The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-07
FOREST SETTING
 BEAUTlFIESl WORK { OF YOUNG ARTISTS
MT. and Mrs. Godfrey Pro vide Delight Day For
 Alliance Franchise.
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 It happened in a garden; a garden set down, it seemed. in the midst of. forest of lofty elms and oaks and beeches, high walled, with staunchfy set huge gray stones, and filled with fragrant flowers of a hundred wonder full tines. At the center lay a pool of artistic outline, a fountain playing from it's center and hundreds of gold fish sporting about it's shallow wa ters.
 So princely was the setting that it might have been the afternoon of all most any June fifth of several cen- turies-tfle hour was A o'clock.
 A word of French was heard and the answer, also in French. Could the magnificent residence, which formed the back ground to the scene, be the place of some French king or queen and this a. part of their famed gar dens?
 But a glance over the assemb1age quickly transported one back to the realistic for the people were unn1ts- takab1y American and their costumes could have belonged only to 1915. There was no longer wonder. This was the concluding meeting of the Bridgeport Groupe of the Alliance Francaise--the residence and gardens, the home of its president, Jonathan Godfrey, and the assemblage, it's mem bers and friends.
 MT ana IN1S. +SOOIr6y s guests were seated on either side of the pool on chairs which had been placed on the closely cropped lawn. The pergola where the stage was set for the enter tainment, bore senb1ance to the old Greek in it's length and narrowness and in the fact that it was raised sey- eral steps above the ground.
 The orchestra, which was composed of a harp, a violin nd a cello under the direction of Paul .Gpu1ding, was situated to one side of the pergola and the soil strains which it produced took on an added quality in the open air. As to the entertainment itself, even the old ivy which was draping itself over the gray stone garden walls must have stretched itself several inches to have better viewed the beautiful scene. >
 A dance, f.Au Matin,,'' opened the program, Miss Sybt1- German, repre- senting night, Miss Helen Cowe1 dawn and later day, while four tiny dancers in bright silky costumes, the Misses Lorraine Armstrong, Cora An derson, Dorothy Smith, and Isabel 1 PilIans, were the pinions of light. The four little girls also executed Nature Love and Blossorning, the re- citaI being given in French. Miss tCowen contributed a solo dance, Le- Berceuse, Jocelyn, to a violin duet, by Miss E1sbeth Speicer and Miss Cor man.
 l Miss Marguerite Bishop entertain ed with some charming French songs. ] The singers sweet voice was unusu- l ally charming in the out of doors l and twice, as she slipped into the high 1 notes of the French lyrics, an unbid- l den guest, bird. trilled with her from his tree-top stage. The sweet, 1 powerful notes of the unseen singer should have been regarded by Miss l Bishop as an. unusual tribute to her remarkably good work.
 The tabIealHx vivants, of which | there were ten, were framed in a l large gilded outline, the smaller pie lures being enclosed in golden oval.
 The first picture was ''the head of a girl,'' posed by Miss Minnie Nich- ols This was followed by Gruese's
 tsM11e. Sophie. Arnould,'' posed by
 Mrs Kenneth McNeil. Miss Edith
 Riker represented the Virgin from Bouguereau's -HVirgo Consolatrix, '
 Miss Louise Gould, with Virginia Arnitage, represented Mime. Vigee fLeBrun, and daughter, by Mmme. Le-
 Brun. Miss Louise Powe represented
 Greuze's ''LInnocence Tenant Deux
 Pigeons,'' Miss Alice Pierce, Matters
 ''Marguise de Belgnone," Mrs J. A | Rusling Jr., DaVid's Mime. Serio-
 ziat,' and Miss Barbara Waldo, Da- 1 vid's Madame Recamier." One o1
 the most pleasing of the entire group
 was Bastien Lepage's Jeanne d'Arc'i
 for which Mrs. John R. Reyburn pos
 ed Andre B. LePienne was seen ir
 Edeuard Manet's Boy with a Sword
 Most of the success of the affair is
 due to Miss Louise Gould who plan
 ned and worked out the tabIeauv; and
 at the conclusion of the entertain
 ment a rising vote of thanks wa:
 given to her and to all who had par
 ticfpated.
 Five monks from the Dominican