The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-11
DASH OFCOI
TO MAKEPAGEANT GORGEOUS

The life Of American girls at work
at play and at school will be portrayed
In massive effects OF color and move
ment, aud told in song and poem i'm the
pageant OF the Young Women's Chris
tian Association ut Joseph Bryan PARK
morrow afternoon. II should be
understood that this production is
neither pantomime nor drama, but
bold adaptation OF the form OF the
ancient historical pageant to the por-
trayal Of the present activities and
aims of the association
Nine hundred young women in cos
tunes symbolical OF the various phases
OF girl life Will take part The page
ant consists in a professional. "a series
of episodes and occasional There is
no dialogue. strictly He'd. but the
parts are sung by chorus, accom-
panied by an orchestra, and there is
one speaking part, that OF the associa-
ton spirit. which is taken by Miss
Louise Holmquist.
NO house or theatre could adequately
stage production on such vast scale
ana as conceived by the authoress. Miss
Helen Thoburn, the episodes should be
enacted upon broad hillside and
viewed from an opposite one so that
the fun effect OF the great marchin.
bodies may he obtained Almost the
, exact conditions imagined by the young
poctess, ii is said have been FOUND
in the little valley in Joseph Bryan
Park, where the pageant will be pro-
duccd
The audience will be seated upon the
western hillside. and nothing will be
visible on the. eastern slope at first but
me orchestra Then the association
spirit appears, dressed in royal blue.
and accompanied by four couriers in
white. These are followed by the col
lege girls, 500 in number marching
four abreast. They will be dressed in
caps and gowns. and will wear the
colors of their college over their shoul-
dera in broad scarfs. Next in the pro-
cessional are twenty one girls rcpre-
senting the rural work Of the asso-
citation. dressed in Lincoln green. wear
ing liberty caps and carrying lowered
stans. Then come the 200 girls who
portray all the phases OF city work.
dressed in white and wearing colored
scarfs. Lastly come sixteen girls in
various foreign costumes. who repre-
sent the missions of the association
in the Orient and South America
All of these figures will stand in
semicircle. forming background of
varied color for the episodes. The per-
Torrance Will be directed by Miss
Lolita Clark, secretary of the Ameri-
can Pageant Association. and who will
! also have charge of the pageant at
the Panama Pacific Exposition. She
VIII stand near the centre of the array
and direct the episodes with the as
sistance OF four conricrs.
The first portrays the association in
college life, and is presented by "a
group of girls from Randolph Macon
Woman's College. Farmville State Nor
NAL. Sweet Brian College and Hollins
College. 1t will consist chiefly in
marching and singing songs.
The association work in the country
will be portrayed by the girls OF the
state Normal College. Of Greensboro
y. c. The feature of ii will be n May
pole dance. in which many brightly
dressed figures will take part.
The city work is portrayed in "a
series of episodes representing all Of
4 its phases. In the physical" there
will lie & symbolcal water dance by
n number of girls dressed in sea green
and Hight blue. and n rhythmic drill
I Particularly dramatic will be the ono
termed the Junior episode. III which
(, the service OF the association To the
children Of the cities will he depicted
| y crowd OF little children will appear,
| bearing The burdens OF their toll