The Washington times., 1913-05-23
GRADUATION MILL
GRINDING STEADILY
Presiding Officers Of House and
Senate to Deliver Speeches
to Private Schools.

With addresses by the presiding Of
hcers of the Senate and the House at
two schools this evening. by one of the
most prominent clergymen of the city
at another school, with an al, fresco
play staged by the girls of a fourth
school. with a large alumnae luncheon
held in one of the big hotels of the city,
and with the annual dance given at
stiil another school, the graduation mill
grinds merrily today and tonight.
The most spectacular even. on the
program is the production of Tenay-
sons The Foresters'' at National Park
SEMINARY tonight. In the glen below
the school at Forest Glen Robin Hood
and all his merry men will roam the
Little John, and all the other characters
OF the English romance will march
fortn, the archers in suits of Lincoln
green. n the weather should be urpro-
pitious. the play will go over until some
day next week
Five Hundred Girls To Appear
In a natural amphitheater the 800
girls Of National Park will be seated.
who will appear as spectators,
and down the slope of another
woodland drama enacted In a real wood
land. Last night in the same theater
was enacted and sung '.Natoma" and
Two more plays are to be given next
week on Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Speaker Clark will talk on the theme.
The World Is Growing Better at the
Friends Meeting House, where the
commencement OF the Friends School
Is to be held His daughter, Miss
Genevaeve Clark. is one of the gradu-'
ates but will not be present, being on
q European trip. The other graduates
. . Harding. Ruth R. Patterson. Jean
H. Roberts. Katharine Hawhurst, Con-
stance Weaver, Grafton T. Brown and
Elmer H Gates. Diplomas viii be
presented by Principal Thomas H Sid
Yell The commencement program
starts at s p. m. At $50. a reception
WI be given for the graduates at 1913
Vice President VIII Speak.
Vice President Marshall speaks at
Fairmont School this evening to a class
at Fairmont Seminary. The graduates
Pa: Alice D. McClelland, Pittsburgh;
Esther McHenry. GAINESVILLE, Ohio;
Helen q. Noon. Pittsburgh; Imogene
Ktundtree. Wilmington. N. c.; Mary l..
Saunders. st. Louis; Edith L. Slater,
Warren. Pa. Kathryn Storb. Potts
town. Pa; Natalie Natalie LIST, I. Storey. Milwan, a,o
Tomlinson. Washington, b. c.
The Alumnae of Fairmont, including
the graduates, held their annual lunch
con at the New Willard today, large
number Of former graduates attending.
The presentations of prizes in art to-
No
Franklin K. Lane, wife Of the Secre-
tary of the Interior. First pr3xe went
10 Miss Bess Clesants Of Vicksburg.
Aise: second, to Natalie Story, of Mil
Three well-known artists made the
awards In oils and watercolors. The
Judges were K. s. Andrews, Lucian
Powell and LeGrand Johnston The
Mary Thacker. Norfolk. Va; second
Louise Keller. Pittsburgh; composition.
jamie Porter. Nashville. Tenn; por-
trafts. Margarete Lent.
Principal Characters.
The principal characters in THE For
e0ters" at National Park Seminary to-
night will be played by Miss Bette Bra
brook. of Boston. as Robin Hood: Miss
Frances Shaw, OF the District, as Maid
Marian; Miss Hazel Bond. Pueblo. Col.
the senior class president, as the Sheriff
Of Nottingham, and Miss Mignonette
Dick OF wilkesbarre. Pa. as Friar
Other parts and players will be as
follows: Little John, Jaret Mcfarland,
Chicago: Prince John, Edith Bolter, Chi
cago: King Richard. Clara Mallen, Chi
cago: Titania, Lucille Evans, Los Ange-
les; Scarlet, Dorothy Bragdon. Pueblo.
Col; Kate. Lavinia Baker. Newark. N
J.; Richard Lea, Loline Middleton, Los
Angeles; Pursuiyant, Amy Bond. Pu-
eolo: Jusuciary, Inez Bolter. Chicago:
Abbott. Mildred Price Morgantown, Pa.
Miss Emma L. Ostrander. of the de-
partment OF dramatics. has drilled the
young women who take part in "The
FOresters" and who staged "Natoma"
last evening. The plays of Monday
and Tuesday are being rehearsed by
Miss Edna Barbour. also of the dra-
matte department
The Rev. Charles Wood, d. D., pas
TOR Of the Church of the Covenant, will
deliver the address to the graduates
Of Belcourf Seminary this evening