{"id":1898,"date":"2015-03-05T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:47:41","slug":"1886-03-12-opera-house-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/1886-03-12-opera-house-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"1886-03-12: Opera House Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dance at the Opera House on Friday night last, was well attended by the young ladies and gentlemen of the town who engage in tripping the light, fantastic toe. The following is a list of the dancers, and the characters represented by each: Mr. <strong>Jim NEELY<\/strong> represented Henry of Navarre; Miss <strong>Irene McNEAL<\/strong>, Marie Stuart; Miss <strong>Frank SMITH<\/strong>, a gypsy maiden; Miss<strong> Mary TOTTEN<\/strong>, a Greek lady; Mr. <strong>M. MOORE<\/strong>, Washington; Mr. <strong>John JONES<\/strong>, Commodore Jones; Miss <strong>Mary W. FENTRESS<\/strong>, Quees Isabel; Miss <strong>Jennie McNEIL<\/strong>, a Spanish lady; Mr. <strong>Luther<\/strong>, an English cavalier; Mr. <strong>Fusch<\/strong>, a dude; Miss <strong>Mary TATE<\/strong> and Miss <strong>Emma YOUNG<\/strong>, Fun and Folly; Mr. <strong>Tom SMITH<\/strong>, Francis Duke of Guise; Miss <strong>Minnie NEELY<\/strong>, a Dresden Sheppardess; Miss <strong>Mary PRICE<\/strong>, as Simplicity; Messrs<strong> John BILLS<\/strong> and <strong>M. TATE<\/strong>, sailors; Mr. <strong>R. JONES<\/strong>, the Army; Miss <strong>Mary BILLS<\/strong>, a sorceress; Mr. <strong>McNeal BOND<\/strong>, a Spanish gentleman; Miss <strong>Lizzie FENTRESS<\/strong>, a Tyrolese maid; Mr. <strong>Stonewall BLACK<\/strong>, a French tronbadour; Miss <strong>Louis<\/strong>, a Japanese lady; Miss <strong>Lizzie HARDAWAY<\/strong>, Dewdrop; Miss <strong>Julia UPSHAW<\/strong>, Columbia; Mr. <strong>Tate YOUNG<\/strong>, a king&#8217;s jester; Mr. <strong>William BOYD<\/strong>, a Chinese; and Mr. <strong>Ed JONES<\/strong>, Uncle Sam. Everything passed off pleasantly and all seemed to enjoy themselves very much. The costumes of each were fit representations of the characters represented. The ladies were perfectly lovely &#8211; almost angelix in their beautiful costumes, and the gentelmen &#8211; well; they looked like ordinary mortals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1886-03-12\/ed-1\/seq-3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 12 March 1886, Page 3.<\/em><\/a> Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dance at the Opera House on Friday night last, was well attended by the young ladies and gentlemen of the town who engage in tripping the light, fantastic toe. The following is a list of the dancers, and the characters represented by each: Mr. Jim NEELY represented Henry of Navarre; Miss Irene McNEAL, Marie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3240],"tags":[3458,3461,3464,3462,3468,3463,3453,3465,3469,3452,3460,652,3454,3451,700,3423,3426,3449,3457,3459,3455,3450,3466,3456,3467],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3240","tag-bills-john","tag-bills-mary","tag-black-stonewall","tag-bond-mcneal","tag-boyd-william","tag-fentress-lizzie","tag-fentress-mary-w","tag-hardaway-lizzie","tag-jones-ed","tag-jones-john","tag-jones-r","tag-mcneal-irene","tag-mcneil-jennie","tag-moore-m","tag-neely-jim","tag-neely-minnie","tag-price-mary","tag-smith-frank","tag-smith-tom","tag-tate-m","tag-tate-mary","tag-totten-mary","tag-upshaw-julia","tag-young-emma","tag-young-tate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}