The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-26
OUT AND ABOUT.

OUT AND ABOUT.
Breezy Point" a comedy drama in
three acts, by Belle Marshall Locke,
was presented last night by pupils OF
Miss Klmballs school, before an audi
ence that crowded All Souls chapel.
The young girls took their several roles
in a very competent manner, rejecting
the greatest credit upon Miss Couch,
the teacher of elocution at Miss Kim
balls school, who has had charge OF
the preparations, and was at the head
of the committee of pupils who had
the affair in hand
The play opened upon sitting room
in the farmhouse of Breezy Point; the
second act showed a gypsy camp in the
woods, and the third returned to the
setting of the first act. Boughs OF
green were arranged above the curtain
OF deep maroon, and the whole stage
effect was remarkably complete and
pretty. There was much bright dia-
logue in the play, which kept the audi
ence interested and amused. In enun-
citation the young actors showed the
effects of careful training; their voices
carried perfectly to the rear of the
chapel and not word was lost to the
audience.
Miss Helen e. Fletcher made a moth
erly Aunt Debby Dexter, mistress of
Breezy Point, and Miss Mary e. Rick
ard was interesting as her adopted
daughter. Miss Marion F. Green, as
Ashrael Grant, workhouse waif, pro
voked much merriment by her sociaf
aspirations and quaint remarks, while
Miss Luie M. Costello was capital as
the old countrywoman with business
propensities. Her daughters, the
twins who never tell nothing" were
Miss Elsa Verder, who infused much
fun into their parts. Miss Helen M.
Hutchins, Miss Grace L. Fairbanks,
Miss r, Maude Webb and Miss Mary
Dodge fitted about in smart shirt
waists and crisp summer finery, as
Aunt Debby's summer boarders, fresh
from boarding school. Miss Anna c.
SoeGberg was engagingly coquettish as
a French maid, and Miss Clara M. La
throp made a good fortune-telling
gypsy.
The young actors were literally APP
plauded. A very pleasant adjunct to
the evening was the music of the Light
Infantry orchestra, which played be-
fore the curtain rose and between the
acts.
M. and Mrs. Henry e. Williams of
Norman road, Newton Highlands, for
merly of Leicester, announce the en-
gagemert of their daughter, Florence
May, to Waldo Edwards Mason, Am
herst, 81, of New York city
The ladies of Piedmont church will
serve a strawberry supper and social in
the church parlors from 6 to o'clock
this evening. Willard F. Small of
Clark university will give readings from
Kipling, and Mrs. Inez Buss- Knowles
will sing.
Mrs. Minerva B. Tobey will speak to-
day at the Boston Store, on What to
eat and how to care for it," Mrs.
Tebey believes that Americans eat too
much; that they eat too much starchy
food and too much sweet stuff; and that
they eat too much meat She is in
favor of mixed diet, which at this
season of the year shall include more
fish, fruit and vegetables, and she
breaches a gospel of salads, which as
yet Americans know but little about
V hole wheat, she says, contains all the
elements required by the body, being
the only grain that does so. Mrs. To-
hey recommends a coarser, simpler diet
u
and thinks that one can economize
on the table more easily than on any
thing else. She will talk about all
these things today and also about the
care of refrigerators. Her last talk
at the Boston Store will be tomorrow
at 2.30 o'clock, after which she leaves
for Springfield.
The first recital of Miss Eliza Loe-
timers pupils was given before a fair
sized audience in Memorial hall last
evening. Seven of the pupils took part
and were assisted by Charles A. Ridg-
way pianist, from the Virgil Clavier
school of Boston.
The program was opened with an ex-
hibition Of the kindergarten methods
by Miss Cora Hjarpe, who has taken
only the kindergarten course. This was
followed with a selection from op 101
of Gurlett, by Miss Alice Eklund, who
has taken two terms of class intruc-
ton. Eugene Roy, who also is of the
kindergarten course, but who has had
the advantage Of rs private lessons,
rendered three difficult selections. Miss
Alice Varme, another kindergarten
graduate, and who has had IS private
lessons, played Spindler's Hunting
song" and Buds and blossoms of
Gurlitt.
Miss Marta Klint, a nine-year-old
pupil of Miss Loethner, and who has
never studied elsewhere, rendered
violin solo, fantasia from Norma"
The second part was given up to the
more advanced pupils, and began with
selections by Miss Christine Nilsson,
who has studied in Europe for two
years and has taken % lessons by the
Virgil method. Miss Laura Anderson.
an exclusive pupil of Miss Loethner,
played several difficult compositions
by Heller, Schubert and Beethoven. BY
request, Miss Loethner sang "The
nightingale" her own composition.
Mr.. Ridgway closed the evening with
four piano selections.
BROMIDE OF ETHYL.