The Washington herald., 1908-05-05

It was five OF the society chorus girls
from the lately defunct "The Prince of
Pereheesf' company" gathered in the
ballroom at the apartments of Miss r. W.
Spofford, she who was the dainty and
graceful 0 Kiko San in that show.
For a sort Of a reunion of the merry
company the call had been issued-that
Is, invitations had been sent QUITO the
entire company. But alas. these show
people do scatter so! Some of them are in
country places In Virginia. others have
already gone to the seashoTe. and yet
others are on their way to other lands
Still. there were enough left so that it
looked as il the whole show was there.
And there was enough beauty in the ball
room 70 insure the success Of any show.
Girls Wear Costumes.
Some girls came In costume. That
helped the merriment There was Miss
Sessions in that striped gingham dress
that so successfully hid all curves and
made her figure seem all angles. There
vas the pretty hostess, Miss Spofford in
the beautiful gray kinlono with wistaria
blooms on il. There were some of the
Dear Little Old-time Girls" as the song
designated them. with short frocks and
red silk stoc--. Mrs Randall Hagner
was in costume And those not in cos
tune looked Ike show-girls anyway.
Besides being a reunion OF the COM
pany, the gathering was also for the pur-
pose Of bidding Miss SpOffOrd good-by.
In two weeks she is off to Europe, where
she hopes to study vocal music for
long time and 50 be able 20 come back
and be a real prima donna
There was dancing and jOllity and rem
iniscences Of the show. By this time
most Of the people who worked so hard
10 make the Prince of Parcheesi"
success have recovered from the ineyita-
bic reaction. They went at the old songs
and dances again with renewed vim and
energy.
Miss Darlington Loses ParasOI.
There was Miss Alice Goodwin. beauti-
fully sunburned from Virginia house
party, vino last night in the eakewalk
was so energetic she was in the air most
of the time. And there was Miss Sally
Darlington. who had lovely time until
she discovered her pretty pOlka-dot para
sol was missing. and refused to be con-
sOled
Here is a free want ad:
LOST-ONE SILK PARASOL: WHITE. WITH
polka dots Please return 90 Miss SALLY GAR
LINGT0N and receive reward Of merit.
OF course, Mr. Percy Leech. the man
VINO directed the show, was at hand, and
the author of the music presided at the
! piano. There has been some talk Of
! fuk- he -. Elafff E-~
one performance. So Mr.. Leech said:
Come on. Let's have a rehearsal for
Baltimore"
AS the familiar music struck up only
about half dozen Of the original open
| ing chorus got in line and sang:
Happy Little Maideus, We"
There the rehearsal stopped
I'm not going 10 take this bunch to
Baltimore If they can't sing better than
that. said the director. That ended the
| prospects of the tour
| But there was lots Of fun. For the
nonce Miss Spofford became o Kiko San
again and sang Down on Ny Smiling
/ Island. and was applauded again and
again. The same happy chorus that sang
| II in the show sang Dear Little Old
/ Time Girl" and did the dance, too, al
/ though most Of them had on long trains
/ that got sadly in the way Of the kicking
part Of the dance.
Chorus Sung by Every One.
Phil Scantling sang his fine song. "The
| Land I Love" and every one Joined in
the chorus. And George O'Connor sang
those negro melodies that made such a
/ hit with the show. When it came TO the
! song, "Campmeeting Time" the whole
party Joined in the cakewalk As the
Bingvf1le Bugle says. "A good time was
had"
The party was increased late in the
evening when the Misses Slack and 9TH
ers came in, fresh from the circus, and
| other stTagglers arrived from the theater
| But Miss Spofford's party is probably
| the last echo of THE Prince of Par
| cheesi," the most y successful amateur
play ever given by Washington society
folk And the show won't go to Baiti-
mora. And Miss SpOffOrd Will go 10 Eu-
rope And it is all over but a delightful
memory.
Those Of the "Old guard" who were
present last night were the Misses Sally
| Darlington. Polly Mason, Ruth Halford
Eleanor Ridgely. r. W. Spofford. Alice
Helen, and Vera Downing, Mary and
Addie Slack, Marcy Curtin, Alice Good
win. Elizabeth Goodwin. Edna Ear
tougher. Alice Sheppard. Edith Suther-
Hand, Marguerite Woodward, Anna Port
ner, Marguerite Morse Miss Miller, Jean
Loring. Mrs Randall Hagner. and Mrs
| George Wheeler.
The men were: Messrs. Allen Craig,
Robert c. Mason. DR., Paul Evans, Milton
Lusk. Kendall Evans, Percy Leech, Harry
| Hmrichaus, Melville Church Chauncey
NJ. Sincerbeaux, Franklin B. Green. Rob-
ert Stead, Britton Brown, LIE Roy Cough
Sheldon Wardwell, Edward Cady. jr
Hamilton Baxter, Harry Crist, Leonard
INickersou, Orville Ecker, and Philip Lee
| Seantling.