Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-31
BENEFIT CONCERT
BENEFITED ALL
No One Could Have the
Blues at the Adobe Grand
Last Night
PROFESSIONAL SAND AMATEURS
They Wed With One Another
In Making Affair Huge
Success.

lhe benent concert Ior the sisters
sanitarium, given at the Adobe Grand
opera house last night by profess
sonals and amateurs, was well nam
ed. AS the poet said of Mercy it
was twice blessed, benefting those
for whom it was given and those who
gave toward it.
Among the latter, certainly the Lii
putian contortionist5 must be men,
toned. There were two of them and
they were the twin stellar attrac-
ton" from the moment they stepped
out before the footlights until they
tripped off the stage. They are call
ed the Artega twins, and their sup
pleness of frame was the admiration
of every man or woman who has tried
to climb into a seat in the center of
a row at the theater, or who has been
forced to accept an upper berth on
Pullman, or who has had designs on
seat in a trolley car when some
portly persons occupied more than
their Just share of the throne. The
Artega Twins fulfill the twentieth
century requirement of arousing in
terest for they are cute-they are
cunning. They excel even Helen's
famous babies, who leaned over a
Fof.p tn
equilibrium maintaining powers.
Wall and White.
Another interesting act" was that
by Wall and White, who were seen
and heard in "The Hebrew and the
Maid. The maid of course is the boy
who looks and talks like a girl (until
"she" removes her" wig) and "she"
was very clever. The Hebrew imper-
senator was as good as seen any
where, and his jokes were told with
the ease of an old time professional.
Moreover the jokes were not so old
as are often heard and they were not
so English curved out but they were
easily understood. The audience
laughed heartily and said Wall and
Whites act is alone worth the ticket
fee
The SoIoist.
But on jokes and Lilliputian naivite
alone the audience did not thrive for
there was a fine musical program. The
First Regiment band did honors be-
fore the concert, and the band played
with it's old time enthusiasm. There
was nothing ragged about its playing
and the applause given the musicians
was spontaneous.
| Miss Cheshire was the soprano SOLO
! ist and presented a fine appearance in
pretty gown and carrying in her
left hand a bouquet of white sweet
peas which were no sweeter than the
song she sang in her pleasing So
prano voice. Miss Cheshire's selec-
, ton "Thy Beaming Eyes" made all
music lovers beam with pleasure and
she had to respond to an encore.
Eyes, the poet said, are the noblest
features of the SOUL and even song
about them invariably exacts the toll
of applause, when it is well sung.
Nipponese Were There.
From the Flowery Kingdom came
three dainty maidens sent by the Mi.
kado to assist in the benefit concert.
They were Miss Mary Force, Miss
Anita Baca and Miss Ramona Baca.
They were attired in gorgeous robes
seen in the land of the Mikado, and
they walked with the same soft and
delicate" tread consistent with the
subtle charm of Japan. Their para
solos twirled with more than Waltz
Me Around Again Willie" grace, and
when they smiled, their eyes reflected
tue mirth of their pretty little mouths.
This trio of maids from Toxic of
course, had to be recalled and when
they returned they had their fans in
stead of parasols and looked very cute
sitting as at tea party.
There were lots of moving pictures,
that actually moved, between the acts.
They moved little too much, but in
time, their locomotor ataxia is to be
cured with a suitable mechanical de-
vice.
4 Lady Ushers.
The lady ushers had all they could
do to select seats for the throng
which filled the theater even before
the curtain was rung up. Miss Estel-
la Bergere, Miss Morrison and Miss
4 Hinojos were the ushers and Mrs.
Mechem was at the ticket office. Even
the fair ushers could not provide
!, seats for every one and scores stood
up rather than miss the performance.
Those who got up the concert are
very grateful to every one who took
part in it and the professionals. it is
said, refused to accept penny for
their trouble, donating every cent to
the sanitarium.