San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
Different Show Will Be
Given Free Each
Night.
A BEAUTY CONTEST
Ample Opportunities to
Spend Money and
Have Fun.

n comprehensive prOsTdhi VI iiee
entertainment will feature the Elks'
fourth annual carnival, which will
open Monday night at the Elks' Club,
on Pecan street, and continue
throughout the week. A different show
will be given each night on the sew
enth floor of carnival headquarters
by professional entertainers. Ar
rangements have been made for three
performances of each show, the first
at s, the second at and the third at
10 o'clock.
A big section of the seventh floor
has been roped off, stage built and
seats provided for the hundreds OF
visitors who will witness the free at
fractions while making the rounds of
the carnival. Here's the program Of
shows for the week by nights:
Monday-Kotals Arabian Troupe,
featuring Arabian music and dancing
and the champion whirling dervish.
Tuesday-Jean Reyes Musical Re
vuette, late of the Manhattan Cafe,
Tampico. Mexico. .
Wednesday-Billie Ward and his
Hawaiian Musicians, who will enter
tain with both instrumental and vo-
cal music.
Thursday - Assembled vaudeville
acts, including Thurman, the car
toonist; Falk, in slack wire exhibit
tons and quartet.
Friday-Mrs. Seay and her juve-
nile entertainers. The ages of those
who will take part are from ) to 10
years.
Saturday-Miss Russell Hughes and
her company. in a dancing revue.
According to {. f. Smeltz, chair
man of the carnival entertainment
committee, the program of free at
fractions is the most elaborate ever
attempted for such an affair.
A Beauty Contest.
But there will be ample opportunity
foe pleasure seekers to spend their
money during carnival week. On five
floors of the Elks' Club festivities
will be in full swing. Exhibits and
booths of every description will be
manned by committees OF Efks who
will strive diligently to interest visi-
tors in their wares.
The bathing beauty revue and swim
ming contests in the basement pool
promises TO be one OF the big draw
ing cards of the week. Three shows
will he given nightly and it is ex-
pected that the water nymphs will
play to capacity houses at every per-
Torrance
Another feature Of city-wide in
terest is the contest being conducted
to determine the most popular girl.
To date number of stores and or
CARNATIONS have entered good look
ers," although the affair will not Of
ficially open until Monday. Adolph
Dugosh, chairman of this event, is an
ticipating n deluge of fair entrants on
the opening day. Decision as to the
outcome of the friendly rivalry be-
tween champions of members OF rhc
fair sex will be announced next
Thursday night.
Will Have Street Parade.
The Elks Club has assumed a fes-
tive appearance for carnival week.
Purple and white festooning and 9TH
err decorations have been placed with
lavish hand. Elaborate exhibits
are being installed by merchants and
manufacturers on the ground floor,
and on the second and seventh floors
booths for the many attractions are
being placed. The roof, where the St.
Cecilia Orchestra will hold forth, has
been made ready for dancers. =
Jack Simms, chairman of the gem
eral carnival committee, who has had
long experience in the arrangement of
such entertainments, declared Satur-
day that the 1923 carnival will be
by far the best ever given in SanpAn-
tonic. He pointed out that the free
shows. alone, make the affair notnble,
in addition to the many other fea-
lures of interest that the week holds
in store for the public.
Ushering in the six days of fun
making, a street parade will be given
Monday afternoon, starting on its cir
Gle of the business district ut 4 80
o'clock. Arrangements for the pro-
cession have been made by COM
mittee headed by Fire Chief A. j..
Goetz.