Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-10-21
THE WORLD IN BALTIMORE.
Pageant Of Darkness and Light"
Annapolis to be Represented.


Unusual preparations are being
made for the pageart Darkness
and Light, in connection with The
World in Baltimore" the great mis-
sionary exposition TO be held in the
Lyric Theatre and the exposition
hall adjoining, which has been es-
pecially erected for the exposition.
Nearly four thousand persons have
been enrolled from the churches of
Baltimore and vicinity as volunteers
for the grand choir of the pageant
and as participants on the platform,
and they are being rehearsed nearly
every night to take Fart in the pro-
duction Of this great religious spec
cacle. The picturesque costumes
used at the presentation of the page
ant at 1.-The Orient in London" in
1908, at THE World in Boston last
year, aad at 1.-The World in Cincin-
natl last spring. are to be used in
Baltimore.
The pageant of Darkness and
Light" is a great musical drama, and
spectacular presentation of triumphal
events in the history of missions.
There are five episodes, or scenes, in
each OF which about two hundred
persons participate. The first episode,
known as the Episode of the North, :"
represents a camp of American In
dians in the far Northwest. The
little daughter of the chief has been
lost Oh the march. The medicine
man suggests that band of kski-
mos be killed to appease the spirits,
but just as the Indians are about to
do this a missionary enters, bringing
the little daughter of the chief, whom
he has found in the forest.
Africa, David Livingstone. the mis-
sionary explorer, ministers &c a
wounded Arab slave-raider. Shortly
after Stanley enters, at last finding
Livingstone He begs the mission
airy TO return to England, but Living
stone refuses, saying his work is not
done.
India is the scene of the East
Episode. child is taken from the
missionaries in order that she may be
formally married to a man selected as
her husband in babyhood In the
scene, the wife. now a girl widow, is
led to the funeral pyre of her hus-
band. AS the pvre is about to be light
ed, with the living widow upon it.
an official of the English Government
rushes in with a proclamation doing
away with the suffice, as this rite was
called
In the Episode of the West, :"
Kapiolani, the Christian Queen of
Hawaii, defieJ Pele, the Goddess of
the Lake of Fire in the crater of the
volcano Kilauea. The volcano is in
eruption. The priest of Pele claims
victims to appease the wrath of
the goddess. He chooses a young
bridegroom and a child, and is lead
Jag them to the crater, to be
thrown into the Lake of Fire. Queen
Kapiolani comes quickly and defies
the priest. She ascends to the
crater, and, after the fashion of Eli
jah on Mount Carmel, taunts and
defies the goddess, and breaks the
power of Pele forever.
The final episode is great process
sional. Those who have participated
in the four previous episodes march
from the corners of the pageant hall
and arrange themselves in tableau
around a cross, singing the closing
chorus
The pageant is to be given in the
auditorium of the Lyric Theatre aft
ern0ons and evenings during the five
weeks of the exposition. The pageant
was presented in London. Boston and
Cincinnati to thousands Of people
every day. 1t is regarded as one OF
the greatest religious spectacles OF
the century. An orchestra of thirty
pieces will provide the instrumental
music and there will be a grand choir
of 500 voices.