The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-04-08
Providence Opera House.

During the coming week an enter
will be given at the Providence Opera
House for the benefit of the Rhode Is
land Exchange for Woman's Work. IL
, has been arranged by Miss T.. McLaren
Eager, who had charge of those de-
lightful entertainments, the Kermesse
and the Spielkartenfest, which were
given a few years ago.
A Marie Antoinette Fete" will be
the attraction each evening during the
week and il promises to be as charm
ing as any similar entertainment pre-
viously given under Miss Eager's di-
rection. The various characters will
be undertaken by young ladies and gem
tlemen prominent in local society, who
have been carefully and successfully
trained by Miss Eager. and who, IL is
understood have attained degree OF
proficiency that is really remarkable.
The dances and marches Will be espe-
cially attractive, while the costumes
will be sumptuous.
THE Pied Piper OF HamelI' will be
the afternoon attraction and will be
presented by a company OF bright boys
and girls who have had the advantage
Of Miss Eagers skilful drilling for
some time past
The dances ana marches are under
the charge OF Mrs. James Is. Arnold.
Mrs. Arthur L. Brown, Mrs. William
u. Gladding, Miss Ladd, Miss Hunt,
Miss Harrington and Miss Wilson. and
the following children will take part in
them.
Mountaineers' d lane e-Marguerite
Peck, Caroline Peck, Patty Wilson.
Margaret Collier, Harold Waterman.
Evan owen. Newton Hutchinson, Ned
Williams.
Market women's dance-Beth Sully,
Eva Weeden, Mabel Lippitt, Phyllis
fSimban.
Flower girls dance-Dorothy Demp-
ster. Louise Dempster. Cecile Briggs,
Beatrice Brown, Mabel Kngsbury.
Betty Evans. Ruth Oothout.
Peasant dance-MAllie Rocker Rob
bic Porter. Jack Shepard. Allan Bland
ting, Grenville Waterman, Howard
Bates. Earl Davis. Harold Richardson.
Ralph Wilkinson. Margaret Collier.
Esther Tillinghast.
Tyrolean dance-Eiizabeth Sweet,
Florine Underhill, Adah Westcott, Cor
relia Earle. Nella Wattles, Bertha
Budlong, Margaret Collier, Lillian Har-
rison, Dorothy Tyron. Phyllis Mahter.
Nellie Wall, Louise Reach, Sarah Bap-
bitt, Waite Yeaw, Mary Green, Jessie
Coria.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Earle. Horace
Brennan. Charles Parker, George Flint,
Edgar- Hopkins, Howard Collier
Houghton Metcalf, Raymond Ostby.
Preston Mouton, Ellery Wilson, Davis
Arnold.
Village children. rats. mice, etc
Clifton Seymour, Stewart Cady, STAN
ley Cady, Lloyd Rhodes, Willie Lynn.
Robbie Todd. Edward Kirby, Cecil SAL
isbury, Mathew Griswold. Ralph VIII
Hams Erie Horton. Louis Angel, Ed
ward Collier. George Miller Raymond
EDDY Edward Shepard, Allie Frazer,
Robert Shepard. Royal Fink. Richard
Fink. Harold Fink. Nathan Westcott,
Junior Sack, Chester Hayes. Fred Da-
wilson. Chester Higgins, Myron Davis,
Maxwell Barrus. Harold Church. Rob-
ert Church, Charles Webster, James
Tillinghast. Fred Budlong. J. Walter
Chester Hagan, Jesse Cation. Wilbur
Sanford. LorinR Hemenway, Carl
Humphrey. Rachel Mueller. Marion
K.moall. Grace Bernhard, Olive Dow.
Ida Porter. Lorraine Fuller. Louise
prockenborcugh. Edith Angel. BESSIE
Peckham. S,rSe Weaver Alice Nc
Hale. airline Field. Helen Collier. Lillian
Abram. Florencs Horton. Mary Cation.
Al.ce Munster. Cerlotta Hemenway.
Marguerite Sanders.
Pied Piper-Hnrrv J.. Bates
Mayor-Nincent Baxter.
Richard Mansheids appearance at
the Providence Opera House is only one
week distant The celebrated artist will
be here for two nights only, Monday
and Tuesday. April IL and Is. The ad-
vance sale OF seats for Mansfield's per-
formance begins Friday morning. April
~ at the theatre. Mr.. Mansfield will,
OF course, present "Cyrano dc Berger
ac."t With all his crescent fame as
Chevrial Brummel. King Richard. Dick
Dudgeon, Prince Karl Capt Bluntschli.
Napoleon and Jekyll and Hyde I'm mind.
10 is nevertheless held that Mansfield q
Cyrano is the greatest creation he has
given or that our stage has known. THE
reading Of the famous play delights ev-
cry one and suggests the immense pos
sibilities for "A genius like this distin-
guished actor. The many attempts up-
on the part OF inferior players TO act
this exactinR role have only tended tO
confirm the belief that great as Is the
play and the role IL requires Mans