The Washington herald., 1914-05-03
1900 PERSONS AT
FIRST REHEARSAL
Preliminary Staging Of Greek
Pageant-Dram Presages
Big Success,
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THE NINE MUSES. KNOWN
Laborers Start Work Tomorrow on
Grounds Where Carpenters Have
Prepared to Build Parthenon.

The general rehearsal of ''The Fir
Regsined." the Greek pageant-drams
that will have its first performance. Sat
urday, May is. was held Friday night a
the headquarters of the pageant commit
tee, 1911 H street northwest. The re
hearsal demonstrated that wonderful
production is in prospect. More thai
1,5oo men. women and children partici
pated in the rehearsal
Sidney M Hirsch. author of the play
is staging IT. He announced last nigh
that he was more than pleased with thu
work of the personnel. not only of thu
principals but OF the participants In gen
eral, who are demonstrating unusual ca
pacity to meet the vocal and dramatiI
demand Of The Fire Regained."
The MUSES..
The names of the nine muses. wer,
given out last night as follows: Th'
Misses Geneyieve Walsh. Eleanor Know.
land, Carrie Cline, Agnes Shackleford
Claire Dixon, Mary Baker, Jeannettt
Baker. Josephine Newell and Lucy r
Russell
Percy s. Foster. musical director OF
the production. announced that the
- chorus and principals would have two
rehearsals next week, Tuesday and Fri
day nights.
Laborers will be put to work tomorrow
on the pageant grounds at Sixteenth and
V streets northwest. Carpenters have
already completed preliminary work for
the erection Of a replica Of the Parthenon
at Athens, which is TO be set up at the
north end of the square. Eleven freight
cars,y containing s,aO seats, will reach
Washington Tuesday morning. Arrange
ments have been made for inclosing the
feet high.
The, goddesses, who will be in attend
ance on the muses.. will be the Misses
Rebecca Patten, Martha Shreve. Marion
Maddox, Eleanor Connolly, Agnes VIII
son, Mary Ellen Wilson, Dorothy QuIn-
tard, Iras fiawley Madge-Pickett Stokes.
Marie Peary Marguerite Frear. Elizabeth
Kent. Clara Francis, Ethel Lloyd, Agnes
Wilson. Dorothy Campbell. Eleanor Tray
Ior. Carrie Lee Chamberlain, and Jane
Austin.
Those I'm Rehearsal.
Among those who took part in the re-
hearsals were the following: Miss Kath-
ryn Boorman, Mrs. r. H. Kempton. Miss
Emma BenRik, Miss May Whittick, Miss
w Whitlock. Mrs. G. F. Thompson, Mrs.
Lucy F. Selzle. Miss Elizabeth Warner,
Miss Nettie RogilIio, Mrs. Bessie E
HURT. Miss Julia c. Mudd. Miss Rather
inc Friedricks. Irma G. Callagan.
Miss Florence Ball, Miss Gertrude Glenn
cnts, Mrs. H. l. Parkinson. Mrs ]. B.
Wilson, Mrs. Charles Bintscher, Mrs
Charles B. Donch, Miss L. Hollister, Miss
Marion King, Mrs. ]. C. Hassall, Mrs.
F. L. Crilly, Mrs. Clara L Ganss, Dr.
Sarah NJ. Siewers Mss Virginia E Cry
son, Miss Lillian Goidstein, Miss Flora
Bassett, Mrs. Frank Kincaid, Miss Flor
ence Price, Miss Jessie Peiee, Mrs. G.
R. Haley, Mrs. Marie Drake, l. G.
Maybee. Miss Lucy Mccarthy, Mrs. Edna
Culley. Miss E. n Schreiber, Mrs. NJ.
K. Ferguson, Miss Marie Cuthbertson.
Miss Laura Sowerbutt, Miss Edna Emo,
Miss Grace E. Crawford, Miss B. Har-
ford, Miss F. Reynolds, Mrs }. w. Allen,
Miss Regina Bartlett, Mrs. Jessie Davis.
Miss Martha NJ. McKenna, Miss Matte
RuarlS, Miss Freda Boyce. Mrs. Helen B.
Jones, Miss f Cosdon, Miss Jessie Lewis,
Blanche Richardson, Gertrude Pruder.
Mrs i. S. Prosperi, Miss A. L Gould,
Miss Fredericka Dorr. Mrs. H. W. Kel-
logg, Miss S. NJ. Egan, Mrs. Mildred NJ.
Long, Miss Jessie L. Gorsoch, Mrs.
Margaret A. Toner, Miss A. l. Graham,
Mrs. Carl F. Stuhler, Emma Krasnoff.
Gladys Bunting, Miss Gertrude Vrooman,
Miss Sarah Cruit, Mrs. Thomas Hartford,
Miss Janet Houston, Miss Elsie Kreig,
Miss Frieda c. Kreig, Miss Louise Nu-
kirk, Miss Ethel Elliott. Miss Matilde
W. Rolb, Miss Cora Merriam Howes,
Miss Hattie S. Tolson, Miss Nellie NJ.
Baxter, Miss Blanche Miller, Miss Alice
Stone. Miss B. Catlett, Miss NJ Bartlett,
Miss NJ. Graves, Mrs. R. H. Morrill,. Miss
Mildred Pofkins. Miss Carrie Wilson.