Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-30
PAGEANT GROUPS
1 REHEARSE TODAY
First Outward Sign of Plans
for independence Day Gel
ebration in This City.
ROUTE OF PROCESSION
TO Monument GROUNDS
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Time of Starting of Parade May Be
Changed From 4 O'Clock to
One Hour Later.

TO enjoy in the way of a public cele-
braion Independence day will be WIS.,
ible this afternoon on the Monument
grounds from half past to o'clock.
when the participants in three groups
which are TO take part in Uncle Sans
18TH birthday party will rehearse their
parts under the direction of Miss Hazel
Mackaye of the Drama League.
The rehearsals will begin at 4:30
o'clock, when the twenty-seven char
acters In the group known the
southern states will go through with
the performance of which they are to
be a part July 4. The twenty-seven
characters will include the human ALI
gator. the human ostrich. the five boys
who are to represent Tobacco" and
the characters who are to take the
place of the various southern states.
At 5 o'clock, the characters who are to
represent the middle western states will
be rehearsed: and these will include
twelve girls who are to represent wheat
and seven boys who are to represent
corn" as we'll as the seven boys who
are to depict the middle western states
At $50 the women who are to take the
parts of the thirteen original colonies
will rehearse their parts.
aye in her stage management, and will
lead the group of boys who to repre-
sent the middle western states. The re-
hearsals this afternoon will not be in cos
tune, but are likely to prove interesting,
nevertheless, to visitors to the Monument
grounds who want to acquire some knowl-
edge beforehand of what is to take place
when the celebration is he d July i.
Headquarters of the Joint committee
on Independence day. at 142s F. street
northwest. become buster and busier
each day, the Fourth of July
comes nearer. One of the busiest persons
there today is Miss Smith, who is get
ting permits for the various rehearsals
10 be held at different places in the
Monument grounds, the Agricultural
grounds, the Mall, etc.
Dance of the Sprites.
Today she arranged the details of the
rehearsal to be held of The Dance of
the Wood Sprites, which Miss Alys
Bentley is getting up as part of the
celebration to be held July f.
This dance will be one of fifty small
children in Greek costume, and will take
place under the shade trees of the Agri-
cultural grounds, on 14th street, near B,
the afternoon OF July 4, at the time the
pageant starts
Mrs. Glenna Smith Tinnin, who is in
charge of the arrangements for the pa
geant, said today that she expects il to
way. and almost all difficulties have
been overcome 1t is possible, she said.
that at meeting of the executive COM
mittee, to be held this afternoon at head
quarters. the hour for the starting of the
procession will be changed from the
present arrangement, O'Clock in the aft
ernoon, to one hour later, > o'clock. in
order that the march may be made in
a time when the sun Is lower down in
te sky, although the procession in the
Mall VIII be under shade trees. in any
event and will take place in what will
probably be the coolest spot in the city.
Comic Floats offered
II is also expected that the executive
committee will take up at its meeting
this afternoon the question of the pos
sible participation of the series of floats
which have been offered to the Independ-
cnce day committee by Victor J. Evans
These floats have been built to repre-
sent various comic ideas, and il is quite
likely that the executive committee will
decide that comic features are not nat
urally a part Of the patriotic celebration
being planned. and that if the parade of
these floats is held IL should be as a
separate parade not connected with the
pageant being gotten up by members of
the Drama League.
High school girls were streaming into
headquarters all day today to obtain their
red. white and blue liberty costumes.
The committee is supplying these to 10
girls, 10 girls tn be dressed in red ID to
he dressed in white and ~ to be dressed
in blue
Miss Caroline Fisk, in charge of the
costume department at headquarters,
has her hands full supplying the wishes
of the various girls who are calling on
her.
Citizens Asked to Fly Flags.
Frederick u. Owen. chairman of re
decorations committee for Independence
day. is preparing an appeal to the citi-