The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-22
CHILDREN
IN OCEAN GROVE
CONCERT TONIGHT
Juvenile Singers Will Be Ar
ranged in Picturesque and
Fanciful Costumes.
YEARS BIGGEST EVENT
AT POPULAR RESORT
Little People Will Look Like
Fairies as They Trip Into
Hall Waving Wands.

Especial TO M ENfhihb 10
OCEAN GROVE, Aug. 22.-The chill
dren's festival concert, he greatest
event in the history of this resort each
year. will be given tonight,
tions have been going on for some
time and the affair is looked
to with expectancy by the parents OF
more than 1000 children who will make
up the chorus. These children hail
from all parts of the country and the
"Grove'' is now crowded with many
who come here specially for this event.
The children In fancy dress costume
will he seen this evening by 1000 per-
sons as they march into the Ocean
Grove Auditorium after the audience
has been seated. They VIII enter at
twenty doors leading down alsies tnat
converge toward the centre. The little
people will come in, keeping tim to
music. swaying gracefully from side TO
side and holding In their hands hoops,
wands and figured devices bound with
flowers. The marching will be one or
the prettiest sights of the evening.
Decorations will extend throughout
the vast Auditorium, converting 1t MO
a veritable FARMLAND. All the electric
lights, of which there are thousands
are to be covered with Japanese Ian
terms and under this soft glow will be
sraned two miles of bunting, while at
Intervals around the vast balcony VIII
he draped American flags.
Rocky Mountain Camp.
Arrangements have been made for a
scenic effect on the yast stage, n
that part of it In front of the seats
where the host of little children sit
will be made up as a Rocky
camp. Youngsters In the garb of
mountaineers will appear from tents
and huts and come marching in from
the woods with game.
The program includes a number OF
choruses. all led by Musical Director
Tall Esen Morgan, anon which are
THE Sugar Plum Tree" by Harding;
1.-THE Old Brigade" Bari; Repent
ance," Gounod; "Then You'll Remember
Me-" by Balfe, and 1.-The Japanese Love-
song" by Johns. Another number sure
to bring great applause 1s the ever
popular "Daddie," that the childrens
chorus has given every year since 1ts
organization. A new feature OF the en-
t~ertainment will be a drill by mechen-
ical dolls. led by Donald Chalmers. The
"dolIs'' will in reality be Miss Edna
Halton. Miss Edith Morgan, Miss
Eleanor Page. Miss Helen Kelmbach,
Miss Ethel Males and Miss Grace
Osborn There will be a gypsy chorus
composed of thirty pretty girls. who
will go through a drill and play mando-
Inns and guitars; a drill by the little
Rough Riders in uniform. and Mr.. Nor
ean.s usual Surprise feature. Ever
since tie children's concerts were hrst
given some feature has been given at
the end of the program unannounced to
the audience.
Camp Meeting to Open.
But one more Sunday remains before
the beginning of camp meeting, which
opens Friday, August %. Secular en-
tertainments Will be suspended for ter
DAYS while the M~ethodists devote
themselves to prayer and son singing.
Before that time. however, a number
of concerts are scheduled to come off,
In connection with the Asbury Park
baby parade carnival the children's
choir of 1000 Will give a concert differ
ent from that of tonight next Tuesday
evening. and the festival choru is
counted upon for the "Stabat Mater
or 1.-THE Holy City," later that week.
Among h Newark members of the
children's chorus are Dorothy Volk,
Florence Jackson, Ruth Graham, Lucille
Graham, Walter Wurth. Richard
wurth, Beulah Vanderhoof. Mary Du-
guild. Royal Beardsley, Freeman Price,
Helen Borden, Elsie Frederickson. Ma
rion Brill, Edith Brill, Katherine Dean,
WinIfred Mead, Eleanor Cobb, Dorothy
Robotham, Eleanor Mead, Eleanor Van
Ostrand, Abigail Holden, Helen Hahn
Mary Cobb, Harry Sheik. Lulu Lewis,
Florence E. p. Boyer, Maud Lewis,
Dobory Bird, Mildred Taylor, Charlotte
Thomas, Charles Bird, Wilbur Rikeri
Morris Widger. Ella Bradner. Jack
Harrison, Martha Harrison, Dorothy
Harrison, Lille L.. Emative, Ludlow
Thurston. Herbert Gardner, Dorothy
Day, Helen Cleaver, Beulah Frawley'
Alice Evans, Warren Crawley, Alice