The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-30
a Fine Entertainment.

Editors lntclligcncr: Piedmont has
had stroke Of luck by way of dra-
matte talent, beginning with the child
and ending with the adult Last Sat-
urday evening at Union Hall the citi
zens of the Cars empre--that is, the
Coloners-wcre treated to a surprise
as agreeable as it was novel in Pied
mont.
A musicale was rendered by Miss
Lilly 3. Kice. The half Of the mill
town talent was not represented, but
sufficient appeared before the lights
to make us wish more than the other
half would again soon appear and give
us an excuse to strut little before
our talented vicinitics in Anderson
County, who are fond occasionally of
blowing off on the good points Of their
enviable citizens.
Miss Rice needs no recommendation
or representation but herself. Like
Topscy, she growcd, but it was in lar
ger fields, where the classics flourish,
such as Greenvillc, Florida, Atlanta
and our own Anderson city; the ripper
foliage Of her musical bloom she ex-
pandcd under the reign Of our former
Colonel in Piedmont, but now under
the richer cxubcrancc Of the present,
whore the people learn to love and
know Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart
as they learn to love and know Col.
Orr, Mr.. Walker, Mr.. Haync, Mr..
Cobb and others Of our tutclarics.
Miss Rice is ut home, and We trust i'm
movable.
The talcn. supplied by. Piedmont
might begin with the little children
whose marvellous aptitude for music
was we'll represented by the perform
ance Of the little ones that evening.
Meandering through the Olympian
shades Of genius, rcctations followed,
choruses, ETC., till the upper ten of
Piedmont slamm ID the weight of their
effective originality upon our heads in
the form of drama. We survived
the magical spell, but Miss Sara Don
aid, Miss Ida Simpson. Miss Ollie Mar
tin and Miss Horton had better bid us
be aware next time 30 that we come
with loosened girths for the expansions
Of laughter.
Dr.. Crymes and Redmond Hender-
son undertook the serious parts Of the
drama. It required but little acting
on the part of DR.. Crymes, pseudo
Count, to warn the young ladies
against polished strangers and false
titles, but the doctor did the natural
part to finish; nor was Mr.. Hender-
son, as the ''papa" of Miss Sara Don
aid, less venerable and dignifed. Miss
Mary Horton, Bolton young lady,
and one Of our best teachers, was as
didactic in the part of New York
friend and admirer of Miss Donald as
she is known to be in the school room.
Miss Ollie Martip sister Of Prof. Mar
tin, and relativ Of Lawyer Martin,
of Anderson, was convulsing effect
during the evening, her impersonation
of a tacky country girl, and her take
down Of her city cousin, and discovery
of the false Count, all acted in her
own particular style, was something
long to be remembered and soon again
desired. Miss Ida Simpson, the de-
mure, sweet sister of the country
girl" was picture Of modest SIM
plicity be6tting the beauty of the
rural home. Miss Donald, as the city
girl and object Of the Counts ad-
miration, was also spared the part of
unnatural acting, the character of la
belle becoming her so naturally. Miss
Pope, another pretty teacher. with
Miss Sara Donald, DR.. GRIMES,
Messrs. Sloan Hayne and Childers
performed the choruses which bought
before the audience the merits of the
vocalists' fine voices.
Mrs. VIM. F. Lee, in recitation,
caused us to mediate on the willful
foolishness of borrowing the other
fellows overcoat and wearing it, with
out first removing from its pockets
aught of suspicion that might fall into
the hands of our young wife.
Little Barbara Richardson, in reci-
tation, also Jay Singleton and Lila
Hudson in song were very good
Nothing was lacking in the enter