Smyrna times., 1904-04-06
LADIES BRILLIANT LEAP YEAR DANCE.
Given With Decided Success at the Smyrna
Opera House Easter Monday Evening and
Was an Event of Much Social Interest.


Was an Event of Much Social Interest.
The social event of Easter Week and
one around which much interest has
centered for several weeks, was the bril-
liant Leap Year Dance given at the
Smyrna Opera House Monday evening.
As a social event 1t attracted much in
tersst and devotees of Terpshicore were
present from all parts of the state. 1t
was the first Leap Year dance given in
Smyrna in many years and the ladies
quite Outdid themselves IN their cor
dial hospitality and most excellent en-
tertainment. The Opera House was
generously decorated with lockwood
and evergreens, the front of the stage
being banked to a considerable height
and behind which Watkins augmented
orchestra of seven pieces including
harp and drums, dlscoursed their
sweetest music. So bright and catchy
were the selection that the orchestra
was forced to respond to encore after
encore, and in some instance Joe
Marinelli, the harpist, played a
familiar waltz song as a solo. There
were many spectators present in the
galleries who witnessed the may
whirl of dancers until late hour.
These were admitted by card only.
From a spectacular point of view the
dance eclipsed any social event given
in Smyrna in recent years. There
was dazzle and radiance of beautiful
gowns and pretty girls and in the whirl
of the glide waltz, the scene presented
a picture that was beautiful to look
upon. The ladies did all the honors
usually incumbent upon men. Some
carried the joke so far as to hire teams
to escort their men to the Opera House
and give them flowers. There were
twenty-four dances and the ladies filed
the pretty souvenir programs to
dance, intermisslon took place during
which coffee and sandwiches were
served under the catership of Mrs. H.
d. Boyer. A lemonade bowl occupied
one corner of the room.
List Of the Patrons and ChaperOns.
The committee in charge who deserve
all success for the entertainment, was
Miss Ebs Cloak Wilds, Miss Glars
West HAZEL, and Miss Muriel Janney.
The dance was graced with patrons
: and chaperons as follows: Patrons
Mr.. John G. Stockly, Mr.. A. E. Jar
dine, Mr.. Harvey P Hall, Mr.. William
B. Megear, Mr.. ]. Harvey Speakman
Mr.. J. E. Hoffecker, Mr.. Benton N.
Weldon, Mr.. William George Hill
: Mr.. James D. Wilds, Mr.. Daniel G
Bailey. Chaperons-Mrs. John G
StOckly, Mrs. j. Edwin Hoffecker
Mrs. William H. Janney, Mrs. A. E
r Jardine, Mrs. Daniel G. Bailey, Mrs
Harvey P. Hall, Mrs. Edward Farrell
Mrs. William George Hill, Mrs. Jane
D. Wilds, Mrs. William B. Megear
: Mrs. J. Harvey Speakman, and Mrs
!. James R. McCausland.
Visitors Present From Distance.
Among those present who partici
pated in the dance were the following
Philadelphia, Misses Elsie Lank, Reb
Thomas, Mabel Mitchell, Helen Mac
key. DIR. Reuben Denney, Jackson G
Reynolds, Gardner Beckett, Georg
Turner,
Blacks, Md, Miss Eva Fcxwell.
! Wilmington, Misses May Cam
, Daisy Robelin, Orville Gooden, Home
X. Lewis, Charles Williams, Herman
Robinson, Roland Carr.
|, Atlantic City, Byron Slaughter.
Baltimore, Misses Page Dame, Vir
ginia Snyder, Ernest Walton, Nelson
i West, Edward Johnson.
= Havre de Grace. Rea Vennedum.
: Middletown, Misses BERTHE Cochran
Mary Williams, Lousie Cochran, Dor
Price, Helen Cochran, DIR. Lewis, W
n H. Brady. Sydney Poverty, Richar
Ford, Joseph Comegys, Julian Ford
. Harry Lockwood, Eugene Shallcrosi
Gumboro N. q. Charles W. Newman
Centreville, Md Misses Bessie Net
witt and Susie Watson.
Millington, Miss Pearl Ahern.
ia Clayton, Mrs. Frank L. Reynolds
a Charles LeCompt, Grover Talbot.
n st. Georges, Randolph Pratt.
Il Dover, Misses Lena Baker, Mar
!. Fisher, Howard West, Carl Fleming
Baker Taylor.
u Those Who Participated From Smyrna.
10 Misses Clara West Hazel, Eba Cloa
Wilds, Muriel Janney, MAZE Fore
:, Phida Janney, May York, Irma Levi
= Helen Lewis, Edith Collins, Mar
y HAZEL, Lillian Speakman, Clara Sprl
ance Reulah HaZall Rlancha Hazel