The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-09-30
MADE A HIT
AT THE START
Garden Party" Drew Welland
Took Well Last Night
TO BE REPEATED TONIGHT
There Is Wide Range Of Entertainment
With Music, Dancing and Marching
Forming the Principal
Features.

A large audience greeted the perform
ers In the first night OF the Garden
Party at the opera house last evening
and showed by their laughter and ap.
plause taat they appreciated the eiIorta
OF their friends who for the nonee had
turned stage artistic and entertainers.
There are upwards Of three hundred per-
SONS who have contributed their efforts
to the worthy cause OF the Barre Civic
Federation and their abilities have been
moulded into an attractive entertain
ment, under the skilled direction OF MIR.
and Mrs. l.. !. Rodenbaugh. Fully as
large an audience is expected at the
closing performance tonight. and II
would not be surprising ii there is a
packed house
As its namei indicates, the Garden
Party Is along the summer order. the
guests IN gala attire being grouped on
a supposed lawn at a well known vaca-
ton resort There are so many guests
that the law (the opera mouse stage)
is filled with people The curtain goes
up on a chorus in Come Along. Little
Girl, Come Along" followed by the
honeymoon March," which introduces
six black-faee walters, in the persons Of
Harlan Maxiield, Arthur Mcneil, viii
Halyosa, Coda Douglass. Loren Bell and
James Mcdonald, with Mr.. Rodenbauga
acting as interlocutor. They crack Jokes
at the expense OF local people and their
efforts were well received. Mrs. W. A.
Lebouryeau is chaperone Of this coterie
Of performers.
pretty character song and dance
Jack and jill" is cleyerly executed by
Miss Mae Carson, assisted by George
Kent, and was done so well last night
that the two had TO repeat The nature
OF the Garden Party" gives an oppor.
tunity for solo work. and Miss Emma
Pnillips and Mrs. Charles X. Scott, two
OF the best known singers Of the city.
were picked by the managers. Their
work in Heart OF My Heart" and
That's What the Rose said to Me,
the former by Miss Phillips and the
latter by Mrs Scott. called for an encore
from each. Mss Edith pirie, whose
dancing nas pleased Barre audiences
many times, gave a dainty skit, dressed
in japanese costume, and also responded
10 an encore
Seven lusty youngsters. Henry Kent,
Sheldon Brown. Nathan Benedict. Nor
ris Bugbee Uric Lebouryeau, Harry Dale
and Mark Cutler, under the chaperonage
of Mrs. George Bond, brought down the
hOuse with their farmer costume and
their singing OF My Gal Irene" and IN
dicrous foot work. Miss Lillian Cord 4 |
and VIII Ayers had vocal duett With |
a pretty dance, whicn was so well pre-.
sented that they, too, had to come back |
1t was little love scene entitled, Kiss |
kiss kiss"
Clad in Indian costume and doing the |
peculiar aborigines dance, William OH |
yer sang Big Chief Battle Axe assist
ed by four squaws in costume, Misses |
Mae Carson, Florence SIayton, Berniee |
Prindle and Margaret Milne, under the
Of Mrs. George Bond, they /
having transformed themselves Tor the I
scene. That was good, also,
In Sweet Loyeland," gave an oppor-
tunity for Barre people to near the clear, I
sweet voice OF Miss Alice Folsom OF |
Montpelier, who sang the solo part very
with Mr.. and Mrs. G, w.
Camp, viii q. Ayers and Miss Blancne
Bradford, W, T.. Halyosa and Miss Edith
Downey, +. O. Wetmore and Miss Flor
ence Hammond, Alex. Mcdonald and
Miss Isabelle Nelson. Bernard Lewis and
Miss Nellie Corskie giving a portrayal
OF sweet loveland and forming the chor
US, Mrs. N. y. Phelps and Mrs. +. y.
Cate were ehaperones for this set.
One Of the most pleasing parts Of the
program was the cnorus singing by $50
little girls, who marched on the stage,
dressed in white, and who made a pretty
picture. indeed Their very appearance
brought out applause and when they
sang they evoked tumult OF appro
baton The way those children went
at their part was pleasure to note;
every note was clear and they did not
fail to give the proper emphasis. The
children were not at all concerned over
their first appearance on the stage and
the little ones toddled ON and off the
stage as if it were an everyday occur
renee to appear in public. After they
lad marched Oft, they had TO march back
again, in order to please the audience
lgain. The soloists were Catherine Mar
lin and Myrle Cow.
Miss Anna Robertson had catchy solo
N $50 Long, Mary" which she did well,
being supported in the pretty farewell
scene by six young ladies and six young
nen, Misses Shirley Bradford, Mabel Glad
ling. Elizabeth Carson, Edith Downey, H
Blanche Houston and Barbara Clark and
William Downey, Arthur Averill, Ber
lard Lewis. Lester Carswell. Benjamin |
rassie and William Maiden. Like most
If the other performers, they had to |
'eappear. Miss Penelope Gall and Mrs. !,
n. II. Wales were ehaperones.
Eighteen little girls with teddy bears,
iRder the chaperonage of Mrs. J. +. {
NcSweeney and Mrs. J. +. Hoban, did
song and the "cuddiing act" with their
precious bean=-bears of all colors and |
lies. The girls were Ruth Morse, kath-
cen Brown, Anabel Tassie, Bella MaeAie, |
Rosa Levin, Shirley Mcneil. Hazel Mac
,ay. Frances Burke, Grace Barclay, Dor
thy Bartlett, lnez Carroll, Alice Moore, I
rene Grady. Laraine LorangsT, Theresa +
'arroll, Gertrude Mackie, Flossie Black /
md Angela Tierney.
The Haymakers Dance" under the
Of Mrs. A. a. Sargent. had a 1
OF Of intricate marching and stepping +
nd was skilifmlv carried ont by sixteen
frls dressed in appropriate costume and
arrying hay rakes The girls were Is
her Buchan, Horiense nignts Hazel I