The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-25
A BRILLIANT PAGEANT.
A Beautiful Spectacle.

Perhaps the most inspiring event in
the history of our people in this city
was the musical-gymnastic carnival
rendered by over two thousand school
children at Convention Hall last week.
The affair had been under way for
several weeks and had called forth the
best efforts of the teachers and pu-
pills of the different schools. Under
authority of the board of education
the, regular school supervisors took
chargG of the activities and carried
out their work with great vigor.
Naturally, however the burden of
the preparation fell upon the princi
all the details of countless rehearsals,
costuming and rounding up. The re-
markable success of the entertainment
shows how well these all worked for
the common end.
The program began with an over
ture by the orchestra of the Lincoln
High school, Then came a number
designated Playground Activities"
and illustrating the various forms of
supervised play as practiced in the
Kansas City schools. This was car
ried out most Interestingly by the
Blue Valley, Wheatly, Douglass, Penn,
Attucks and Booker T. Washington
schools.
Dumb bell exercises by the Garri-
son school was fine feature and was
followed by a chorus of nearly nine
hundred children who sang Soldiers
of Peace" directed by Mrs. Bessie M.
Whitley, supervisor of music. Ac-
companying music for the chorus and
all the drills was furnished by the
orchestra.
The Atttucks, Douglass, Garrison
and Wendell Phillips schools gave a
high class exhibition of school cadet
marching exercises. This was followed
by free gymnastic exercises by the
Penn, Lincoln, Booker T. Washington,
Bruce, Wheatly and Sumner
If anything were NEEDED just at this
time to add more interest to the pro-
gram and break whatever monotony it
may have possessed it was furnished
in the Horse Show and Merry-Go-
Around" put on in six ring circus
fashion by the little wee tots of the
Attucks, Lincoln, Garrison and Doug
lass kindergartens. 1t was great
hit as well as a number of great
merit.
Wand exercises by the Wendell Phil
lips was good number to follow.
Folk dancing has for several years
been a feature of the recreation work
at the Lincoln school, and for this oc.
casion two new and graceful dances,
Santiago" and Cinderella" we're
given by the pupils of that school.
The Attucks followed this with a
Combination Drilr' that was one of
the features of the evening.
Dutch Lullaby" was rendered by a
chorus of sixty voices from the Lin
coin High school, under the direction
of Prof F. j. Work.
MAY Pole Dances" undoubtedly
the most difficult undertaking of the
entireprogram, had been reserved for
the closing number of the program
and assigned to the pupils OF the At
tucks, Lincoln, Douglass, Garrison and
Wendell Phillips. 1t was beautiful
spectacle in which the work of the
Lincoln and the Douglass deserve
special mention.
The attendance was large and en-
thusiastic. many white people occu-
pying the boxes and encouraging both
the schools and the charitable OBJ
ject of the undertaking. Several local
clubs and organizations had box res
leryations, and the beautiful decora
tlons of these gave an attractive set
ting for the exercises.
All honor to our splendid principals