The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-19
PERHAPS TWAS THE
BEST YES, 1T
WAS THE BEST
The Best Annual Banquet Held By the
Italian Pleasure Club, Beginning in
Early Evening and Continuing
Well Let the Participants
Tell You.

Tell You.
Ten wears of club life, q decade of con
structive efforts for the upbuilding OF {
successful association of young men
withal an unbroken period of activity
along social and other lines, were cele
brated last evening when members ant
guests OF the Italian Pleasure club as
sembled in the Knights of Columbus hal
for the clubs annual banquet, gambo
and dance. Measured by as many differ
ent standards as there are banquets
dances and other jollifidations TO be
found on the records of the club, for each
yearly event has had flavor of its own
last nights gathering was the most sue
cessful in the history of the |. p. G.
Besides the moving spirits in the club,
the stay-at-homes, or the faithful 46, as
the active members prefer to be num-
bered, there We're present several former
members whose quest OF fame, honor and
the elusive simoleon has led them out be-
! vond the bounds of their home town.
| Which is forgetting to mention that each
member grasped the opportunity to in
vite a guest. Homage was paid to a
number of II. p. C.s" who are so far
away from home that their presence last
night was impossible. Nevertheless it
was truly representative gathering of
the stock that has infused life and en-.
ergy and animation into the club in the
10 fourishing years of it's lusty young
existence. The hall was most attractive
ly decorated, thanks TO the te-o'-nights
pondering and meditation of the head
decorator, Dele Merlo, who must have
captained very capable crew of assist
ant decorators, for the appearance of the
hall was unlike any of the other interior
arrangements ever attempted by TIL G
club
A coterie of Italian housewives had
charge of the dinner and their handling
of this phase of the annual get together
was beyond criticism. Here is the menu:
Antipasti; queen olives, celery, tomatoes,
cucumbers, salame misto, antipasto in
scatole, acciughe, sardines; yitello tonne;
consomme ALA parisenne; giardinera
ALA bolognese: pesce ALA genovese, puree
di patate; pollastro ALA cacciatora; vi |
tello arrosto, insalata all Itaiana: des- |
sert, gruviera, ice cream, dolci, frutta,
cafe noir
After the banquet came the customary I
post prandial exercises with Just enough I
vaudeville interlarded to keep the toast |
master, A. III. Fasola. who in everyday I
life i the president of the /. P. c.. look.
ing three ways for the hook. Nearly
every member of the club and Others who /
only aspire to be members had something
to do In the entertainment. IF mem
ber was overlooked. it wasn't really an
oversight and the vaudeville committee
said so i'm so many words. II was be-
'ause he was too lame to dance, too
loarse to sing or too far from the punch
bowl to whistle. No one who made the
lightest pretext to being talented was
llghted. The only serious feature of
he afterdinner exercises was the presi-
lent's address of welcome and then all
vas merriment. Clint. Merlo gave a
rayon study in Black and J. 2. Frontini
elated some OF his personal touch" ex-
'eriences with Garry Herman in New
Fork last fall.
Other numbers followed in such dizzy {
uceession that it was absolutely impos-
ible to register them all, but out of the !
laze the following contributions were t
leaned: Song, Il Fell Into the Fountain
t Youth" Joseph Merlo; "The Man
Who Locks Up the Town" J. W.
tumpf; why Wear a Wrist Watch
:. L. Banchi; "The 1915 Seoppa Cham
ionship," w. r. Marion; solo, I'm :,
light Clerk at the Grave Yard" s. H,
iudici; dancing skit, DIR. O. E. BARR =
uet, ''You Made Me What | AM" d.
IcAIillan and A. S. Usher. Daring the ="
rogram regrets were expressed over the = =
bsence of Leslie Wright, s. Milne, i
Gorge Stewart, Henry Watkins and '
ON Marion. \
Orchestral interludes added to the !"
iiety of the program and it was wear
e well on toward 10 o'clock before the
lncing began. At midnight dainty N
Iffet luncheon was served and at the n,
reshold of the new day most of those 4,
no paused in the terpsichorean pastime II
ng enough to join in the refreshments IN
ere ready to resume their dancing. n
Members of the general committee in q
lded: A. II. Fasola, president; Peter eI
erlo, vice president; Alfred Gerbett, II
cretary; Joseph Merlo, treasurer; Dan ~
keefe James Mcdonald, Vincent Cat a,
Armando Comolli. As previously nr
lispered, d. Merlo had charge of the in
corating committee, and the invitation x,
consisted of John Frontini, at
lrio Reffi and Henry Fasola. Duncan
MILAN, George Bud" Troup, William
Inc and Robert Wright made up the
nee committee. III
Mrs A. Mochetti catered for the din W
r and her way of serving the several :" "a
lrses was the subject of many favor ~ ~
le comments. ~