The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-20
Society In
the Oranges

On Tuesday morning, October 26, at
1880 o'clock, at the Woman's Club
house, East Orange, the pupils of the
Misses Clarke's School will present an
operetta entitled THE Toy Shop" The
audience will be transported through
the efforts of these little people to the
meeting place of the fairies, which is
on a night in May, Just before II
o'clock. Puck, the leader of the fairies,
| William Dixon Carr, will whisper to
the Fairy Queen. Elizabeth Olds Ged-
ney, that If the whole company of
fairies, elves, etc., shall proceed to
certain toy shop before midnight 1t will
be possible to call all the dolls to life
and enjoy delightful experiences in the
way of frolic.
The second scene Is the interior of
the toy shop, and the dolls-paper dolls,
French dolls, rag dolls and tin soldiers
-mingle in the midnight revel. There
will also be music by Miss Gertrude
Reazor and violin solos by Miss Mar
garet Reazor. There will be no adj
mission charged, but, through the
courtesy of the Misses Clarke, baskets
will be provided to receive voluntary
offerings for the Japanese Villa of
Cosmovilla. The cast is as follows:
Puck, William Dixon Carr; Queen of
the Fairies, Elizabeth Olds Gedney;
fairies, Evelyn Allen, Charlotte Afford.
Lydia Davis, Marion Hopkinson and
Doris Woodruff; elves, Donald Gedney,
Charles Afford and Richard Sebring;
rag doll, Hazel Spire; paper doll, Har-
riet Taylor; French dolls, Mary Car
penter and Marion Watson, Francis
Little and rancis Sebring; Japanese
dolls, Catherine Allen, Eleanor Over
man and Edith Taft; tin soldiers, War
rem Dixon, jr., Preston Watson, John
B%errigan and Gordon Mccoy; jacks in
the box, William Clark and Frank Nc
Coy, jr. Solos, Water Lilies" Marion
Hopkinson, n "Slumber Boat" Cath
crime Dixon.
A most appreciative audience greeted
Miss Amy Grant, of New York, yester-
day afternoon. who gave a remarkably
fine Interpretation of Strauss new
opera, "Elektra,' at the residence of
Mrs. Arthur b. Leach, 321 Scotland
road, South Orange, the affair being
one of the entertainments arranged by
the Italian Villa of Cosmovilla. The
spacious music room in the residence
of Mrs. Leach was most attractive
with ferns and autumn foliage. Miss
Grant gave the story of the opera with
musical setting. and her accompanies
was Miss Elizabeth Ruggles, who ably
supported Miss Grant. The entire play
is a recital of revenge, with scarcely
a light touch. The heroine. Elektra, is
the elder daughter of King Againem-
non, who is murdered. In consequence
Elektra, by whom he is greatly be-
loved, becomes almost a lend and lives
solely to avenge those who planned the
murder. This she accomplishes, and
then follows her own death. Miss Grant
has wonderful power in her dramatic
art and a faultless memory She has
appeared in London and many of the
large American cities.
The story of the opera is the same as
that im~mortalized in the tragedies OF
~Sophocles and Euripides, each bear
ing the name of Elektra. The text,
however, is modern, the work of a Ger
man. Hugo o Hofmannsthal. AS a
play it has beer on the German stage
for some years, and the English YER
sion was given in New York by Mrs.
Patrick Campbell.
The Swiss villa of Cosmovilla has
planned a novel entertainment for Fri
day night, when a barn dance will be
held at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Thayer Cozzens, las Harrison
street, East Orange, arranged by Miss
Marie Cozzens and Miss Carol Douglass.
The guests will dress in costumes ap-
propriate to a harvest dance.
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Miss Mildred Crisis, of 165 Park ave-
nue., Orange, will give a hearts party
or Friday evening, October 20, in aid
OF the Irish villa of Cosmovilla. The
chairman of that villa is Mrs. T.
O'Connor Sloane, of South Orange.