Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-04
RECALLS
OLD DAYS
EBELL CLUB GIVES HISTORICAL
ENTERTAINMENT
STREET CRIES OF FORMER TIMES
SOUND THROUGH ROOMS
Nearly a Hundred Women and Chill
dren Take Part In Program
Which Shows Scenes of
Past Centuries

Who'll buy, who'll buy, who'll buy?"
Place, Los Angeles, the assembly
room of the Ebell club; date February
in the year of our Lord 1908, and the
audience a typical twentieth century
gathering of club women, but the an
cient street cry sounding through the
hushed silence carried everyone, in inn
agination, back to the days of England
under Elizabeth and to the narrow,
crooked Lun'on streets that knew the
tread of Rawley, Sidney. Spencer and
Gentle viii Shakespeare"
The occasion was the open program
given by the art and travel section of
the Ebell under the title Street Scenes
and Historic Cries of the Nations" and
furnished an afternoon of keen enjoy
ment.
The countries represented ranged
from Egypt to America in the days of
the colonies, and nearly one hundred
women and children contributed TO the
brilliant panorama furnished by the
grand march which was the first Of
fering Of the afternoon. Here were
monks and dancing girls, stately Span
ish ladies and colonial DANES, women
from Holland whose quaint costumes
were completed by the click of knitting
needles and the clump OF sabots. There
countries in this bazaar of nations,
each and all picturesque and convinc-
ing, their success provoking many
merry laugh and receiving the we'll
earned tribute of applause.
All the details of the costumes and
the music of the street vendors were
Vouched for as being historically COR
rect and the hearers were assured they
listened to the orange cry of poor
Nell Gwyn as she sung it at the door
of the theater when a waif of the
streets, and also to the same 'cheery
song with which she won the heart
of the king after she had become a
great actress and the toast of the town.
The programs were as follows: Re-
marks, Mrs. Q. B. Stanton, curator:
grand march, Miss Alice Milton, leader,
Mrs. Harmon d. Ryus, pianist; Egypt.
in charge of Mrs. B. N. Pratt, the call
to Allah, the water and beggar criers:
Greece, in charge of Mrs. G. e. Curtis,
the maiden's greeting to Athena; Italy,
in charge of Mrs. c. A. Stavnow, "The
Italian Comedy as given in the streets.
fourteenth century, Columbine. Harle-
quin, Patolone, Pietro; Spain. in charge
of Miss Constance Britt sunshine and
shadow of Spanish street life; school
girls, in charge of Mrs. w. c. Vallikett,
from a picture by Madeline Lemaire;
France, in charge of Madame Donate
and Miss Edith Mitchell, criers from
the provinces in the streets of Paris;
Germany, in charge of Mrs. e. w. Britt,
peasant women passing before the
statue of Germania at Niederwald on
the Rhine; Holland, in charge of Mrs
Henry Y. Osborne, jr.. the calls of tho
peasant girls; England, in charge of
Mrs. James b. Stearns, Elizabethan and
Shakespearean cries; Japan, in charge
of Mrs. w. III. Frost, selecting Japanese
| In oh Of nTref
Brock and Mrs. Allison Barlow. bridal
procession; Mexico, in charge of Mrs.
G. H. Mosher, the grand danes and
the criers; America, in charge of Mrs.
r. w. Dromgold. our colonial danes
and the criers.