The Washington times., 1903-10-04
.FLORODORA ORIGINALS
WILL HOLD REUNION
Daisy Green to Be Hostess
to ''Pretty Maidens."
TO BANQUET HERE TODAY
One of the Famous Sextet Will Have
Her Former Associates Help
Her Celebrate.

SIX happy. successful. and beautiful
young women will hold a reunion in
Washington this afternoon and re-
count. to the strains of Tell Me Pref
ty Maiden" experiences that have not
only found much space in the press
throughout the country. but which have
formed memorable epoehs in six event
full lives
The young women are the real and only
original members of the "Florodora-
sextet, and FIVE of them will be the
guest of the sixth, Daisy Green, now
member OF the "Winsome Winnie" COM
pany. playing in Washington this week
Miss Green will give a dinner in the
double honor of her FIVE former as
sociates, and of her own rise 10 the in
depreciation of real role in a play Her
guests viii be Margaret Walker, Marie
Wilson. Margery Relyea. Won Tessmith,
and Elaine Selover.
AS a member of the sextet, Miss
Green was. of course. among the prom
inent theatrical personages on Broad
way, but then there were others in the
same class, and her individuality, in
measure. was lost. Now she is doing
something on her own account, has
scored a personal success in conse-
Quence, and when looking about for
means to celebrate her rise in the pro-
fession she determined TO entertain the
girls Of the original sextet
Will Hum Familiar Air.
Miss Green's guests will come over
from Nax Vrrl Co.
of toasting her. and old times. as we'll.
II in the exuberance of Joy. the young
women hum their old vehicle of fame
along with the house orchestra. no one
will care. for TO them belongs the prior
right to that memorable musical com
position. at all times. and under all con
ditions
Three years ago when John c. Fisher
determined to give 'tFlorodora." he Sc
lected six attractive young women, re-
gardless of the fact that professional
experience played no part in their stage
careers. The day after the initial per-
formance OF the musical piece ar the
Casino Theater, New York, six young
women woke to find themselves ia
nous.
No one remembers the names of the
men in the sextet. for the girls had
things their own way. and experienced
the satisfaction of seeing the fame of a
company of principals fade away into
the dim distance and their own here
tofore unknown cognomens embIazoned
abroad in printers ink. From that
time six new stars rode, drove, and
walked on Broadway and six happy.
blithesome girls nightly bobbed their
big picture hats across the footlights
TO crowded houses.
All Pasts Are Forgotten.
The ghost Of recollection will have
no part IN the frolic- He will not be
permitted to remind one of the time
when, as a member of a local amateur
dramatic company her pretty face failed
70 account for her palpable lack of
anything that looked like talent. An
other viii only level, her Iorgnette at
picturesque little grocery stores that
used to breathe the home atmosphere
and still another may be excused from
recalling to mind her former residence
in Scranton, when such scenes greeted
her pretty eyes as that which Bret
Harte so aptly portrays in BOWS Flat
in the lines, And a gown that was
Sails tapped in the wind" No one will
be mean enough to mention a slight
disagreement between two OF the
'maidens" when long silky hair few
promiscuousIy around the Casino stage
No, it will be a joyful occasion. fol
since that time many changes have beer
effected in separate careers More thar
one of the girls has her stables an'
automobiles; more than one has temple,
fortune In the world of stocks and hai
come out 'ahead OF the gamej" NOR
than one has found happy home awal
from the footlights' glare. but few o
them yet cling TO the medium whicl
launched them into fame and Mis-
Green is one OF them.
Her success IN the sextet encouraged
her to greater things. and now that she 4
playing a real part and may be countel
a real member in the support of rea
star she wants her old friends to b
happy and the little dinner in Washing
ton this afternoon promises to be on
of the happiest. gayest celebration
since the morning twelve bright eye
read fame for their six happy owners