The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-05-16
GIRLS DANCE As
MEX|CANS WITH
WILD ABANDON
Doll, Greek and Highland Dances
Also Among the Best in
the Affair.
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IN ANCING merrily to the accom-
- paniment of strains of an or
chestra, a bevy of young society
people of the Oranges last night in the
Woman's Clubhouse, East Orange, lent
their charms and skill in i big kirmess
to the work to benefit the Orange
Fresh Air work.
Children of the best and richest fami-
lies of the Oranges were among the
participants under instruction of we'll
trained experts, and they gave per-
formance that was as finished as many
professional affairs. The pretty young
devotees of Terpsichore delighted an
audience composed of society people of
Essex County, who attested apprecia-
tion of the excellent work of the young
people by frequent and generous ap-
plause.
The dances furnished many beautiful
pictures. The girls and boys, as well
as the demure misses and gallant
swains who gave their time for sweet
charity's sake, were attractively gowned
In rich and elegant costumes, and as
the Kaleidoscope pictures Of the young
people fitted about the stage before the
variegated lights of the calcium the
enthusiastic audience applauded with
earnestness and vigor the brilliant
scenes before them.
There was a wide variety in the
character of the dances chosen for the
program, and the audience was in
tensoly pleased with the excellent selec-
tions. The little folk appeared in real
istic dances that were so intensely
human and charming that audible COM
lnents on the beauty of the picture
were made There was the Scotch ma
tional dance. the Highland fling, with
the young folk in picturesque kilties
and sashes, one young woman dancing
solo fling. Miss Helen Farley, of
Shcrt Hills, gave the dance in excel
lent fashion.
The fantastic costumes of Mexican
bellies and beaux were shown to adj
vantage as the shapely young people
gave characteristic dance Of the
country. Eight young women, AL in
white and carrying cymbals, gave a
Grecian dance that was model of
gracefulness.
The young people had entered into
the affair with good spirit, and their
successful accomplishment gave evil
dence of the faithful work they had
done in practise.
BY clever arrangement of mirrors the
attractiveness of many of the dances
was materially enhanced. There were
several pretty feature solos among the
dances, and with rare skill and grace
the participants went through the
merry mazes of the dance, pictures of
rare beauty.
Mrs. Rose Preston Blasdell, of New
York, and Miss Caroline Montieth, of
South Orange, had managed the affair
and found plant material for the
charming dances in the persons of the
merry participants. The finished work
of the children revealed in positive
manner the careful and intelligent in
struction given them, and Mrs. Blasdell
and Miss Monteith were delighted with
the good work of their young charges.
Mrs. Blasdell, herself a graceful dancer,
who has entertained society people IN
many of the large social centres OF the
country, contributed a delightful solo
dance entitled La Mexicana," and her
spirited dancing was, feature OF the
interesting program.
The kirmess opened with doll
dance. given by eight of the younger
children. The stolid little figures of
the girls in their chairs as they awaited
the summons to activity furnished an
amusing picture. and ripples of ap-
plause greeted the mechanical futter-
ings of the little arms as the dolls
were called into action. The boys and