Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-03
GAY DANCERS
MAKE MERRY
AT CLUB BALL
NEW SOCIAL SOCIETY GIVES
FIRST entertainment
CHILDREN OF MEXICO FORM
ORGANIZATION
Sons and Daughters Of Southern Re.
public Meet in Native Co.'S
tunes and Have Enjoy
able Time

ing of the new Hermosillo club. in
Eraternal Brotherhood hall Saturday
night
This new social organization is COM
posed of young people representing
leading families of the southern repub-
Tic, young men and young women sent
to California to learn English and take
advantage of the educational facilities
of the United States.
Until recent years the children of
wealthy Mexican families have been
sent to London and Paris to complete
their educations, but with the improve
ment i'm the educational Institutions of
Southern California parents have found
1t preferable to patronize the American
institutions nearer at hand, and the
number of students coming here from
our sister republic has been growing
steadily.
So extensive. in fact, has this element
become in Los Angeles and its suburbs
that the need of some social organiza-
ton, where they might meet OCCASION
ally to celebrate after their own GUS
toms and chatter in their native Jam
guage, has been greatly felt. AS re-
suit of several preliminary meetings
the Hermosillo club was finally or
ganized, and it was decided to inaugu-
rate the new club with a masquerade.
Prepare fo- Event
For weeks young men and women
have kept costumers busy preparing for
the event and no pains or expense were
spared to make the first meeting a sue
cess.
At p. m. the masked and cIoaked
figures began to arrive, each assuming
an unnatural voice in order to keep
secret his or her identity. BY $3.50
nearly fifty couples were on the floor,
prepared to take part in the opening
grand march.
And what a grand display 1t was!
Gallant knights bowling low before fair
colonial DANES, Mexican charros with
out end coquetting with pretty Spanish
senoritas in their long lace mantillas.
Romeo was there in a handsome pale
blue costume, his sword dangling at
his side, and pretty Juliet hanging on
his arm. Bismarck was dancing with
the flower girl who dressed as a rose,
was spraying every one with perfume
from an atomizer Several cowboys
stalked about the room, making eyes
at baby girls whose curls hung de-
murely over white and checkered
frocks.
The picturesque Spanish costumes
predominated. A few were dressed in
the typical garb of the Mexican lower
fighters with flowing sashes and short
Jackets. Personality was sacrificed to
the character assumed, each person
acting the part represented.
Is Gay Affair
The natural grace and gallantry of
the congenial Mexican temperament
helped lend a tone of reality to the
whole affair. The musical rhythm of the
soft Spanish speech, interrupted at in
tervals by the harsher sounding English
phrases, made a continual buzz that
filled the large ball room during the
evening.
Waltzes and two-steps were inter-
spersed with Mexican "danzas," while
several members of the club contribut-
ed to the success of the evening by
dancing typical Spanish dances with
true Spanish grace. Senorita Luz Mon
teverde, dressed as a Grecian maiden,
danced the "Jarabe" with Senior Eu-
genio Mercade, the couple being APP
plauded until they returned several
times to the floor to repeat the per-
formance.
One of the main events of the even
ing was the "Jota," danced by Senorita
Corella and Senior Jose Escobar, both
dressed in Spanish costume. Besides
the several German figures and the
leap-year dances, the confetti dance
aroused great interest. The girls and
boys were lined on opposite sides of the
room, and after performing several
dance figures began the confetti battle,
which ended in every one being covered
with myriad pieces of the colored con-
fetti.
senorita Carlota Corella and her
mother, Mrs Josephine Lindley Co
rella-Phipps, were the most instru-
mental in bringing about the organiza-
tion of the club The young Mexicans
invited many of their American friends
who entered heartily into the spirit of
the occasion. The ball room was deco
rated with colored lights and the walls
hung with alternating american and
Mexican nags.
Wear Gay Gowns
Among those who attended were:
Senoritas Luz Monteverde of Hermo-
sillo, Mexico, dressed as a Grecian
maiden: Maria Luisa Pesqueira of
Hermosillo, dressed as Pierrot; Maria
Luisa Maytoreno of Hernosillo, dressed
as a doll; Maria Monteverde of Her
mosillo, as a gypsy; Adelina Wolfe of
La Colorado, Mexico. as a pink rose;
Julia Wolfe of La Colorara, dressed as
Mexico; Ruth Shepherd of Los Ange-
les. as a Spanish woman; Laurita
Kimball of Los Angeles, as Grecian
maiden; Lolita Corela of Los Ange-
les, as Spanish woman; Alice Weyse
of Los Angeles, as colonial dame; Fay
Crandall of Los Angeles, as country
girl: Senorita Lola Bruell of Los An
geles, as colonial dame. \
Senores: Eduardo Maytorena of Her
mosillo, as mosqueteer; Carlos Roun-
tree of Hermosillo, as mosqueteer;
Carlos Maytorena of Hermosillo, as
Louis XIV; Francisco Arvizu of Ures,
as colonial; Jesus Guemes of Culiacan,
as duke of Mantua; Alfonso Carrillo
of Lower California, as Charles ";
Rodolfo Garayzar of Santa Rosalia, as
Mephistopheles; Alexandra Iberri of
Guaymas as Charro Juan Andrade or
Ures, as Charro; Guillermo Borboa of
Fuerte, Sinaloa, as Charro; Alvino AL
rnada of Alamos, as Faust; Jose Esco-
lar Of Chihuahua, as Charro; Il. Ter
razas of Chihauhua, as Louis XVI;
lose Monero Salido of Alamos, as Ro-
,neo: Patricio Robles of Fuetre, as
Kaiser; Haines Reed of Los Angeles,
as buIl-fghter; Julio Cubillas of Her
naoAillo, as French courtier.
Patronesses and onlookers: Madames
phinps. Maytorena. Monteverde, Esca-
lante, Woolfe, Maytorena, klmpali,
Brueil and the Misses Dolores Round
tress. Natalia and Mercedes Maytor-
ena. Carmen Aguilar, Dolores Salido
Maria Teresa Petanck Miss Lacy
and Miss Rivas. NJ
Senores: Mercado of Mexico CITY re-
lIciano and Alfonso MonteVerde,
Haines Reed, John Lindley Phipps and
George Kimball