The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-12-22
WAS
TRANSPLANTED
QUAEN TTTANIA AND HER COURT
ENCHANTED BROWNSVILLE
Butterfly Carnival Given By Miss BIC
Davitt's Court Was 3 Delight TO the
Mortal Eyes that Were Privileged
to Witness 1t.

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Fiary lands fancifuI little people
were transpIanted to the stage of the
Celford Theater last Friday night and
there made visible to a goodly num-
| Der of mortals, who really, you know,
are not supposed to be around when
the elin folks are disporting them
selves. But these mortaIS were cry
good and we'll behaved, much better,
one might say, if of a critical mind.
than that vengefuI moth, the miller,
| for instance, who would have bitten
and slain the beautiful Airie and her
attendant butterflies had not Puck
prevented and, besides. the mortals
had a certain right to be there for
Cpromise not to tell any one?) the
fairies were not really truly fairies
at all but just the little flesh and
blood, IONS and daughters of proud
papaS and mamas, who sat out in
| front, and enjoyed the playing of the
make believe spirits. But, so faith
fully was the atmosphere of child
hood story book lard reproduced,
that one might easily be forgiven for
barking back in thought to the light
heated days when nothing vas real
but those delightful creatures of the
fancy. There on the stage were fair
Titanic, Queen of all little folks who
would Admitting go. and Puck the
merry jester, and fairies and beau
teous butterflies and the fearsOme
ogre aptIy named Uglio, and the mis-
chief making miller, who so well de-
scribea himself. when wives T sharp
and husbands vary a little sport is
necessary. as with husbands general
". Oheron, We think was not indis-
pensible. but the loss of the sceptre
was mighty serious, for of what use
is a fairy queen without the service
of her magic power?
Fairy stories, OF course. must end
happily and this was no exception to
the ~invariabIe rule After various
heart trying experiences occasioned
by the froIicsoIne proclivities of her
merry messenger, Puck, tt whose
care Oberon had resigned the magic
wand both wand nd truant husband.
were restored to Titania, Puck re
gained tie favor Of his fair mistress
and the mean minded miller was Civ
en- over to the care of the awful ogre
While extended individual mention
is unnecessary as all the children did
exceedingly well, the principal honors
of the evening were undoubtedly
shared by Miss stella Florence Bes-
teiro in the character of Airie, Frank
Armstrong as Puck and Lambert Cain
as Both, the miller. The surprising
thing was that all the parts were
! played so well and that the children
had maRaed to memorize their lines,
some quite long, and repeat them
with hardly 4 break. The costum-
ing was exceedingly good, especial
ly of the butterfly queen and her at
PENDANTS. All the children who
took part deserve commentator for
the unaffected, natural way in which
they acted, after the first few mo-
ments of stage fright had passed
and he success of the production re-
fleets great credit upon Miss Media
witt.
Following the fairy extravaganza,
the Misses Mildred Lastinger and
Rowena Bull portrayed in panto-
mime the story of The Peri" while
Miss McDavitt, standing behind the
scenes. recited MOore's verses. The
posing was exceedingly well done,
the fair Columbines faithfully de
picting the story of the beautiful
lines effectively delivered by Miss
McDayitt.
Miss Norris and Prof. vi
dho prayed the accOmapnImentS for
the songs in the extravaganza and
between the ac-s P. Riverdera
played a violin solo accompanied on
the piano by Miss Morris.
The cast of Titania was as fol-
lows:
Titania, queen of fairies.
Louise P~utegnat
Oberon, Prince Consort Bert Huxley
Puck, the Court Jester f. Armstrong
Silver Wing. fairy, Dorothy Porter
Sparkle, fairy Fay Nell Lanata
Zephyr, fairy, Elizabeth Hart
Twinkle ....-.. Marie Armstrong
Sharpear, Princes Guard
Leon Hinkley
Eyebright, Princes Guard
Bert Hinkley