Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-02-20
THE SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT

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THE SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT.
The graded school entertainment in
the opera house last Friday night, was
a complete success. Almost every fam
lily in town was represented, and the
opera house was crowded to the limit
Of standing room. The best Of good
humor prevailed throughout the even
ing, and the very creditable efforts Of
the children were greeted with unstint-
ed enthusiasm.
AS has already been explained, the
programme was in three parts-one
rendered by the smaller children, an
other by those Of medium size, and the
third by the young misses and masters
who make up the higher grades. tom
Thumbs Wedding" came first. This
was followed by Mother Goose drills"
and last came the "Spins:er's Conven-
tion."
The cast Of characters in "Tom
Thumbs Wedding" was: Minister
Clarke Adickes; bride and groom-Rita
Beard and Bennie Barron; maid Of
honor and groomsman-Mozelle Inman
and Marshall Boyce; flower girls
Florrie Beard, Mable Ashe, Margaret
Williford and Hazel Hope; bridesmaids
Anna Cherry Schorb, Annie Ashe,
Carrie Cartwright, Mary Starr, Eliza
Neville and Alec Starr; guests, Mamie
Rose. Miller Drakeford, Ola Allison.
James Grist, Mamie Hope, Wade Will
liford, jamie Wray, Jefferys Parish, Lo-
la Murray and Andral Rose; mother
and father, Mary Cartwright and Duke
Hicks; ushers-Sam Latimer, Joseph
Grier, Ollie Hicks, J. r. Logan, Dare
White and Tom Cartwright.
With the stage properly set with dec
orations, etc., and the bridal party COL
lected in a room in the front of the
buiIulng, tiny ushers, to the music of
the wedding march, piloted the little
people up the long aisles 10 their proper
places. The costumes had all been
prepared with unusual care and taste,
the little men wearing dress suits OF
black, spike tail coats, standing collars
and stiff white shirts and cuffs, etc.
The little ladies were dressed as their
elders would have been on similar oc-
casion, with all the taste and stlye that
their elders were able to put into their
pretty costumes. The appearance of
ushers, bridesmaids. guests, the minis
ter, flower girls, bride and groom, etc.,
as they marched up the aisle, created
lots of meriment and intense enjoyment
in the audience. All having arrived
on the stage, the minister went through
most amusing burlesque Of the mar
riage ceremony without forgetting a
word Of his very difficult part, and the
bride and groom sang out their replies
to the serio-comic questions in tones
thoroughly appropriate to the spirit of
the occasion. The ceremony over, the
procession marched off the stage down
the opposite aisle from the one by
which they had gone, and it Is a fact
that there was seldom more craning of
necks, even in church to see real
bride and groom Some Of the little
chaps were, of course, funnier than
others in grown peoples clothes, and
every point Of comparison seemed to
furnish the delighted audience with ad-
ditional provocation for amusement.
Part was rendered by: Mother
Goose" Miss Marie Moore; Matte May
Neville, Annie Lee Thomas, Winnie
Crawford, Wilmore Logan, Julia Smith,
Mary Hope, Bessie Pegram, Clarke
Adickes, Forest Smith, Fredrica Lind
say, John Murray, David Logan. w. G.
White, Quay Williford, Wheeler Willis,
Olive Walker, William Boyce, Robert
Herndon, Ottman Rose. Mother Goose
appeared as she does in the books. and
introduced herself with a soliloquy
about her absent children. Then she
lay down to sleep and the familiar
characters, Red Riding Hood" "Bo-
Peep" Simple Simon," and the others
came in by twos, introducing them
selves upon their arrival. Allhaving at
rived pretty Mother Goose songs were
rendered, and then followed elaborate
drills that carried the audience back to
the days Of childhood.
The "Spinsters' Convention" came
next with the following characters:
Josephine Jane Green, president Of
the Young Ladies' Single Blessedness
Debating society-Nellie Schorb; Pris-
ella Abigail Hodge, secretary-Anna
McCaw; Calamity Jane Higgins, treas
urer-Mary Ashe; Rebecca Rachel
Sharp-Bessie Williams; Tiny Short
Strauss Walker; Mary Ann Fraddler-
Beulah Grimes; Jerusha Matilda Sprig-
gins-Mary Dobson; Patience Desire
Simril; Sophia Stuckup-|
Mary Williams; JULIET Long-Marion
Logan; Betsy Bobbett-Nannie Grist;
Charity Longface- Maggie Robson;
Cleopatra Belle Brown-Mary Walker;
Polly Jane Pratt-Anna Spann; Violet