Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-02-25
D. A. R. entertainment
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
Large Crowds Attended Both Per-
fOrmances At Mcmillan Audi
tOrium, Monday.
THE PICTURES WERE SPLENDID
Miss Laura Robertson Gave Four
Vocal Solos and Miss Berthe
SprOul Sang One.

One of the most interesting and
delightful entertainments ever given
in Mexico was theone by the Mexico
Chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution at the Mcmillan Audi
torium, Monday afternoon and evening
The house was crowded at both per-
formances and every one was loud in
his praise of the success of the enter
tainment. The Daughters worked
hard and Miss Mary V. Houston and
those who helped her are to be con-
graduated on the splendid success.
| The proceeds will go toward public
drinking fountain on the Square.
The program was opened with a de-
lightful piano duet by Misses Winans
and Witherspoon followed by these
pictures: Baby Stuart, Cortez Ed
monston; Mater Dolorosa, Miss Ad-
die Cunningham; Countess Potocka,
Miss Elizabeth Parker; the Jolly Man
dolinist, Peyton Emmons; Mona
Lisa, Mrs. j. W. Million. The next
musical number was a vocal solo, II
Bacio, by Miss Elberta Sproul. The
second series of pictures included
Madam LIE Brun and Daughter, Mrs.
j. W. Burlington and daughter; Prin-
ces in the Tower, Edwin and Theodore
Winans; Queen Louise, Miss Leila
Winans; Age of Innocence, Mary
Louise Hawthorne; Futurist Girl, Miss
Dorothy Holmes; Georgiana, Duchess
of Devonshire, Miss Rosamond.
The D. A. R. Glee Club, composed |
of Mesdames W. G. Wilkins, P. E. |
Coil, Theo. Winans, S. P. Emmons,
Kate Hammond and Misses Frances
Gill and Lille Dobyns sang Sweet !
and Low and Annie Laurie most de-
ilghtfully, Then followed Joohn Alden
and Priscilla by Miss Witherspoon and |
Bast Davis; Little Miss Muffet, Virginia |
Ellen Wilkins; A Toast to Prince
Charlie, Misses Louise johnson and |
Isabel Gregory; two scenes from Gin
derella, Willie Morris, Helen Frances
Brown, Mary Virginia Nelson and
Johnston Coil.
Miss Laura Robertson, one of Mex |
ico's most beautiful singers gave two
numbers Sylveni and Down In the |
Forest at this time and two later on |
the program. The other numbers
were My Little Gray Home In the
West and Southern Song. The re-
naming pictures were Children of
Charles1, Helen Million, James Ell
Ter and Dorrance Edmonston; Hia-
watha and Minnehaha, Marsena John.
son and Frank Wilkins; The Angelus,
Miss Louise johnson and Bast Davis;
Schism in Church, Misses Gill aud
Cook; George Washington and his
family, Mesdames S. P. Emmons and
Winans, Miss Amelia Graham and
Kenneth Davis.
Following the pictures, Misses Isa-
bel and Pauline Craddock, Virginia
Parker and India johnson gave the
dance, Spirit of Spring from "Pan-
dora's Box" and Gladys Huenefeld,
Abbie Nealy, Alice Graham, Hazel
Guthrie, Thos. Mcintyre, Clarence
Campbell, Leroy Thomas and En-
NETT Dermody gave minuet.
The evening was closed with the
singing of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" by the entire audience.
The committee in charge of the en-
tertainment was as follows:
Miss Mary Houston, chairman;
Mines. T. H. Winans, Elon Dearing,
j. L. Johnson; Misses Maude Wallace,
Rosamond, Sproul, and Tine Houston.
The D. A. R. wants to thank Mes
srs. Collett and Street, and Mines.
Kelso, Burlington and Sappington;
Miss Victoria Brooks and Miss
Vaughan, of Hardin College, and the
young ladise and gentlemen of the
minuet, for their assistance in the en-
tertaiment.