The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-06-12
4 BEAUTIFUL SPRING PAGEANT
CIVIC LEAGUE FESTIVAL PASSED
OFF IN SPLENDID MANNER,
Large Audience Highly Delighted at
Plcasing Spectacle Presented i'm the
Tabernacle for Benefit of ChiIdrcn's
Play Grounds.

ed IN the tabernacle on Wednesday af-
ternoon to attend the beautiful spec
tacle presented by the ladies of the
Civic League for the benefit of the
Children's Play Grounds. There were
more than so children taking part in
the pageant and every one of them
did her part in manner higly credit
albe to herself and to those who had
charge of training the big and little
girls in the execution of the parts of
the spring pageant. There was not q
single hitch or hesitation and the au-
dience was highly delighted with the
performance, as was well evidenced
by it's applause.
The performance was slightly late
In commencing. but once it was on it
went through with clock-like precis-
ion. There was so much of it and so
many actors that it is hard matter
to give any idea of the play and the
parts that each one took, but the lead
Ing characters will be named and an
effort will be made to tell something
OF what the play was about.
The play was well called a Spring
Pageant, for everything about it sug-
gested spring and the beauty and joy
BUSINESS of that period in the year,
when the flowers arc blooming and
the birds and insects are most happy
and everybody has different feeling
from other times in the year. The
fairies were there to wake the flowers
for spring had come. The butterflies
were there to parade their beautiful
wings in the warm spring breezes.
The flowers came out to show their
youth and beauty and everybody and
all nature was happy. The scene is
beautiful morning in May, out on
the meadow, where the queen of
spring comes forth and is crowned by
her loyal and loving subjects.
Miss Dorothy Phelps was a beau
tiful and graceful queen and was
heralded by Little Misses Lois Flaum
and Rosalie Spann. Dances, songs
and recitations preceded the coming
of the queen and prepared the aud
fence for her arrival and the cere-
monies which marked her arrival and
ascension 10 the throne. Miss Dorita
Noise was a sprightly and lovely
spirit of Spring" part she filled
with eminent satisractiun. Matte Lee
Stuckey and Gussie Cuttino we're the
leaders Of the butterflies in their beau
tiful new spring gowns. and Miss
Jeanne Foresman was the chief of
the fairies, who skipped nimbly about.
Alice Bynum was a grassblade, and
Eulalia Hubbell was a pearly little
raindrop. Blanche Spann was q
many colored Rainbow. Little Misses
Helen and Daisy China were graceful
heralds of the queen. Marian knight
was dainty little Lcafbud, and Nell
Mckagen was charming Sunbeam,
shedding radiance wherever she
went. Marion Noise and Perry
Moses were the courteous pages of
the queen and did her slightest bid
ding. The queens maids and train
bearers were Misses Virginia Noise
Nn 4 I'LL
imbibed some Of the beauty and dig
nifty OF their queen. The last feature
OF the pageant was a fitting close for
the beautiful scenes of the evening.
Miss Alice Barnum with twenty sleepy
little Poppies. sang poppy song"
feature which was very pleasing to
the audience. Probably the hit of the
evening was made by the two clever
little clowns. who kept getting where
they ought not to be and saying
things that made everybody laugh
Louis Lyons and Guy Warren were
these gaudy performers. All Of the
buttcrcups, daisies and violets in
their Hover song were beautiful and
very pleasing, but were too numer-
Gus to mention, as were the many 9TH
ers who did well, but are not mention
ed. Miss Lucille Randlc sang beau
tiful solo as the queen was being
crowned.
Making the pageant quite success
from u financial, as we'll as from 9TH
er standpoints, was the fact that the
committee will clear about seventy
dollars on 1t for purchasing now ap-
paratus for the children's play
also wishes to secure someone to have
charge of the playground and part of
the sum raised will 60 for this pur-