Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
ing during the week and at the Wednes'
day and Saturday matinees
The Several Villages.

The Several Villages.
To the west of the stage is the English
village, with its garden Of bright hued flow
ers, cottages and green fields in the back
ground. Next is the Philippine village, pre-
senting a typical scene in those PARKWAY
islands of the Pacific. There is a bamboo
shack in the foreground, mounted on stills.
while beyond is a jungle scene, the same
that was used at the famous Taft dinner,
and was SO highly praised by those who
had been to the distant islands.
Hawaii comes next. with it's quaint VII
lage and shacks. There is a Hawaiian
lake, with a scene of tropic grandeur in
the distance, including the tall sentry palm
trees.
"A dream of Japan" was the way Wis
itor described the Japanese village with its
picturesque temple, quaint tea garden,
which Is such feature of JAP land, its
blue skies and pretty flowers and shrub
berry.
Perhaps one of the most realistic presen-
tations in the vast auditorium is the Indian
village. Towering mountains surround
typical picture of the far west, their sides
and submits being covered with cloak
of blue mist, which seems to melt into the
azure sky above. There are grim and dizzy
canyons while nesting in the valley far
below is village of Indian tepees with
gray columns of smoke curling lazily up
ward from them. There are barren rocks
and poetical little stream ripping through
the valley.
The old country store is the next feature.
Beyond it is comfortable-looking farm
house, with a bic water mill nearby
and a farm yard in the background.
Scheme of Illumination.
The scheme of illumination is said to be
almost perfect while the sky pictures in
the several large paintings blend prettily
with the blue sky line above. The paint
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fey of the Beiasco Theater.
The cloak room, just outside the main
entrance of the hall. will be fitted up
with from 300 to 400 hat boxes, under
the supervision of Maj. James E. Bell
The attendants will be letter carriers
most of whom are members of the Ma
sonic fraternity. The Office of Chairman
Noyes is just east of the cloak room,
while the counting room of the finance
board is to the west
Tickets for the Ball.
Announcement was made by the board OF
control that the tickets for the ball tomor-
row evening would be 81. The general ad
mission will be 80 cents. All the coupons
on the season tickets or any number OF
them may be used for individual admis-
sions on sny evening. Monday night in
Guided
Chairman Thomas c. Moves has called
meeting of the general committee at Con-
vention Hall for noon tomorrow, and urges
that all members attend.
Room Handsomely Decorated.
The Armory Hall, in which the smokers
will be held every evening during the week.
has been handsomely decorated with ar
ticles valued at nearly 5000, including
bric-a-brac, curios, paintings. statuary and
tapestry Mr.. A. e. Burklein is chairman
Of the smoker committee. The events will
include wrestling. boxing, novelties. pie-eat-
Ing matches, etc.
The second night of the festival is in
charge of an entertainment committee, Mr..
Joseph e. Luckett, chairman. The per-
Torrance will be something far above the
ordinary vaudeville. 1t will be professional
throughout, and members of companies
playing here and others living in Washing
ton will combine to make up a program
that viii surprise everybody by Its merit.
the committee Is az f MsSsI o Stein
c. J. James, t. A. Smith, p. b. Chase. w.
H. Rapley, w. H. Santelmann, Philander
Johnson. Frank sherer and G.. B. Hanford
The matinee Wednesday, May ~, Is IN
charge of Mr.. Franc e. Sherry and coIo-
petent committee. feature of this AMI
the Saturday matinee will be the presence
by invitation Of the children from the va
rious orphan asylums of the city spien-
did performance will be given. The Ma
tional Guard Band Will furnish music, and
there VIII be varying and thoroughly en-
1oyabie vaudeviHe entertainment
Devoted to Shriners.
The third night of the festival was des-
ignated as Shrine night, and the arrange
nents put in charge Of a committee with
Mr. Jacotus s. Jones as chairman. Tne
general arrangements for the night are. as
follows:
The mobiles of Almas Temple will be
called to convene in the armory adjacent
to Convention Hall at 7:45 pm, May "a
Tho patrol under the; captaincy of Louis
c.. Wilson will also rendezvous there at
that hour
TO the music of the National Guard Band
at S:15 o'clock the march will be made into
Ccaventinl Hail.
i. Drill will commence at $3.50 o'clock by
the Alsnas Temple famous patrol The
drill will be concluded about o'clock.
After the drill. the following numbers viii