Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-29
ST. LOUIS STAGES 4 GORGEOUS PAGEANT FOR 15OTH BIRTHDAY
Reproduction of Historic Events on Magnificent Scale Feature
 of Big Celebration.

was gwen here tonight ln cOmmemO- ration of the founding of the city one hundred and fifty years ago required for its production probably the larges stage in the world and a cast of 750o persons
 The production was in two distinct parts--the pageant by Thomas v Stevens, head of Che school of drama Of Che Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. Pa and the masque by Percy Mac Wave
 The Pageant began shortly before |suDset and continued until dark After a short mtermission, the masQue was given under electric light The pageant was a series of thirty living pictures, portraying important events in the history of SL Louis Flfty-six hundred linen and wu,cn look part in this pre- .sentation.
 The pageant opened with a scene depicting the mound-building era ol st. Louis, which is on the site of many of the old mounds The movement be gan with long lines of men and women bringing earth in baskets and building a mound in which they buried the Ichief of their tribe Theimmense stage represented the site of the present city Of St Louis. Between the stage land the hin to the south on which the spectators sat was lagoon, 15O feet wide. representing the Mississippi River The spectators were asked to Iimagine themselves as seated on the lhuns on the Illinois shore and looking across the Mississippi River to the site of st. Louis as the history of the city passed before them. As the mound builders buried the chief of their tribe buftaloe hunters ap- preached and persuaded them Co give .up their mound building ways
 Indians then appeared on the stage 1.-the year now was supposed to be I15Sg-gnd gave characteristic dances and war scenes Then came a repre- sentauon of the expedition Of De Soto .with his Spanish gold seekers Father Marquette the French missionary then came up Co the pageant stage-the city leite- in canoe, and after his La Sale and dfty-four traders and ln- Idiaus
 Thus far l500 persons had appeared on the stage in the few scenes already portrayed The movement ender as an Indian prophet foretold the future oi Ihis race.
 The next movement opened with the lpurtruyal of Che founding of tbe citv lhy Pierre LacIede the French settler lvho was represented as planning the towu and leaving his fourteenyear-old son. Chouteau to build it Gradually Ime town grew as Che French settlers Icame in and then the Spanish troops Iwere represented as coming to take IpossCssiou under the first Spanish gov ,euor The dedication of the hr5 .church was re-enacted.
 In lTSO Indians attacked the settle Imeut. and this attack was portrayed lon the stage tonight A school mis- .ues5 appeared on the stockade and fought with the men in repulsIng the |Ihdians.
 The movement closed with a repre- |senDation of the transfer of St. Louis to the United States On one day ac cording to the historians. st. Louis was under three flags Spanish French and American. The raising of the three flags and the lowering of two. leaving the Stars and Stripes was portrayed in the pageant tonight IA watchman then appeared on the tdge of thestage supposed to be the river bank and foretold the growth
 Of the city
 Tine last movement Of tau pageant - portrayed the history of 50 Louis uE der the American nas Firt gauc yae
 startise from s. Louis of -no Lewis and Clark eEpGdltion Go the northwest s by way of the Missouri B.er thc- q |. portrayal of Che day Of fur traders
 and settlers bound for tha west - About two thousand persons ap. | peared in this scene. then came a
 re-enactment of the scenes when General Lafayette visited st. Louis - in 1924; Che return ia battery
 from the Mexican war the coming of
 the German immigrants in 1849; and thc reproduction of the torch light k procession that marched through the
 streets of St Louis in 1865 at the
 the north and the south. D After a brief intermission, the elec-
 tric lights on Che stage were turned
 on and the Masque symbolic Inter pretauon of the history of the city ]. began The masquc opened with
 the dream Of Cahokia who repre-
 sened the spirit of the mound build y CTS civilization He awoke Co md ', his empire gont and himself mocked
 by heat cold wild nature forces. buf.
 falo and wild oat forest and flood.
 He asked the stars If there were no If hope and was told that the Missis. lsippi River would bring a white child |who should restore civilization. This child struggled with Che forces of
 nature. but they retreated as the dis lcoyerers approached who named n the child st. Louis
 sl St Louis, leading on pioneers
 miners and rangers struggled with
 the forces or nature. and nally fought
 Che spirit Of gold and Che war demon
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