Show A CRAW BAIL BALL oden ogden society appears in full fall dress at the opera bouse house the winter season wag was opened in all its gaiety last evening at the grand opera llonas by the initial dance in augu rated by bowes a and ree d koch A floor as smooth as rises glass re tided to the touch of 0 liht light and da dainty nty feet ats stage manager harris bad had fitted up a palace at the rear a beauty one that charmed and pleased the senses through ita its harmony with the great oc moccasin occa eim flowers bloomed in the alcoves created by the bo boxes X es and hanging curtains curt alne exquisitely arranged by the old florint flori pt joseph tyrrell who also furnished the blossoms bloe goms and the button aires the orchestra larger than usual was seated at the rear of the stage and professor thornburg occupied a box from which bis his calling was distinctly heard beird the floor was comfortably filled with dancers but to the shame of society be it said there was not half the people one would have expected to eee see on such an occasion as this among those who were conspicuous for their absence were well let it be eaid said that they were watching politics politic were ont out of town or were unable to attend without any derogatory inferences it can truly be raid paid that the enterprise shown by the management in putting in a maple floor containing over superficial feet at an ex penso pease of 0 over 1700 merited a better support than was riven to it last evening fro from m the demands made in times past one would have thought that the floor and even the entire balcony and an dother other seats would not have held the dancers and the spectators there is no question as to the ball beig being brilliant and gay the floor and building was highly illuminated a and nd a hundred gems flashed their brilliancy as an the dancers moved to and froin fro in graco graceful ful attitudes yet there seemed tobe to ba lacking that feeling of comfort that follows a ball which it has proven a success in all its phases phases soc socially ally if it was a success and financially eta I 1 it was not a failure but simply a it little t dic iss appointment the society a column of 0 sunday will con contain a fu fuller ler account of this the opening event of a promising social season |