Show ri A L GREAT SUCCESS The LOBg Anticipated Paper Carnival Proves a Grand Beautiful and Delightful Affair Tbe Largest Audience Ever Assembled ID the Opera BODe Witnesses the Grand Pageant The Minuet de la Conr Goes Off Smoothly and is Received With General Favor The task of pleasing twelve hundred i persons in a single evenings entertainment i entertain-ment i one that but few attempt and still fewer accomplish For this reason the successof an affair like the Grand Paper Carnival of last evening all the more worthy of the greatest efforts of those interested and all the wore creditable credit-able when attained To say that last nights audience was pleased is probably putting it too mild for there were certainly cer-tainly many present who were perfectly enraptured over the beauty pomp and grandeur displayed pmp Long before the hour for opening the doors the spacious lobbies of the house were jammed with people and finally when the portals moved out the seats aisles and passages were filled with a rapidity that spoke volumes of nappy anticipation on the part of spectators Never before since the Opera House frt opened its doors has so largn an assem binge gathered within its walls and never before in this city has there ben seen a concdUrse including so much af f the wealth culture and beauty of our society world All the proscenium box and the stalls were filled with prominent people peo-ple who with the rest of the audience tendered then hearty approbation of the evenings entertainment There was a somewhat tedious wail before the curtain went up on the grand march but this was all explained when the audience realized the amount of dressing that had t be done for the affair A the grand pageant led of from the back of the stage by George and Martha Washington Lieutenant Shat tuck and Mrs G nry came info ful view of the audience it was greeted with murmurs of approval and surprise The leading couple were followed by tbe cavaliers of the minuet and the fol lowing ladies and gontlemen in costume Earl of Leiqester rMr Fred Simons Marie Antoinette Mies Belle Mare AntoinetteMiss Ble Anderson Queen of Hearts Mrs Frank Shelton Knave of Hearts Lieutenant Dentler The Three Little MaidsMiss Blanche Kimball as Yam Yum Miss Sadler Peep Bo Miss Potter Pith Sing si Sinf 61 Nanki Poo Lieutenant Tuggart Musio Miss Grace Young Astronomy Mrs Oliver Znne Harvest Miss Tulle Phillips Phiips Painting Miss Phillips Phiip Art Miss Minnie Kimball < Esthetic Maiden Miss Edna Kimball Pack of CardsMiss Belle Quimby Mephistopheles Miss Jennie Winship Boy and Girl of Olden Times Miss Daisy Colton Master Roy Hampton Milkmaids Miss Jennie Carney and Miss Mis Solomon MilkmanMr Wm Brown > 11 Sailor Mr Dairid Gregg Fisher Maiden Miss Solomon Oscar Wilde Frank Reno Gypsy Miss Stevenson Four Seasons Miss May Godbe autumn Miss Boyle winter Miss Thompson spring Miss Zane summer Snow Miss May Fare The Bat Miss Marie Nason Moss Bose Miss Alice Uaybould Peony Miss Maggie Miles Magie Sunflowers Miss Mary Woodward Miss Bella Buff Wowar Marguerite Miss Bertha Wagoner Flora Miss Jlooklidge Flower Girls Misses Elvis Goibe Minnie fluff Lutie McMillan etc Gbe Titania Queen of the Faries Miss Quimby General Tom Thumb Master Percy Brown Per I Mrs TomThnmb Florence Grant Besides these there was a bevy of pretty little girls in Fairy costumes o many other wellsustained characters I The Home of the Fairies was a very I I t beautiful tableau followed by some 1 charming exercises bv the little Fairies I and finally came the Republican Court a tableau formed by the ladies and gen tlemen of the Minuet the Three Little Maids Nanki Poo and others From this the Minuet dancers lead off in the following order the first twp sets forming on either side in front of the stalls and the third set taking the front center First Set George Brastow and Miss Woodward Wood-ward Mr Wilkes and Mss Lawrence Mr Hewlett and Miss Sprague Dr Hall and Hal Miss Hempstead Second SetMr Pavey and Miss Wilkes Wikes Mr Wallace and Miss Harknoss Mr Smith and Miss Mercy Walker Mr hislett and Miss Wagener Third SetMr Caine and Miss Barnes Mr Van Horn and Miss Wallace Ms McKay MissWalao and Mss James Mr Bolivar MoKy andMiss Florence Hempstead The minuet was danced with ease and grace and received many warm compli ments The costumes of the participants I were all charming and showed to excellent ex-cellent advantage under the brilliant brlat lights rftJtfr t The exhibition being oyer general l dancing a begun and with an intermission inter-mission for suppbr was kept up until an I cary hour this morning |