The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-17
1T WAS A JoLLIFIcATIoN.
Italian Pleasure Club Held Iath Annual
Reunion.

For their 18th annual jollifcation
members of the Italian Pleasure club, 10
Gated in the Scampini building on Nortl
Main street, went upstairs last night te
the knights of Columbus hall and there
held high carnival until the peep O. dawn
With them went guests enough to make
up some 20 couples. and all told more
than l50 people whiled away the hours
with dining, speechmaking, singing and
dancing. An efficient corps of decorators
had the hall to themselves in the after
noon, and the transformation they
wrought in the prosaic home of many
lodges was a revelation to those who
were to foregather after nightfall. All
of the old traditions of l. P. c. carnivals
were effectively preserved and the gem
eral committee succeeded admirably in
introducing number of new stunts
never eatalogued in any of the previous
annual gatherings.
The big banquet at o'clock was in
charge of William Daniels, who, day
times, affects the conventional Cream of
Wheat pose with pewter ladle at Jacks
restaurant. Bill had an able crew of
flunkies> running hither and yon at his
beck and the sum total of the hurry and
hustle was service. Service along with
an abundance of well-seasoned edibles
was what the banqueters wanted, and
they got it. Rileys orchestra was pres
ent, and the local color furnished by
Fiddler James and his music makers
must have assisted very materially in
supplying some of the old-time zest of
other Pleasure club gatherings. The mu
sicians discoursed at length of their har
mony through the dinner hour and were
happy afterward in the long program of
dancing.
In the absence of A. H. Fasola, the
club president, who is business getting
somewhere between Dobb's Ferry and
Chicago just now. Peter Merlo, the vice
occupied the chair of honor |
md made the address of welcome as the |
lovers were lifted. After dinner. Mr.. |
Merlo, in his own inimitable fashion,
introduced those of the company who |
lad been chosen to assist in the enter
aiming. DIR. Barr, in a stump speech on
'Moretown Cocktails" was at his best I
md put the diners in excellent fettle for
he flow of wit and oratory that was to
ollow. "Heeling in Ward 81 was the
ubject assigned to John A. Frontini,
nd as a potential candidate for lecturer
n the proposed Thwingsville grange he
vas received with acclaim. George Troup
nterlarded the prose program with a
ocal solo of his own composition. Al
red Gerbetti was there with recitation
nd upon Paul Seampini devolved the
onor of offering the toast to the ladies'
oseph Stumpf was heard in violin ,
olo, and the club quartet, consisting of
fr. Troup, Dante Peduzm and Messrs.
and Frontini We'd with duo
Dnsisting of Vincent Cato and Arman
o Comolli in chanting a number of
eorgia melodies. Jimmie Walker, the
age of Vine street, and Alex Emslie
gnalized the end of the postprandial ex-
rcises, when they sang, Il Want to Be a I
un Dodger." s
President Fasola was still between the 3
erry and the Windy City when the {
ancing began, and the honor of leading 9
he grand march fell to Mr. Merlo. The g
-chestra presented varied program of d
snce numbers, and from l0:30 o'clock {
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trough the east. the terpisochorean dew Il
,ees were in high glee. George Troup
I'd Dante Peduzzi impersonated Efficien- I
: in the roles of floor managers, and P
cry want of the dancers, even to those n
no wanted nothing more than lemon
le, received the personal attention of
at particular committee. n
Credit for the successful issue of the '
lb's yearly festival is due in part to {
e efforts of the executive committee =
ID to Others who gave freely of their p
ne and energy in preparing for the n
pper and its aftermath. The general y
consisted of the following e.
ambers: Duncan J. Mcmillan, Antonio r'
Fasola, Silvio Giudici, James McDon- @
/. Peter Merlo, James Walker and DIR.
f. Barr. te
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