Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1911-08-29
ARDENITES in
PAGEANT AGAIN
Harvest Home Also Planned
In Connection With Event
This Year
PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISTS
THREATENS TO ADD COLOR

Ardens yearly festival The Pag-
cant Of Arden Town." will be held on
Saturday and Monday next snd the
residents of that community lying
nestled in the rolling lands Of Bran
DIVINE hundred will vie with one
another in portraying characters from
Robin Hood. The leading character
of the pageant will be VIII Price, the
Philadelphia architect, as Robin Hood.
That is, he is scheduled to be such,
but George Brown, who assisted in
adding color to last years pageant az
the professional mendicant, declares
he will appear as the Sheriff of Not
tingham with his posse and threatens
to arrest Robin Hood as was done iu
days of old.
Whatever is done by the "Philo-
sophical Anarchist" will be watched
by the spectators with interest. To
add to the two days revelry proclama-
tons have been posted calling for a
Harvest Home in addition to the
pageant. The proclamation follows:
Come all yel Come all vel Come
all We!
proclaiming a Harvest Home. For
which purpose has been set aside the
days of Saturday and Monday the
second and fourth of September, 1911,
at four of the clock in the afternoon.
For another year has passed us on,
we have stood the shocks of twelve
long months, our feet are surer on
the ground. orr kinship greater, and
our difference less.
Come now. ALI Yet US rejoice once
again let us be merry and let the
Joy of our life spill over in sport.
Those Of us that have grievances, let
US forget; those of us whose paths
are hard, let us tread for once the
paths of pleasure.
The chill days OF rest draw nigh,
but first the earth robes itself in
glory for its Harvest Homel in gold
and crimson folds the passing year
So let us deck ourselves in what gear
we may that clamors Of our joy; let
us raise up the symbols of the faith
full earth and meet half way the
years triumphant close.
Come ALL Come All in fnery new
or old, bedeck yourselves, set forth
the banners of your Gilds. with sheafs
of wheat and flowers gay, with fruit
of earth and mans best work. sci
yourselves in order and from the Red
House start, march in the appointed
way, dance. sing, play; let kindly
folly lead your steps a little while.
And let us make no burden of oul
& Joy; let us bring no wares to sell
4 let us give for the JOY of giving and
the joy of the sports We see. let ui
60 home with our arms empty, viii
our pockets and our hearts full light
Here will be nought to sell but sweet
voiced song, quick-turned jest anS
light-foot dance. Here will the play
ers play and tumblers tumble, the
wrestler throw his lusty foe, thu
archer shoot his shafts; here shall
sweet-faced youth and autumn-tintaC
age, vieing once again, round on
life's mellow year.
For soon, my friends, we scatter, thu
leaves Of this years growth whir
down the hollow year and whether ou
new year shall bud for us, side b,
side or at all, we know not, so lie
us hold the tighter to the fellowship
OF today.
As the men of olden time rejoice,
at the harvest times, as they dance'
n and sang and played upon the green
so let us Of this soberer day Civ
n fancy reign and shadow forth on
hope Of better days, in festive gart
in joyous shout and merry Jest. Al
afternoon of sport and simple revelry
and then at evening the Player
Gid will play their plays and afte
each of US may dance our I'LL.
The posters for the pageant ar
4 done in green. on a thick brown pape
and are illustrated by Henry Kiefer,
youth from Cincinnati. Ohio. Thi
reads as follows:
yearly festival of hopeful JOY 70
Arden and its friends. To be held o
Arden green at four of the clock o
Saturday and Monday the second an
fourth Of September, Ammo Domir
1911
An afternoon of sport and simpl
revelry and then, at evenings clos,
the Players Gid will play their play
and after we may dance our fill.
III Following the pageant the Player
N Gid will present "A Mid Summe
Nights Dream" and the character
Oberon will most likely be played b
a real king. This is the part Mr.
Upton Sinclair recently portrayed
q the theatre there.