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Victorian Weekend.

Herald & Lantern 5 October '83

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CAPE MAY - The most popular feature of this Historic Landmark City’s Victorian Weekend in October has always been the self -guided tour of the 19th Century houses. This year will be no exception. An exciting group of both public and private structures will be no exception. An exciting group of both public and private structures will be open Saturday, and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featuring different, houses both days, the tour is the centerpiece of" a crowded calendar of events during the four day festival. -Some of the houses have never, before been open to the public. The Seetoo’s delightful; a late Victorian single family house with gardens front and back'; *' the turn of the century Manor House, built in the American shingle stylewith a wide and welcoming front porch and the completely reconstructed merrry widow with a huge castellated turret and an extravagant pain scheme. OLD FAVORITES of the tour include the nationally publicized Mainstay Inn, built in 1872 as a gambling club; the 16 room Physick House (1881) that has been restored as a Victorian museum; the Abbey (1869), with its intricately decorated Gothic Revival

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Holiday House of the Girls’ Friendly Society with its picturesque chapel and

1912 pump organ. Many other private homes and guest cottages will also be

open to provide at least 10 structures on both days of the tour.

PHYSICK HOUSE — Restored 16-room cottage at 1048 Washington St., Cape May, designed by famed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness in 1881, will be included in the house tours for Victorian Weekend. It now serves as the etty’s Victorian Museum, and the grounds are the headquarters for the Mid-AUantic Center for the Arts.

History Of Dance Recalled

CAPE MAY - The South Street Dance Co., Philadelphia’s Modern Dance Repertory Co., will bring an unusual multfmedia dance concert to the city as part of the Victorian Weekend festivities. Sunday at 8. in Convention Hall, the Co., will present “Victorian Rebels and Modem Dance Pioneers”, an evening of dances from Isadora Duncan to the present. Tickets are available at the door. The concert will end in time for anyone wishing to make the stained glass tour at 10 p.m. The concert shows how, beginning at the turn of the century with dancers such as Isadora Duncan, artists rebelled against the stricaYa

tures of Victorian society and found freedom of expression through a new “Modern Dance”. Featured will be Isadora Duncan’s solos and Doris Humprey’s masterpiece. “Day on Earth" Featured dancers include Evelyn Shepard, who has performed internationally in solo concerts with the Pauline Koner Dance Consort, and Tom Brown, a well-known reconstruclor of classics of Modern Dance, who teaches and performs in New York. Artistic Director Ellen Forman and Ms. Shepard have taught in Cape May for the past two summers for the dance company’s Dance by the sea program. This dance concert is only one of many events featured during Cape May’s Victorian Weekend, Oct. 7 through 10, sponsored by the Mid-AUantic Center for the Arts < MAC).

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