Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-12-30
St. MARY'S PUPILS IN OPERA
The Spirit of Christmas Por-
trayed In Clever En-
tertainment.

No entertainment given at st.
Mary's Hall has been more pleasing
in its character or more carefully
executed in the minutest detail than
the Christmas entertainment given
last night by the pupils of St Mary s
Parochial School.
1t was beautiful from start to finish
and throughout the well executed
program there was a holiday air aud
an ever present reminder of Christ
mas, the greatest of all Church fes-
tivals. The delightful musical Sc
lections by a full orchestra from the
Naval Academy band, under the lead
ershlp of Prof. Charles A. thinner
man. was alone worth much more
than the price of admission. Prof
Zimmerman opened the program with
Metropolitan March and inter-
spersed the numbers on the program
with the following beautiful and
catchy musical selections Kilkenny"
s'Lickity Split, ""CavaIier' Anona'
"a composition by the late President
McKinley's niece. The orchestra
closed the program with the beautiful
Regatta March. +"
The program, proper, opened with a
beautiful Merry Christmas We'll
GOMEZ by fourteen little children,
each reciting something appropriate
to the letter spelling out the name of
the number on the program as above.
The children taking part in this
were Margaret Woolley, Carroll Rus
sell, Katie Huhn, Charles Denver,
Claire Denver, Joseph Frank, Fidelis
Naughton, Louis Thomas, Frances
Kramer, Robert Hogan, Lena Lutz,
Bernard Brady, Marie Schneider and
Robert Jones
This was followed by an operetta
entitled Christmastide' consisting OF
three acts in which Miss Helen Far
rell represented winter, Miss Isabelle
McNasby impersonated Christmas and
a large number of small children took
part. Miss Farrell in her costume OF
ermine made a typical winter, she
spoke distinctly and carried out the
part commercially. Miss McNasby
sang with beautiful effect. She has q
clear, sweet voice and her high notes
are particularly beautiful. Her rendi-
tion of the three stanzas of a Christ
mas carol called forth warm applause.
The "Greeting to Winter" by the
little fairies, icicles and snow flakes
was very effective. In this Leila
Sanders, Viola Everson and Kath-
crime Wiegard did especially well.
The boys in Winter Sport acted
with ease and were very natural.
Their snow man and their battle
with snow balls were true to life.
In act second, 1.-The Spirits OF
Christmastide. - The young ladies
and little girls of the school repre-
sented Angels, Bells, Stars, Lights,
&c. The costumes were appropriate
and in this act number of beautiful
choruses and graceful drills were in
troduced. Act three, "Christmas Eve
In The Home Circle" was especially
pleasing. Six young girls dressed in
white and green, impersonated mis-
tletoe' and six in red and green repre-
sented Holly" The evolutions by
the twelve young ladies were very
graceful and were executed with pre-
cision. This was followed by Wait
ing For Santa Claus in which
| twenty five children took part. They
formed home circle, determined to
watch for Santa Claus, but whose flesh
was weak while the spirit was will
ling, and who were overcome by sleep
mess and dropped off into the Land OF
Nod. While the children were asleep
sly Santa Claus came in and filled
their stockings with the aid of his
Brownies, the most grotesque young
ones, costumed TO represent a citizen
of every country of Santa's domain.
The operetta ends with a jolly inter
view between Santa and the children,
in which little Viola Everson is
drawn in ON a sled. Nobody suspects
that the tub on the sled which repre-
sents Santas "pie' contains a little
girl until she steps forth and says heI
dainty little "piece.
During intervals of the operetta
real snow falls from 'above" and
scatters its gilstening flakes. The
scenery is very we'll arranged in all
details and is most effective. A pretty
feature was a recitation by little
| Miss Catherine Musterman, tiny tot
who tells about having placed on the
mantle for Santa Claus a piece OF
mama's fruit cake, thinking he would
| enjoy it after his long ride over the
snow in his sleigh. She crept in tc
see if he has eaten it and to her sur.
prise she found little mouse nibbline
| the cake intended for Santa. The
child's simplicity in reciting the little
selection was a most happy feature OF
q very creditable entertainment,
which will be repeated tonight.