Evening star., 1901-06-08
ST. CECILIA'S ACADEMY.
Younger Pupils Take Part in Pleas
ing Exercise,


ing Exercise.
A large audience assembled in ST. Peter
Hall yesterday to witness the concert ex-
the younger members of the school took
the leading parts. The commencement
proper will take place in the Columbia
Theater next Tuesday. Yesterday Rev. j.
NJ O'Brien, assisted by Rev. P. Mcguire.
presided. The program began with piano
duo. "Auf Wiedersehn." played by Misses
D. Craycroft, E. Smith. A. Mason and M.
Janezeck "Washington's Reception" was
a bright spectacular play. In which the
original colonies, represented by Masters
H. Ermold, F. Smith, J. McAllister. j.
Scott, E. McCabe. j. Murray, E. Welsh, F.
Becker, c. Maloney. R. Luckett, r. Nc
Allister. ]. ]. Crawford and w. Duvall
each gracefully paid homage to their
''uncrowned king the immortal Washing
ton, who was admirably personated by Jo-
seph Owens. The pretty little page. Mas
ter Edwin Mullen. who presented them. at
tracted much attention. Subsequently
there appeared at the reception" eighteen
handsome little "Knights of Columbus -
ccstumed in the red. white and blue and
led by the great discoverer himself, in
the person Of Master Fairfax Oyster. Their
coming was greeted with hearty applause
by John Crawford and little Raymond Gill
bert. The entire play presented a success
sion of lovely pictures and closed with a
beautiful tableau.
This was followed by the following mu-
sical numbers, each of which was rendered
with taste and precision: Orange Grove"
by Misses ]. Lanahan, n. Maloney. A.
O'Neil, A. Goebel, Fl. Gardner and D. Cos
tello: "Valse" (Strabog), by Misses F..
Harding, NJ. Donohue. K. Hazen G. Lynch.
K Hoffman and ,. Ryon; when Grandma
Was Young" a chorus by the tiny little
girls accompanied by Miss A. Fitzhugh;
Mazurka webb. played by Misses b.
Williams, NJ. Eckert, NJ. Madigan and NJ
Murphey: "Azalia Waltz" by Misses NJ.
Rupert, F. Marshall, NJ. Harvey and M.
Murphey; 'Sylphide Polka" Nange), by
Master Fairfax Oyster on mandolin, ac-
companied by Master Raymond Luckett on
piano; "Galop Brilliant" (Gobbaerts), by
Misses Lanahan. Dougherty, Dove and Ma
loney; Spanish Dance" (Engleman), by
Misses A. OSullivan, X. Boswell. N. Ma
loney and G. william; Robin Adair." man.
dolins. Misses Hazen, Smith, M. Maloney.
Connor K. Boswell. G. Lynch, d. Cray
croft; violins, Miss c. Gloyd; piano, Miss
NJ E. Mccormick; 'Valse Coquette' deon-
cavallo), by Misses Townshend, HURT. Lee
and Robey After the last number, Snow
fakes" a charming chorus. by the vocal
Glass; Rev. J. M. o Brien made a beautiful
address of commendation and encourage
ment to the young participants in the en-
tertainment
The distribution in the little boys de-
partment was then made, as follows: Ger
tificates in catechiSm, mental arithmetic,
practical arithmetic, grammar, United States
history Bible history, reading, writing draw
ing, singing and spelling, were awarded to
Masters Joseph Owens, Fairfax Oyster,
John Crawford. Fulton Smith. Henry Err
mold. James McAllester. Francis Becker,
Joseph Scott. Eugene Welsh. John Murray,
Richard McAllester, Raymond Luckett,
RAYMOND Gilbert and Charles MalOney.
Premiums were awarded to Masters Geo.
Repetti. William Oyster, Jenkins Donohoe.
Bernard McCabe, Edward Mullen. Robert
Hanley. Francis Kane, Elma Smith. Alfred
Neff, Thomas Heide, Felix Nolte, Willie
Madel, Raymond Marks. John Eckert.
Robert Walker, John McCabe and Willie
Murray.
A gold medal was drawn for by Masters
Joseph Owens, Fulton Smith, Francis
Becker and Raymond Luckett.