The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-28
BROTHER ELKS PLAY HOSTS ID
 FA|RBANKSAHS
PERMANENT AND DANCE GIVEN BY LOCAL ELKS
 HUGE SUCCESS.

of the Elks lodge now residing il Fairbanks to hold a blowout" AUo it was all of that from the word go" using a slangy expression, It., ion that, were the B. P. 0. E. OrAa. nized into a lodge here, they would be among the best entertainers ol the city as an organization.
 The dance started at 9 o'clock. Only about 100 couples of people were in attendance, owing to pro- arranged plans. And from the time the dance started until the Homo. Sweet Home" was played, at ? o'clock, gayety reigned supreme. T. is the hope of most of those who were in attendance at the aHaia that it can be made an annual from this time forth.
 The two chief features of the affair were the program and tie gowns worn by the ladies in a. tendance The lunch, however served in the banquet room at EH- gle hall, should not be made sec onda1y consideration, nor should the punch and lemonade. served from high cakes of ice in the foycl of the hall, where all could refres1 themselves.
 Hon. F. B. Collins. of Fox, speak CT of the Alaska house of reprg scntatives and a prominent Elk n his home lodge, was master of cere- monies. Opening the program Mr. Collins gave the history of the lodgs from it's conception, concluding by telling of the spirit which had in duCed the assembled brothers, al far from their home lodges, to gi.r such an entertainment.
 Other numbers on the program were interspersed with dances, ta, next rendered being a story ol George and Martha Washington, told by George W. Pennington AuG proving that he is a person Of vivid imagination MT. Pennington placed George and Martha as Auam and Eve in the Panama valley, de scribing the latter as the Garden of Eden, and showing how they named all the trees, animals ana irI, r, T.; here.
 The next number was a vocal selection, encored, rendered by Ms George A. Coleman Always ia. vorite with Fairbanks music lovers Mrs. Coleman was never in bette. voice. She was accompanied by Miss Frances Boelen on the piano
 \ "Serpentine' dance under spot light, done by Mrs. A. J. Godshc was roundly applauded. In intro. ducing Mrs. Godske Master of Cere- monies Collins stated that the dallc- CT was second to none, unless It be such topnotchers as Mrs. Vernon Castle and others of her class, and Mrs. GOdske's dancing did not bejic his words.
 The music lovers present were next afforded the opportunity O. hearing Miss Frances Boelen play She rendered two very difficult SC lections on the piano, showing by her playing the excellent results of her splendid training al Americ d $ foremost institution of music, the New ErgldI,d Conservatory, at Bos- ton, Mass.
 Next came the Il o'clock toast It was very impressive in that it is a part of the ritual of the order and an incident in the ritual never overlooked at any Elk meeting, at exactly the hour of II. At ttat hour all of the lights of the haIi were put out and, with the eXcep- tion of MT Collins, the Brother Elks present formed a circle. Aud when the punch was passed around they drank the famous Elk toast: Heres to our absent brothcrs Their faults are writ upon the sands of time; their virtues on tablets of love and memory" They then sang Aud Lang Syne."
 Last on the program, but certain ly not least, particularly with those who love good dancing, was the tango exhibition given by Captain George Green and Mrs. Leon hel- lum. After they had gone through the first of a number of difficult and intricate steps and had re- tired from the floor, they were com pelled to return, so insisten was the applause Both showed by the quality of their dancing that they have mastered most of the new and difficult steps of upto-date dances
 The Elks organization in Fair banks, really not an organization, but a party of Hello Bills" which has shown that it can get together on occasion and give an entertain ment such as are given by lodges of the order Outside and for which they are justly famous. is composed of A members. Many of them were not present last Tuesday night, but they were undoubtedly there" iu spirit, particularly when the tilnr for the toast to the absent mem