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Show 256 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER Come in a costume, an Old favorite gown; Be a famed character; Dress like a clown. Don a folk outfit or Suit debonair; Come as a cowboy or Princess so fair. Choose any costume, and Please by our guest. Give us your answer; we'll Greet you with zest. Attendees offered a brilliant display of Colorado's history. They came dressed as frontier barristers, eastern and western Indians, George and Martha Washington. Two wore night gowns and others sported various American period costumes. There was a well-groomed but groomless bride, assorted Arab sheiks, sahibs, sorcerors, a mountainous football player, assort ed orientals, a cop with a round bowler hat and double row of buttons, and various military personages with decorative small arms. Madelyn and Harold wore kimonos they had acquired in Japan. Madelyn's costume was a beautiful silk brocade with magnificent obi. Madelyn made careful seating arrangements; no cocktails were served. Everyone joined to sing the Centennial Song (Colorado became a state in 1876 and so was called the Centennial State). A friend sang the "Ballad of Baby Doe." Along with the Denver Livestock Show, the Denver Symphony concert, and performances at Redrock, the party was a leading event of the centennial year. Madelyn's friend Catherine Dittman wrote: By now you must realize how much pleasure you gave per haps more than two hundred people, for you released at least one extra person in each one of us, and we shall not see each other in just the same old way again. You touched us with magic." |
