The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-30
Y. ". C. A. TO STAGE
ANCIENT PAGEANT
Green Hills OF Joseph Bryan
Park to Form Sage
for Show

| To the general public. tho feature
OF tho fourth biennial convention n.
Young Women's Christian Associate as
In the United States. which o-cinr :.
Richmond on April 3, will he tho
production of a gigantic pageant "
cd. Tho Ministcring of the { n III
Joseph Bryan Park on Saturd;.~ ate
non. April IL. Nine hundred yirls from
tho various colleges, schools anc You,, g
Women's Christian Associations II {, Q
country, will participate In this won
derful spectacle.
An outdoor pageant viii be uniqu o
tempted here. This pretentious allie
CORY is TO be staged by experienced
hands, Miss Lolita Clark, director OF
Boston's 1915 pageant having been Sc
cured to direct the undertaking. She
has perhaps more Knowledge OF the
any ono In America. and Is sure to
school her charges well. She is being
trude Macarthur. of New York, chair
man OF the pageant committee.
Under the direction of Miss Clark.
the manuscript of the different parts
have been sent to the colleges and as.
sociations In the pageant. In widely
separated portions OF the country the
through tho roles assigned them. There
VIII be but Il single rehearsal, and that
on me morning OF the pageant Miss
taking parts In the production and
watched them rehearse
Clever and Impressive.
The spectacle to be produced here is
declared by those familiar with such
afairs to be unusually clever and i'm :
pressive. II will be the first national
sense that the participants come from
Giitcrent sections or the country Tho
Edison Motion Picture Company has
n ma
the entire pageant. and the reels will
later be shown in all tho cities OF
geans are Ri ns ,ri While t gSo pns
IRON from other associations, Cleveland
timore, sixteen; New York. twenty:
twenty.fve: Norfolk. thirty Washing. :,
ldcnce, r. l.. and Philadelphia will be
represented. The colleges taking part
are Hollins Institute, Sweetbriar. State
NAL school, Greensboro; Randolph
Macon Woman's College. and the IA
tio nal Training Training School. New York
Helen Thobnrn. of New York, and aims
to represent In allegorical pagcantry
the tn work Of the association in the diff
music to accompany the production is
the pest and has been selected with adj :
Snirif h taste ste, The Association
stage and In apt blank verse keeps tina
audience familiar with the interpreted
ton OF the allegory. will be acted by
MISS Louise HolmQuist, Eowned IN
moving robes of royal blue
FOLLOWING the first formal processioo
10 the strains of the Royal March"
from Tannhauser," the college girls
will enact scene illustrating 5The
Association in College Life" Part r.,
VII be called, The Association in the
open country, and will be Interpreted
by the State Normal school Of cream
boro; y. G, The Association In tho
! CITY, forming part Ill of the paEeant
VIII be divided into sections. Section
! one, called "Industrial." will be nre-
sented by the National TRAINING
School and metropolitan Association or
/ New York: section two, called .phv
steal VIII be acted by tho Cleveland
ana Norfolk associations; section
rendered by the Baltimore AssocIae
ZION. showing the household arts and
the pittsburgh. association, illustrating
general education; SECTION four, called
.Ju,naior," viii be presented by young
children of Richmond; section D. CALI
ed Bible study" will be enacted by
the iIynchburg association Part MI
me Association I'm Other Lands" wifi
De given by the Washington associa. .