The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-03-09
THE CIVIC CLUB entertainment
Many Beautiful Scenes In Connection
With Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works.

With Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works.
The opinion of everyone who saw the
entertainment given by the Ladies Civic
Club at the Maryland Theatre on Mon
day, March 9th, is the same, and the
universal verdict is 1.-The best amateur
show we ever saw" AS there was
standing room only at the performance.
the show was a financial success. 1t
should have been called a musical
comedy, and some of the talent could
make good as professionals.
1t would be hard to say Just what
part was the best, or to say which
feature was the most enjoyable
Before the entertainment proper Mr..
Tatrow, representing the Morrison
Music Company of Cumberland, and
Mr.. W. A. Sturgiss, of Oakland, gave
an exhibition of the Aoelian Vocation,
the latest and best in the way of a
graphophone. This wonderful nstru-
ment filled the whole theatre with it's
great volumn of tone, giving the i'm
preston that the band or orchestra that
made the record was really playing, and
yet the tone could be softened and re-
duced to the faintest volume of sound.
and each note of voice could be heard
distinctly
The program opened vita the Dance
of the Nations in which the smaller
children took parts. The first dance,
the Irish folk dance. with Fannabelle
Offutt, Bernadette Stanton, Gilmore
Hamill, and James Pollock. They wore
the typical Irish costume of the land of
Old Erin and gave the dance without
flaw.
The next was the Dutch dance by little
Nell Offutt and Nelson Ofutt. They
both looked as if they had Just come
from Holland, wooden shoes and all.
Miss Nell was seated at the window of
her Dutch home, when her sweetheart
comes along, invites her for walk,
and they dance the dance of their native
Holland and into the hearts of the
audience.
The next was the Japanese dance bv
Adeline Sincell, Thorton Deffinbaugh
and Seymour Offutt. The costumes
and customs in this, as in all the other
scenes. was faithfully carried out, and
the little laps danced through their
part easily and gracefully.
The Spanish dance was the only part
the Dance of the Nations where the
performer danced alone and little
Virginia johnson, in the garb of sunny
Spain, gave an exhibition that many of
the SenorItas might have envied.
The darby cake walk, by Mary Jane
Offutt and Henry McComas was an ex-
cellent exhibition, worthy of much old
er actors.
The Dance of the Nations ended with
an exhibition of the modern American
dances by Miss Douglas Sincell and Mr..
Fossett, of Cumberland. They danced
the foxtrot, hesitation and one-step.
showing the grace and beauty of the
American dance.
The little company of foreigners then
came in with large American flag,
which called to mind the place the
Stars and Stripes occupy at this stage
of the worlds crisis.
The second act opened with beauti-
full tableau of Spring, with Miss Leah
Slncell to represent this season. She
summoned her Spring Girls" with
trumpet call, and Nell McComas, Mary
Sincell, Bessie Hendrickson, Bernadette
Hart, Norine Ault and Mabel Falken-
stein came in, with wreathes of bios
SONS, giving a graceful dance and drill,
while dogwood blossoms were falling
during the scene.
Miss Anna Gender, as Summer. fol-
lowed this scene, and after her came
the Poppy Girls Lois Fraley, Celia
Hart, Helen Hart, Mary West, Martha
West. Martha McComas, Margaret
Sincell and Regina Helbig. Their song
and dance was one of unusual merit.
Next came the Daisy Girls" Evelyn
Cheuvront, Sarah Hayes, Rebecca
Naylor, Mabel Forman. Mary Martin,
Martin, Alice Yelling, Mildred King
and Margaret Selby. Their dance and
drill was very good, and the costumes
worn carried out the idea of the daisy to
perfection.
They were followed by the "Rose
Girls" Virginia Moore, Ruth Lawton,
Ruth Davis, Dorothy Pritchard, Gladys
Smithwick. Margaret Kahl, Rebecca
White, Ara Peddicord, Lillian Sincell,
Nellie Naylor, Virginia Duval, Helen
Little, Ella Helbig and Audrey Tricket.
The Roses gave beautiful exhibition.