Harry Blauvelt,
| JOHN Cravalt, Douglas Pendleton, Abiel
Williamson, David Hilton. Eveland Watts
| Stephen Lewis, A. Newkirk, Rob Bulman,
Charles Watts, Carl G.. Metzler, Clinton
| Fisk, j. H. Lippincott, Benz. Farrier,
Isaac Quimby, Havilard Tompkins. Ger
ard Crosby. Harry Woolsey, Webster
Morgan, VIII Nelson, C. Post, A. Rath
and John SNYDER