The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-11
Miss S|Ocum's Closing
 Reception At Casino
Annual Event is Attended by Audience That Taxes Capa
 city of Large Important Meeting of Elizabeth Seton Guild This Evening Fairfield County suffra- gists Meet.

The Casino on State street was filled to it's capacity, even the standing room being taken, at the closing reception of Miss Benita V. Slocum's School for Dancing, this afternoon. This is an annual event that is always looked forward to with great anticipation by the children that take part and also by the grownups that are privileged to attend. Miss Slocums work is all ways of the highest standard and her pupils take the place in this city of the Morgan Dancers of New York or those of 1sadora Duncan. Each year distinct progress is noted and is exem- plified in a poetic, artistic conception original with Miss Slocum, and inter preted by her pupils in classical danc- ing.
 For the basic thought this year Miss Slocum took the story of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and has carried on the story from where Browning left off. She called t Pipe Them Back Again. and the idea is that when the townspeople could forget self and were willing D give up their gold to the Piper the children could come back. There is a patriotic meaning underlying the story. To Pipe Them Back Again means the bringing back of our boys who are fighting so bravely on the ether side and the giving of the gold to ransom the children means the money we pour out for Liberty Bonds.
 In her story when the children are taken into the magic mountain by the piper a little lame boy is left outside because he has not been able to keep~up with the others. The set ting for the story was the Fairy Gar den inside the mountain where the children lived in the trees with the birds.
 Through the garden passes the pro- cession of the thought forms of the sorrowing mothers mourning the chil- dren.
 In order that the children may not srieve for their earth joys and their parents they are entertained by the Fairy Folk All these prove of no avail and finally they try playing earth games but this does not sat isfy and finally they pass sadly through the magic gate to try and find their earth clothes.
 The little lame boy, beautifully DOT | trayed by Miss Geneva Wilson, then enters the garden to find the Piper who was very well played by George Foster. The lame boy brings the message from the townspeople to the Piper to the effect that they are will | ing to give up their gold to get the children back. The boy is charmed with the magic garden and wishes to play with the children. The Piper bids him go through the Magic gate and when he returns his lameness IS healed and he is clad in shimmering garments of fairy silk.
 The bringing of the gold is depict ed in a beautiful dance after which the Piper pipes the little folk home again, restoring them to their parents. After he has done this he returns sad and lonely to the magic garden. The little lame boy remembers the Piper and in order to assuage his loneliness goes back to him to comfort him.
 At the conclusion of this part of the program there was very pretty ceremony. The member of the class ical dancing classes wishing to give to Miss Slocum something that should suitably express their love and ad- miration had purchased a replica of Chapu's famous statue of Joan of Arc that it is in Luxembourg. This was standing at one side of the setting for the classical dancing. It was yelled with the French and American flags, and was presented to Miss Slocum on behalf of the class by Miss Dorothy Lyon. At her signal it was unveiled by Miss Irene Conner and Miss Flor ence Davidson. Following Miss Slo- curn's acceptance there was a patri- otic finale by eight of the class, four representing France and four America and as a finale forming into a Red
 Cross. It was one of the loveliest
 and most artistic closing receptions that Miss Slocum has yet held and she should be proud of the achievement.
 SpeidePs orchestra furnished the
 music for the dancing under the
 capable direction of Miss Grace N.
 Dudley who was at the piano. The
 music had been selected by Miss Dud-
 ley with especial care and it was sim
 gularly appropriate for the interpreta- tive work.
 The children who appeared in the different dances were: Village Chil-
 dren, Miss Benita V, Belden, Miss
 Gertrude Baptist, Miss Lillian Buck,
 Miss Louise Conner, Miss Violet Curtis,
 Miss Mary Donley, Miss Margaret
 Drake, Miss Dorothy French, Miss
 Barbara Goodsel1, Miss Marion
 Hodges, Miss Katherine Hunt. Miss Beatrice Katz, Miss Marian Knight
 Miss Beatrice Levin, Miss Jeane Nc l Neil, Miss Constace O'Brten, Miss
 Dorothy Peck, Miss Adele Pyle, Miss ! Rosalind Rennie, Miss Edith Rose l Miss Eileen Renz, Miss Edith Smith Miss Helen Sachs, Miss Muriel ! Schwartz Miss Selena Schwartz, Miss
 Florence and Miss Mollie Trecartin l Miss Ruth TreadweIl, Miss Susar . Weeks, Miss Harriet Wills and Mis-; Edith Youngerman.
 } Borrowing Mothers: Miss Eva Don
 ming, Miss Isabelle Plllans, Mis-:
 Gladys Borstelman, Miss Anita Green
 baum, Miss Beatrice Belden, Mis- Cora Anderson, Miss Dorothy Lyon f Miss Hedwig Schweizer' Miss Helen' l PeIl and Miss Sally LaVery-
 3 Lest the children grow weary ana e remembrance of their earth relations ? come to make them uneasy the Pipe r calls all the Fairy folks to entertain P them. With the first call come tn e Wind Fays, Miss Julia Adams, Mis- f l EIizaheth BulkIey, Miss Mario1 Benchley, Miss Irene Conner. Mis-