The Robesonian., 1918-04-08
SOCIETY IN VAUDEVILLE.
Local Talent Play Delighted Capacity
Audience at Opera House-S1O7.5O
Realized for Red Cross.

healiZed for Red Cross.
When Society" went "into Vaude-
ville' at the opera house Friday eve
nlng Tor the benefit of the Red Cross. |
packed house went into ecstatcies.
A hodgepodge it was to delight the
eye and "chase dull care away" 1T
was to laugh and admire and be glad,
and at the spectacular finale to feel
a. patriotic thrill and consuming de-
sire to help bring victory to the flags
OF the Allies grouped upon the stage
=, The curtain rose upon the 81. B.
Young company of Youth and Beau
ty,, and these captured the audience
with the latest song hits, paired as
follows: Miss Elizabeth Wishart and
Mr.. Robert Proctor; Miss Viola Jen-
kins and Mr. Adrain Britt; Miss Ma
rie Thompson and Mr.. J. Pope Steph-
ems; Miss Sadie Rae Pope and Mr..
Robert Mcintyre; Miss Miriam Vein
stein and Mr.. Charles P. McAllster;
Miss Myrtle Pope and Mr.. Abner
Nash; Miss George Whitfield and Mr..
Ed Rancke; Miss Carrie Mae Hedge
peth and Mr.. J Robert Prevatt.
The audience had its moneys worth
right there, and every single stunt
after that also was worth the price.
Miss Sarah Rebecca Carlyle tickled
the audience with "Bits of Humor
from Here and There" Followed the
Hawaiian septette with their Gems
from the South Sea Isle," these being
wonderfully arrayed for the part:
Misses Lula Norment, Vista Thomp-
son, Elsie Thompson, Margaret Nash,
Carolyn Webb, Drina Hedgepeth and
Evalina Beckwith While these young
ladies held the boards one was waited
away to far-off cline, and you didn't
care ii you never came back, if so be
they would still lull you with the soft
cadence of their songs and the rhythm
of their movements.
"a Pair of Lunatics," in which Miss
Hazel Carlyle and Mr.. Frank Hollo-
way held the stage while the audience
held its sides, severally and collective
| ly, was scream. If the true purpose
of acting be to "hold the mirror uI
. to nature as you'll agree, then the
j acting of that "pair" was the last
word. They came right up to, but
never overstepped by so much as {
hairs breadth, the fine line that di
vides the false from the true. Yor
Mrs. Irene Mcleod Nash, under
whose direction the whole splendid en-
: tertainment was given and who's.
skill was reflected in the excellenc.
of all, next delighted the audience
!, with her "Talk and Talk Songs" TIL,
! audience showed it's appreciation b!
! greeting her first appearance upon
+ the stage with applause, and ever!
' moment of her stay brought fresh de
= light.
= + Little Miss Maitland Thompson il
= her interpretative dancing-the audi
: ence held it's breath and sighed at tn
: last for more. Graceful little sylpl
= she is. she floated upo nthe air, sh
.. danced for the very joy of dancing
~ she skipped like happy child at play
: she bent and swayed like willow il
, the wind; she crouched with cloude
- brow as from some threatening dan
ger, and, carefree again, once NOR
she was one with the circumambien
i air. 1t was the poetry of motion.
:, In the grand finale, care You Pa
q triotic," all that have been mentione
,. were grouped, and these others march
/ ed out, some bearing flags of the Al
E. lied nations, as follows: England
Miss Anna Neal Fuller; France-Mis
/ Agnes Mclean; Italy-Miss Kathryl
4 Beaman; Belgium Margie Rus
sell; United States-Miss Evelyl