Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
WILL GIVE BENEFIT
FOR BOYS SCHOOL
CHILDREN ARE TO PRESENT
entertainment
Big Crowd Expected at Auditorium
When Fairyland Characters viii
Appear to Help Mckinley
Industrial Home

and Lilliputian carnival of nations
gives promise of filing the auditor
ium on the evening of April 30 and at
the May day matinee on Saturday.
The boxes for both performances are
nearly all sold and the tickets are al
ready in good demand.
The one hundred and fifty or more
young people and children now hard
at work renearsing the various parts
are delighted with the beautiful music
and graceful dancing steps and have
entered into the spirit of the entertain
ment in a way that assures its success
The operetta is to be presented in
two acts and the opening scene is
fairy garden filled with a profusion OF
flowers. From a gigantic unfolding
rose energies Titania, the queen of the
fairies, this role being taken by Miss
Pearl Teetzel. Prince Obdillous, the
ruler of the Mystic Midgets," is i'm
personated by Marie Sweet Baker and
her clear, strong voice will be heard
to advantage in this part.
Psyche, the queens companion and
the embodiment of love, is Miss Louise
George. Uglio, an ogre on mischief
bent is impersonated by w. j. Chase.
There are also character songs and
speeches representing all nations;
gnomes in the service of Uglio and the
various attendants of queen in
fairyland. Changing calcium lights
will add beauty to the scenes.
Many pleasing specialties will be in
troduced. The Queen Louise Gavotte"
will be danced by the following young
women: Mildred Kupper, Maud Adams,
Annie Pease, Frances Hyer, ZOraya
Foley, Charlotte Cox, Mrs. S. F. How
land, Margaret McNeeley, Mamie
Voight, Rowena Barney, Eugene Rix-
on, Rosalie Mcdonald, Madge Schalk,
i A-I.+s.
Louise Hyer and Ethelyn Carson.
Sextet to Sing
There also will be the dancing of
graceful figures and singing by a sex
tet composed of Misses Sara Bonner,
Florence Parker Ethel Parker, Regina
Marlinow, Rose B. Clemens and Mrs.
Zelma Wagner.
The women in charge of the groups
at the rehearsals are: Gnomes, Mrs.
ca E. Payne; butterflies, Mrs. H. S.
Hurlbut; fairies, Mrs. w. F. Pleas;
jockeys, Mrs E. w. Gilmore; archers,
Mrs. Henry Morris; sextet, Mrs. o. ].
Sweet; Queen Louise gavotte, Mrs. H.
S. Hurlbut.
The central committee of arrange
ments is composed of Mrs. G.. Alexan-
der Bobriclx, Mrs. Florence Collins
Porter, Mrs. G. A. Brock, and Mrs. H.
S. Hurlbut, and the patronesses are
Mesdames Adna r. Chaffee, l. N. Van
Mugs, John r. Haynes, c. B. Nichols,
w. w. Neur, Joseph Banning, Stoddard
Jess, Curtis d. Wilbur, Robert j. Bur-
dette, E. S. Rowley, Mary Banning,
Arthur Let's H. l.. Story, Altadena'
Johnson, P. G. Hubert, Milo Potter,
w. ]. Hole, d. K. Edwards, Randall
Hutchinson, C. II. McKevett, Clara w.
Cries, c. E. Payne, Niles Pease, F. B.
Emerson, Valentine Peyton, W. w.
Neuer, Lyman Farwell, Mathew Rob-
ertson, jefferson d. Gibbs, c. NJ Sew
erance, Eglehoff- Rundel, 90. Wither-
bee, j. w. Trueworthy. Augustus Hine,
Andrew Stewart Lobingier, Frank
Vickery, H. Clay Breeder, William
Stanton, Pasadena; Sumner Payson
Brown, Edgar l.. Swaine, c. c. Des-
mond o. j. Sweet, w A Lamb, w. J.
Variel, Richard Drew, H. L. Yerger,
j. Probst, E. w. Gilmore. Abner Ross,
D. E. Luther, L. A. Gould, Norman
Bridge. Pasadena; w. B. Scott, NJ. H.
Whittier and W. Davenport.
At the matinee Saturday afternoon
the lobby will be brilliant with flowers
of many hues, for Mrs. W. W. Neuer
is to have charge of a flower booth
with bevy of pretty young girls as
assistants. Mrs. c. B. Nichols will
dispense dainties from a candy booth
W all WHO VIII purchase.
The tickets for the operetta may be
secured at several of the principal
stores of the city, cards having been
placed announcing the sale of the
same. These tickets will be exchanged
for the regular theater tickets at the
box office, commencing Monday, April
rs. Mrs. HI. S. Hurlbut is chairman
of the ticket committee.
To Increase Building Fund
This benefit entertainment is to in
crease the building fund of the Nc
Kinley Industrial Home society, which
Is hoping to raise $4,000 to make some
greatly needed additions to the home
this year. There are 100 boys there
now and half as many more are on
waiting list for admission.
The cottages are already overcrowd-
ed and another one at least ought to
be built this year. A greater need
even than this is a laundry and dry
ing room. An assembly hall too, is
greatly needed.
The home is situated on the San
Pedro electric line, twelve miles from
Los Angeles, but within the city limits.
On the farm of eighty acres there are
crops of alfalfa, strawberries, black
berries and all kinds of vegetables,
the work being done by the farm SUI
perintendent, with the assistance of
the boys.
A herd of fifteen cows furnishes
fresh milk and fine, sweet butter. The
home kitchen is neat and attractive
and under the best of management.
The dormitory work is all done by the
boys and reflects credit on their house,
keeping abilities. A fine new school
house built by the city is one of the
improvements of the past year. With
in the last week, through the generous
donations of the Southern California
Music company and of c. A. Garfield.
a brass band of a dozen pieces has
been formed. with George A. Isbell as
instructor.
The Mckinley Industrial Home So
ciety has recently been reorganized
and the board of directors increased
from seven to twenty-one. The presi
dent of the society is Valentine Pey-
ton, but an adjourned meeting from
the annual one held in January is soon
to be called to elect his successor, as
Mr.. Peyton wishes to be released from
the duties of the office.
The name of c. A. Garfield will be
brought forward as president, with
Valentine Peyton, M. H. Whittier and
Richard Green as vice presidents 1t
is the expectation OF the society to
erect in the near future, or at least
make a beginning toward that end,
some mechanical shops where the boys
can be taught trades. Sloyd is taught
in the public school. but cannot of
course, be carried far enough to full
fill the requirements of an industrial
education such as was intended when
the home was founded.
A quiet canvass has been made for
funds and $1,000 or $4,000 is in sight.
During the next few weeks the cam
paign is to be more vigorously pushed,
Suhscrintinns may he sent to the finan-