New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
Oriental Bazaar Brings
Liberal Crowd to College
i'm Aid of Fund.
CAMPUS AND HALLS
OPEN TO MERE MEN
Girls Shine in Vaudeville and
Circus, While Eastern Costumes
Add to Charm of Scene.

For many weeks any one connected
with Barnard College has been receiving
an invitation. 1t runs as follows:
When Mays first buds perfume the
balmy air
Come student. parent teacher, million
aire;
Enjoy yourselves and help the build
ing fund
OF Barnard at the Oriental Fair.
Yesterday afternoon and evening
from 2 10 ~ p. m. Barnard's campus,
stately halls, lunchrooms lin the CELLAR.
studies and theatre were crowded with
a merry. money spending. happy crowd.
entertained by damsels Of all ages and
kinds, dazzling in Turkish, Chinese, Jap
anese. Hawaiian and Indian costumes.
The campus was a mass Of color. with
tiny tents surrounding one huge circus
top"
Twenty-Five cents admission let any
one ian unusual thing at Barnard for the
StTOlStl SEA IL Usually cANiNNtN' NV shS
campus and IS cents bought round trip
ticket to all the variety shows, including
a ride on real live horse, which was
kept busy working his full ten hours.
game of ring toss and Fortune Told"
The circus and the vaudeville were the
greatest points Of interest-three circus
performances preceded by grand parade
Of animals This was repeated in the
evening. The bleachers were filled each
time.
The ringmaster was L. Fox, bedecked
in a brilliant green and a whip, r.
schwarzwaelder lent him inspiration In
the role Of Mrs. Ringmaster. Clowns
sported about. The most popular was f.
Thompson, 1916, who held her mouth
eagerly open for the peanuts that came
from the top row Of bleachers. An ele-
plant, with many mechanical accoutre-
ments, such as an oft-performing syphon
and wigley eyes swung into the ring on
wabbly legs of two seniors IN. Engler
and j. Dale) with Elaine the Fair. four
year-old baby elephant, composed of two
freshmen (E. Davis, II; 3. Walker, 10.
A camel was next on the programme.
It's circus trick was to do respiration ex-
ercises.'
Following the acrobatic dance OF Mord-
| kin g. Rittenberg, 10 and Pavlowa OK.
narrower. 'l6) came aesthetic dancing by
many bears, trained by +. Lupp. who lee
them successfully through the intricacie'
/ of the maxixe. Accompaniment was slver
/ by the success of the circus. loud Voicec
comb-and- tin-pan band, led by Sarah Blu.
| Ter. rs. and Freda Kirchwey, rs.
The snake charmer proved the Interest
! OF the Barnard student in matters OF cur
| rent interest Teddy and Huerta, the
trained snakes, wound themselves about a
doubty charmer.
The giraffe was trained by Mrs. Ring
master II was manned by Grace Moore,
/ II (fore) and Mary Talmage, II (aft
Its long neck was thrust forward by q
successful system Of internal signals tc
devour peanuts.
In the dip OF death" P. Felix. II. rode
her small brothers velocipede safely down
from great heights to the centre OF the
ring.
For the beneht OF the children" Blue
beard" was given last on the programme
| with an sll-star cast.
! Blucbeard. .................S. Buonocore, ~
/ Sister Anne. .................... T.. katr, u
| \ BrotheF. ''.'.'.......s...J. Jacopy' ~
/ \ Brother. ..............-....T. Cnger. II
other attractions on the campus were
] tho forttine-telling gypsy (B Anlidor) and