The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-24
A PROGRESSIVE MUSICALE.
The Idea Originated with a Clever
Girl, Who Had Tried and Tired of
All the Old Ways of Entertaining.

All the Old Ways of Entertaining.
The unique quality of this musicale at
fair appeared first of all in the invita-
tons. For the little note sheets. upon
which these We're written, showed, in
place of a monogram. a bar of music
cleverly sketched with pen and ink. 1t
required very little musical ability to dis
cover that each bar was the same; that
the notes were taken from a we'll known
song. and struck upon the piano, said
Wont you come and play with me-
There were six tables of a size to seat
four persons, and these were arranged
exactly IS FIR euchre, hearts, or any game
PLAY ed progressively.
At The first table the players were cen
fronted with set of delightfully."- ingen-
ious cards, each giving the name Of s me
well known musical composition, arrang-
ell in chaIad That is, PICTURES had been
cut from books, newspapers and maya
zinc and rasted upon the cards in such
a way as 10 suggest the name of song
or instrumental piece known TO every
ore.
For example, an advertisement Of
special brand of honey pasted upon slip
bearing also a head of lovely Marie An
toinette stood for the once popular song
Of Sweet Marie"
Daisy Bell'' was suggested by sketch
OF field daisies and a picture of the LIB
erty bell.
A likeness of the father of his country
and ano her of a United States mail box
gave The Washington Pest"
A little map of Kentucky and famous
,oaf cut from a well known bread adver-
tisement told that She Was Bred in Old
Kentucky"
The sketch of a raccoon copied from a
magazine article limited at AN Alabama
Coon o any quick witted contestant.
There We're twenty-five of these cards,
all Planned upon the same principle and
all enjoyable. pothing being offered that
was too difficult fer the average thinking
can.
Tablets and papsrs were found awaitin g
the p!ayets and the two young people
who, in fifteen minutes, OWNED correctly
the largest number Of names progressed
to the next table.
Here another form of contest, also, of
course, musical had been prepared.
Twenty-Five pictures and photographs rap
resenting wel,-known singers in opera
roles lay waiting to be classified. The
name of the actor or actress and that OF
the character enacted were required TO
constitute a perfect guess.
Cleverer still, If possible, was the con-
test at the fourth table. Here the guests
u
Upon each slip was written bar or two
of some popular composition. Every girl
and man, whether or not a practical per-
former, picked out" bits of popular or
classic music on piano, banjo or violin,
50 that no one among the number found
tfis feature beyond their abilities
The fifth table tested all wits by cards,
on which the names of celebrated oompos-
ers were arranged in aneg gram or pi That
is the letters of each name were so jum-
bed as TO require a deal OF agility in
STRENGTHENING them out. Thus Mozart be-
came Ratomz. Schubert appeared as
Terhbusc. Wagner masquerades as Ne
graw, and Chopin as Inpoch.
The excitement of untangling these bad
snarls kept the fun in swim until the
bell rang-a signal for progression TO the
sixth and last table.
AT the sixth table 1t was the physiog-
Monies of the great composers, which put
divination powers to the test. Often as one
sees the likenesses of the masters, and
well up one may be- 1t requires full meas
ures of wideawakeness to be able to dis
tinguish among a number of faces thrown
indiscriminately together.
The pictures were numbered to facilitate
the arranging of names guessed.
All prizes awarded were chosen appro-
pirate to the musical motif of the party.
Copies of the favorite songs of the day or
of classic pieces, autobiographies of IA
nous musicians or singers and photo
graphs of the masters in music were
given.
Little bonbonniers taking the shape OF
musical instruments-violins, banjoes,
harps and even miniature pianos, were OIL
fered as consolation prizes to those who
failed,