Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 4 | Little Folks Dance for the Red Cross

LITTLE FOLKS DANCE FOR THE RED CROSS Unique Entertainment Is Given By Children at the Ladies' Lit-raxy Lit-raxy Club. The evening of song and dance at the Ladies' Literary olub last night under tho auspices of the entertainment committee com-mittee of the club was one of the first of the many benefits for the Red Cross fund and was a financial as well as an artistic success, and the Literary club, tlie children and the musical artists who gave of their talent, wore enabled to make a substantial contribution to tho ciupe so near to every loyal American heart. Children, always so unaffected and graceful, were particularly so in their exquisite costumes designed by .Mrs. F. . Knickerbocker. Each dance, given liv pupils from Miss Denise Karrick 's classes, under Miss Karriek 's direction, was differently costumed and the elfish children danced with dustcap and broom or executed the more difficult steps of the gavotte or minuet in character. Mrs. Theodore Best appeared to splendid splen-did advantage in two dainty solo numbers, num-bers, "Will O' the Wisp," by Charles Gilbert Spross. and "The Birth of Morn,'' by Francis Leoni. j Mrs. Ernest Ashton Smith gave a fine! rendition of ' The Gavotte" from ! "Million," by Thomas. Mrs. P. 0. Perkins was the accompanist for both. 1 The evening closed with a solo dance by the talented little dancer, Adelaide Ackerman, who in responding to the encore appeared draped in Old Glory, while a largo flag, held by two young Americans, made a background for the entire company, who returned to the stage waving tiny American flags and sang "The Star Spangled Banner." Today at the matinee, designed for Fchool children, the same numbers will be repeated, with the addition of a surprise sur-prise number bv little Miss Snow, and a humorous reading by Miss Ruby Chad-wick, Chad-wick, called "Wee MacGregor." ' a number num-ber especially adapted for children.