Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-12

dance claimed the major part of the
applause and encores demanded again
and again. This, it should be under
stood, was in no sense juvenile
amateur performance but a veritable
production from the best vaudeville
houses.
Mrs. Odiorne and partner furnished
the audience with good interpreta-
ton of the genuine Maurice Tango,
as danced by it's creator in Hammer
STEMS and the Winter Garden at New
York. Mrs. Odiorne had made care
full study of the steps and used the
same music as Maurice.
Opening Number.
The opening number of the pro-
gram was the Irish Reel tripped by
the well-trained feet of Misses Helen
Harris Hilda Bangs. Dorothy Currier.
Evelyn Pierce, Katherine Wyman,
Virginia Holway, Lily Griffith, Mary
Busha, Thelma Mann and Marie
Cram.
Miss Harris, who led the reel,
danced with the true Tilt and abandon
of the typical Irish peasant brough.
across the water by our leading
vaudeville promoters. The entire
dance went with real snap and finish,
every one of these accomplished little
misses being letter perfect in her
part. They made a charming pic
ture in their peasant costumes and
their enjoyment was as potent as that
of the enthusiastic spectators.
A Coming Donald Brian.
Next came Master Leo King Fox in
the CaiIor,c Horn nine and the ~
and grace with which he danced fore
tells a future Donald Brian in this
lad. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Fox of Augusta.
Then came the 3cary are-croWs
for their terpsichorean test. 1t was
comedy personiiied. stepped in re-
markahle manner by Crawford Cat
comb, Charles Babbitt. Stanley DOUG
lass, Kendall Davis, Everett Mower,
Jr., and Henry Bangs. The applause
which followed was hearty express
sion of the audiences appreciation IF
a funny act we'll done.
A Beautiful Act.
"The Fairy's Gift" featured Alice
Goodridge in ballet dance. This little
girl, with training. would develop into
premiere, her talent in ballet work
being very marked. Mother Goose char
acters, stril1ingly posed, were brought
to active life by the touch of a fairy
wand. They We're all there, silent AMI
suggestive of pages from that good, ola
book, the first literature of our child
ho9d-Little Miss Muffet, Dorothy
Stone; Little Bo-Peep, Caroline Whit
tier; MISTRESS Mary, Dorothy Wyman:
Queen of Hearts, Arleen Gentbner; Jill,
Adriene Theberge; Mary and her
Lamb, Katherine Dolliver.
Yesterday and Today remarkably
staged, depicted in happy vein the dif
ference between the stately old minuet
and the ungraceful rag steps but re-
Gently raised from the vulgar by some
of our regrettably .'up-to- date dancers
The characters of the minuet Miss
Lillian Marston, Frank Babbitt Miss
Marion Mower Victor Heath, Miss
Gertrude Mower and Milton Bangs,
handled their parts cleverly. leaving
nothing to be desired in their difficult
parts.
The grandmother and grandfather,
Miss Helen Thompson and Earl Coop
or, are very much pleased by this ex
hibition, but a moment later become
properly shocked by the advent OF
four dancers apparently from the ques-
tionable halls of cur large cities This
part, however, was in the hands-or
should we say feet-of Augustus young
men noted for dancing ability: Miss
Lawrence ''Tessie' Purinton and Fred
erick Benn, and Miss" James,
"Mayme" Harvey and c. Willis Town
send,
la Joyeuse Danse," mentioned, was
followed by the new steps of the tru9
Tango as interpreted by Mrs. obi
orEe and Edwin Chadbourne, this lat
ter dance being in "A cleared place in
the hall floor. It was well received and
accorded generous applause from the
younger set who had come to learn
some of the figures.
General dancing then began and was
enjoyed by a large crowd until mid
night.
Mrs Odiorne, seen by a Journal re-
porter after the exhibition, declared
herself unable to express her gratitudel
for and admiration of the ability Of
her little students. Il can show them