Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-04-30
VAUDEVILLE GIVEN BY So
Getty GIRLS.

There is a great social hubbub 10
Boston, and the Back Bay is in state
of the widest commotion. A few days
since a number of we'll known young
women of society, members OF the Vim
cent Club, gave rather lively vaude.
vile performance for charity, TO which
only their women friends were ad-
mitted.
Secure, or imagining themselves Sc
cure, in the fact that that their fathers
and brothers were riRidly excluded,
that only their sisters and and their
cousins and their aunts" were present,
that the affair was jolly sort Of
Adamless Eden, the girls went in for O
good time and a performance
of serpentine dancing, ballets-and
the dear girls enemies do say
high kickiog--thst made even the
specialized mstrons Of Beacon street
feel forty or fifty years younger.
It was understood that, while some
mild, innocuous milk-and-water &C
count OF the affair might find its way
into print-sedstely and perfunctorily
told in the society columns" of the
press, as though it were Dorcas So
ciety meetiDg-it should not be written
10 with that "ginger" in the writing
that was observable in the performance.
| And, particularly, 40 horrid male news
paper artists were TO be present to
sketch it. A young woman who was
| tuere, however, made some very pretty
drawings OF it all.
Plans to suppress pictures were laid
and were carried out-except in the
case of one Boston paper. Someone
forgot to tell the night editor OF that
paper TO leave out the picture, and Bea-
con street was socially paralyzed next
day by seeing sketch OF the perform
ances INDUCED in by these social lu
miuaries. To say that there has been a
nubbub 10 Bcston's upper-tendom in
consequence doesn't begin to describe it,
and the picture has been passed from
5 o'clock tea table to tea table, amid
roars OF laughter at the expense OF the
Vincent Club young women.
THE illustration OF the young ladies
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| limit" said one of the fashionable set OF
Boston. II have no doubt that the cut
WAS printed through some misuuder
standing; but there it was and every
body saw it. Every body who reads the
programme knew that Miss Mary Curtis
gave the serpetine dance, that she was
costumed 10 flowing white draperies;
but to think Of her as that picture
would make her appear why, l hardly
know how to express myself. People
forget that she danced with all accom-
panying light effects, which make it an
entirely different matter.
"rhen again, that picture of ballet
dancer. 1t is true that Miss Ethel Glib
son did give a ballet dance; that she
did wear handsome costume OF red,
and that she danced 80 we'll that she
bad to repeat it several times.
At least, 1 am told so-but you
must remember that there were
none except ladies, friends OF toe
performers, in the audience-but |
doubt whether she looked anything
like that picture. 1 suppose that other
horrid-loOking combination ia supposed
| to represent the Misses Cochrane, Burn
nam and Winthrop, in the scarf dance;
but it must certainly be exaggerated
Miss Fay and Miss Forbes, as Hau:
sci and GretsI, are not so bad, and
don't think much objection would haye
been raised to the illustration OF the
Misses Tudor, in the Hungarian dance
but the otbers-well, as said before
they are the limit"
HE says they are the limit, does he,'
said the young women artist who made
the pictures, when the statement was
repeated; "all I've got to say is that
be should have seen the performance"