Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-01
AUGUSTA LOCALS
"CHEER UP!" IS A
GREAT SUCCESS
MONDAY EVENING
City Hall Is Well Filled
and All Enjoy a Fine
Vaudeville Program
Solo Dances by Little
Miss Louise Brown Of
Boston Feature the
Affair

In right royal fashion was the New
Year welcomed to Augusta, when the
society folk Of the Capital City and
half dozen adjoining towns gathered
for the Cheer Up" at City hall. wit
messed program of most exceptional
vaudeville and danced and sang the
old year out, the New Year in. netting
thereby handsome sum for Red Cross
work.
1t was an affair worthy Of the city
and a credit to the ladies' committee
which has done so much to furnish
Augusta with novel and pleasing char
ity balls and to swell the great sums
that are each year placed to the cred
1t of local charity organizations.
The committee on decorations fairly
outGid themselves in Transforming the
hall which SO readily lends itself to
artistic, effects. There were heavy
banks Of fir boughs and fir trees around
the hall, on the balcony railing and on
the stage. lichtened with festoons OF
pink and touches of cotton and "dia-
mond dust" in realistic stimulation OF
snow Arranged in a rectangle around
the dancing floor We're 6S tables cover
ed with snowy linen and decorated
each with a candalabrum. Around these
tables were seated the dancers and at
them, in the intermission. refreshments
were served by girls Of the Cony high
school.
Interspersed with the ball room
dances were four fancy dancing num-
bcrs Of the highest type and one panto-
mime i'll which Augustus best anna
tours furnished a few minutes of riot
Gus amusement, with such realistic
characterizations Of the spectators at a
rural movie that they convulsed the
audience with gales Of merriment.
The f1rst Of the fancy dances was lie
Carnival. and the solo dancing, Les Pc
tites Gail!ardes. In which Dorothy Ill.,
Joan and Mary Sturtevant Ruth Hazel
wood, Anna Hendee. Ruth Pettingill.
Eleanor Nelson and Dorothy Stone, with
Virginia Odiorne and Irene Goodrich in
the solo parts, won round after round
OF well-deserved applause. Dressed In
| charming white costumes they made a
pretty picture against the green back
ground and their DANCING was absolute
~ professional in its excellence and re-
fected high credit on Mrs. Odiorne and
! MISS Gertrude Moore. who trained them
Louise Brown q Star
The dancing of tiny Louise Brown. the
dainty little Boston dancer. would have
been feature of any bill Her opening
! number was a military dance, the steps
and arrangement virtually her own, and
her costume a most bewitcning modifica-
ton of the Cossack garb. This was foi-
lowed by an exposition of what is re-
garded among professionals as the high
EST expression OF the art of dancing. tbs
ballet or toe dance. at which she exceis.
In this dance she was instructed by the
great master, Alexis kosIoR for MANY
years with the Imperial Ballet of Russia
and by Marie Ware Lawton in the famous
school OF the Outdoor Players at Peter.
boro. y. H.. and She proved credit to
her great teachers. Her closing number
was another of her quaint appropriations.
an eccentric dance, which she terms The
rag "a comedy and acrobatic dance In
which she excelleG Little Louise proved
graceful and pretty and won hearty an
pause and an insistent encore for each
dance.
/ Ihe sole comedy number ~ Coun-
/ tr! Movie" proved d success beyond
the fondest hopes of Director VIM G..
, Bunker and his talented compan,. 10
name the stars is to name the entire
list: MI Bunker, K. X. Boeiwel Ben
edict +. Maher, Charles Downing, Ma
than Weston. Ralph Smith. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harris Woodman. Dauforth Nash.
Warren Nichols, Mrs. Cony Weston.
Frederick Owen. Mr.. and Mrs. Guy p.
Gannett. William Williamson. SIR. am
Mrs. r. r. Lord. Miss Emily Sim are
! Miss Clara Goodwin, the aIiescy days
rion and Frances Eli;nwood Mi..
/ en- Thompson. Miss Lucy lily all o1
! Miss Muriel Holt and Thotrnd reports
ews Costumes. character prices TINS
stage business were lar
extreme and X. RI. rom sio 10 sl-
| syiphIike married 1t this time.