El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-22
THEY WON
APPLAUSE
High School Boys And Girls
In Colonial
Dress
i'm AN ENTERTAINMENT
Chopin Filled With Visitors
And The Program Well
Rendered-Other School
Programs

! The most successful and attractive
amateur performance given in Ell Paso
this year was that of last night, pre-
sented by the boys aud girls of the
tenth and eleventh grades OF the high
school. at Chopin hall.
| The whole thing was we'll conceived
and effectively carried out. and there
was through it all a colonial stmos-
phere delightfully."- suggestive Of the
period of pomp and powder. and the
charming girls and courtly men OF
the days Of Washington.
Nearly all the particip pants were In
costume, and each costu me was histosi
cally correct and an a-sistic creatton
in itself. The hall was crowded with
. congenfal audience of friends and
relatives, and everything was carried
lout smoothly and successfully.
Much of the credit for the success
of the entertainment is due not alone
to the boys and girls of the high
schools, but to the kindly efforts and
direction of Miss Florence Beall, Miss
Edwsrds, Mrs. w. Il. Brown, Miss
Lyons, and Miss Tru mbull.
Attractive parts of the program were
the tableaux, in which the colonial
costumes we're we'll set of by the red
fire illumination In the wings. sTbe
Birth Of the American Flag" showed
the American girls of long ago makiDs
the first flag fashioned after our na-
tional emblem Of tocay. The other
tableaux included tsbleaux portraits
of Martha and George Washingtos,
by Selby Townsend an1 Annie KEMP;
Miss Marie LaughborouRh looked
charming as Dolly Madison and colo
nial bride. Maize Cole and Willie
Schultz posed very pres;ily ss John
Alden and Priscilla, while Miss Bessie
Mitchell recited . bit from L ,ngfel-
lows poem descriptive of the soene.-
Miss Olivia Locksrt, who looked as
dainty as Dresden doll, recited u
thrilling little poem called "Pene-
Loops Christmas Dance" in which she
| tt Id of q brave American girls ad-
venture with Hessian officers, and the
way she brought success to the Amer
| ican arms.
There we're two songs, and both we'll
done. Miss Maize Cole Gang . solo
entitled "Washineton's Birthday
we'll, and Miss Faustins Look, who bas
q remarkably sympathetic voice, Gang
the we'll remembered "Ren B it,"
Mics Marie Laugh borough 3 violin
| solo was we'll received, and an encore
dems nded which she didn't give.
"Besos por Pesos," or rather "BeeOa
Pesos" was the selection given by
| the high school orchestra which won
| them much applause.
Several tots from the kindergarten
clsss, dressed as little colonial girl.
won admiration aud applause, aud st
the end came the minuet which va.
the best thing of the evening, de-
cidedly.
There were sixteen boys and girl.
and their time and trailing were PEI
feet. The dancers were Mics Ethe:
Catlin, Mr.. Edgar Ksyser: Olivia Lock-
art, Selby Townsend; Louise Wilcox,
Bruce Seeton; Anna Shelton, Frank
Hughes; Rossmond Windsor, John
Taylor; Halle Irwin, Kruger Chase;
Lena Falvey, Willie Mari; Alice Ma
plies and John Barlow.
After the regular program was IN
ished, the floor was cleared and one OF
the best dances Of the season followed.
SCHOOL EXERCISES.
Yesterday all Of the public schools held
exercises commemorative of Washing
toms birthday. At the Mesa school
the first and second grades went
through with the following program:
Song-"Very Tiny are the Rain
Drops" School.
Recitation--"W Washing ton, " Hilda So
renson.
Recttation-"In Seventeen Hundred
and ThirtvTwo, Edoa Thomas
Song-''Our Colors,' Sch oil.
RecitatiOu-'.When Washington wss