The Republican journal., 1910-06-02
"THE FESTIVAL OF LANTERNS.
Successfully Presented by Meeunticook
Grange.

"The Festival of Lanterns" produced by Me-
gunticook grange, delighted large audience in
the Camden Opera House Friday night, May
GOTH The hall was decorated With 900 Japanese
lanterns. The entertainment consisted of 26
numbers, in which the towns vocal and instru-
mental musical talent appeared to striking ad-
vantage.
The following type characters were repre-
sented Scotch lassie, Miss Flora Pillsbury
Japanese maid Mrs. John Matthews; Gretchen,
Mrs. Frank Bolerson; Swiss peasant, Mrs. Bert
Crosby; French maid, Mrs Arthur Ames: tam
BOURNE girl, Miss Helen Quigley; gypsy maid
Miss Agnes Head, daughter of the regiment
Miss Anna Packard; Spanish maid, Miss Helen
Ritterbush; Irish lass, Miss Jennie Hardy;
Mexican maid. Mrs. Ralph Ingraham; the navy,
Miss Pearl Dickens; Italian girl, Miss Emma
Ritterbush; American girl, Miss Faustina Pack
ard.
Among the special features was the military
band, which received hearty encore for its
medley. The members We're, Mrs. Herbert
Currier, leader, Mrs E. L. Matthews. Mrs
Florence Sprowl. Mrs. C. S. Gardner, Mrs. w.
S. Irish. Mrs. Flora Patterson, Mrs. Louise
Walker, Mrs Robert Hardy, Mrs Julia Dow
and Mrs. Annie Elweli. The festival orches-
ira, Frank Alexander director, was made up as
follows: W. S. Leighton. Miss Carolyn Robin
son and Miss Gertrude Marshall violins, Frank
Alexander, clarinet, Ernest Herrick, cornet,
Ernest Wddoes and Ed Prince, trombones. L,
Bramhall, string bass, Harry Stearns. drums
and Earl Patterson, piano. 1.-The Village Choir
of 1910" and "Uncle Josh Perkins orchestra"
provoked much mirth.
Another musical organization giving some
very pleasing numbers was the Robinson banjo,
mandolin and guitar club, composed of Miss
Carrie Robinson, leader, Mrs. E. L. Matthews,
Mrs. Margaret Maxey, Mrs. E. ]. Elwell, May
nard Gould Miss Jessie Hosmer, Miss Agnes
Head, Miss Doris Hyler, Ralph Wooster and
Ed Prince. N. W. Littlefeld was conductor of
the large chorus and Mrs. Belle Tyler, pianist
The soloists were Mrs. John Matthews, Miss
Anna Packard, Miss Agnes Head, Fred A.
Packard, A. B. Widdoes, Frank Clark, C. D.
Wadsworth and Alberta Thompson. The solo,
lists of the children's chorus were Isabel Dor
rity and Mildred Widdoes. Character songs
were rendered by Ed Wells, Dick Martz and
Alvah Anderson.
The following part songs displayed excep-
tional merit: Sextet, Life is See-Saw," Mary
Hanly, Priscilla Schwartz, Vera Head, John
Mathews, Dick Martz, Benson Knight; duet,
"You and l." Miss Anna Packard and Orville
Gross; Trio, Wouldn't You Like to Have Me
for a Sweetheart" Helen Ritterbush Faustina
Packard and Pearl Dickens. The Chestnut-st.
male quartet consisting of Frank M. Clark, F.
A. Packard A. B. Widdoes and C. D. Wad-
sworth, sang Kentucky Babe" and my Dream
of the U. S. A."
The large chorus was made up of Mrs. Ann
cite Mathews, Mrs. Minnie Ingraham, Mrs.
Inez Crosby, Mrs. Julia Dow, Mrs. Mary S.
Patterson, Mrs. ]. F. Mathews, Mrs. Carrie
Hardy, Mrs. Ina Robertson, Mrs. Fred Packard,
Mrs. Flora Patterson, Mrs. Annie Elwell, Mrs.
c. S. Gardner, Mrs. Lizzie Currier, Mrs Jessie
Clark, Mrs. Mary Metcalf, Mrs. W. S. Irish,
Mrs. Florence Sprowl, Mrs. Lottie Ames, Mrs.
E. j. Elwell, Mrs. G. w. Glover, Mrs F. M.
Robinson, Clarence A. Matthews, Jesse ].
Handy, ]. T. Mathews, Herbert Hardy, Ray
mond Dow, c. D. Wadsworth, A. B. Widdoes,
Benson knight, Waldo Tyler, Ernest Herrick,
E. J. Elwell, Fred A. Packard, R. Hardy, Alvah
Anderson, Howard Barbour, Virgil Widdoes,
Frank Clark, Albert Day, Henry W. Gould,
William Sterling, Ralph Clark, Faustina Pack
ard, Marion Bucklin, Carolyn Robinson, Myrtle
Andrews Josephine L. Jones, Helen Quigley,
Dorothy Bickford, Jennie Hardy, Mabel Her
rick. Lena Bohlin, Vera Head, Agnes Norton,
Elizabeth Qugley, Sadie Norwood, Flora Pills
bury. Fannie Morgan, Gertrude Wasgatt. Ada
Thompson, Gladys Dodge, Myra Achorn, Anna
Packard, Mary Hanley, Agnes Head, Estelle
Handren, Priscilla Schwartz, Annie ellis, Lii
liam Giles. Helen Ritterbush Susie Thompson.
Rita Carver, Gladys Clark, Emma Ritterbush
Mildred Woodcock, Vera Wadsworth. Geneva
Murphy, Norma Millay, Viola Widdoes, Pearl
Dickens, Marion Knowlton, Mary Dodge, Es-
telle Monroe. Jessie Tilden, Lillian johnson
and Sadie Dean.