Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-22
PRINCESS NAYS LAWN TETE.
Annual Carnival by Pupils Of Miss
Cora B. Shreve.

With every seat In the house taken and
standing room on each floor at a premium.
the annual May carnival of the pupils
OF Miss Cora B. Shreye. teacher of dane
Ing. was opened at the New National
Theater last evening. The program will be
given again this evening. repeated tomor-
row evening. the award OF medals and
prizee for the year being made at the latter
time. The carnival included tire operetta.
Tho Princess Mays Lawn Fete. or the
Game OF Love- written by Miss Shreve
and for which Harry Wheaton Howard
composed the music, 1t being the medium
for display of electrical effects, the sing
Ing OF catchy songs and graceful dancing.
The carnival was staged in a pretentious
manner, the opening scene. showing num-
OF young misses swinging in electrically
Illuminated swings while singing song of
vacation time, being particularly effective.
The opening scene. however, was but the
presage of other equally attractive features.
The cast of character in the operetta In
Guided the Princess May Miss Helen Ber-
ems; Prince Fortunio. Miss Audry Johnson:
Fantasma, Queen OF Magic Power, Miss
Madolfn Smithson; Queen of Night, Miss
Gertrude Musser; Queen of Dancing. Miss
Majorie Mock; Prince Hopeful, Miss Ina
Clair Pagan. and Price Bassinio. Miss
Augusta Hill. The members of the pony
ballet were: Misses Esther Lohrer, Hen
rietta Berens, Ethel Shaeffer, Margaret Ell
Raymond. Rena Ehrlich. Mamie Schuyler,
Gladys Kahn, Hazel Bonheim and Alma
Nelson. The Cupids were Misses Mildred
Jones, Helen Quinn, Margaret Buckley.
Doretha Pitt Henrietta Lemenager. Nor
sci Lemenager Marie Shaw, Mildred Ber-
ems, Margaret Berens and Lucille Wallen-
stein, Masters Warren Stoll and Joseph
Fitzgerald. and the pages, Masters William
Connors. Emory Bonini, Ralph Soffel. Cliff
ton Whyte, Harold Gross. Fred Berens,
Aloysius Bowers Claude Stanton, John
Farquhar and Eugene Potter.
The chorus consisted of Misses Jewell
trude Boteler. Louise Bridges Elsie Car
penter Fannie Constantine, Edith Carl,
Mildred Ellis, Loretta Fitzgerald, Pauline
Floyd, Mildred Farrell. Bertha Cent?, Ethel
King, Marie Kattleman. Irene Langley,
Edna Lawson, Estelia Murray. Mildred
Norwood. Elizabeth Oliver, Edna open
heimer, Nietah Perkins. Louise Potter,
Poole, Harriet Pruitt, Lottie Phillips. Anita
Power May Quinn, Mildred Raymond Thef-
ma Scrivener, Gertrude Shaefer, Myra Sum
mers. Fay Smithers, Eleanor Sellinger. Jen-
ME Stephens, Edna Wilcox, Madge Wiley
and Mildred Wallenstein, Marie Maxwell,
Inez Gilbert, Florence Foster, Helen Dono-
van, Eloise Burns. Alma Happ, Constance
Walton, Masters Edward French, Gilbert
st. Clair, Frank Williams.
Some of the special features In the way
of dancing during the action of the oper-
eta were the dance La Aerial by Miss
Majorie Mock; highland fling, Miss Mar
garet Buckley; dance fantastfque Miss
Jewell Ansley; pas suel, Miss Fay Smithers;
dance of the humming bird, Miss Adrienne
Shreve; dance artisque, Miss Mammie
Schuyler; bird dance, Miss Esther Lohrer;
toe dance Miss Alma Nelson; dance of the
freely, Miss Helen Berens, and dance OF
the humble bee, Miss Frances Fitzgerald.
The solos given by Master John Faraquhar,
Miss Augusta Hill, Miss Henrietta Berens,
III; G.
ser Miss Harriet Pruitt, Miss Margaret
Poole, Miss Audry Johnson and Clifton
Whyte were all pleasing
The second part included program OF
fancy dances vocal solos and duets and
choruses as we'll as collection of national
dances.