The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-17
May FESTIVAL
NEXT SATURDAY
Girls Work Department Of Y. w. c.
A.. to be Sponsors for Unique
Feature at Rand
Park.
PROGRAM IS PREPARED
Procession, crownine Of the Queen,
Dances and Open Air Play
to be Some of the
Attractions.
PROGRAM IS PREPARED

regal style one must be present at
the natural ampitheatre in Rand park
along about 400 o'clock on next Sat
urday afternoon. And If his ears and
his eyes he good he will presently
hear the clarion call of trumpet
sounding afar off down the glen and
shortly afterwards see beautiful
maiden mounted on milk white
charger and looking every bit as at
tractive as fairy just stepped out Of
a book of tales, appear between the
trees and lead a gorgeous procession
to the place where the queen of May
is to receive her eternal homage.
This is no dreamy fairy tale. To
get down to good solid facts. the
girls work department of the Young
Women's Christian Association is to
be the sponsors for this program OF
fairy lore at the park on the coming
Saturday afternoon.
The May festival has been the one
topic Of conversation at the associa-
ton for low these many weeks and
from the program that has been pre-
pared, the jaded city worker who is
faint with the smoke and dust and
unromantic noises of the working
town, may suddenly be waited into
the ETHEREAL realms Of fairies and
satyrs and pans and dreams, In
place where the grass is green and
the trees are shady and the girls all
promise to be pretty.
Given In Rand Park.
The scene of this sylvan revelry is
to be that natural ampitheatre in Rand
park just opposite Fifteenth and
Leighton streets, where the public
speaking platforms have been erect
ed in the past. In this gentle valley
will be erected the queens throne
The procession to the throne, in
which one hundred and fifty girls
and young women are to take part,
will start farther down in the valley
and wend it's way slowly to the fes-
tival's stage.
The queen will he Miss Jennie
Hancock and she is to be crowned by
Miss Miriam Westcott. The herald
who is to lead the procession on the
said milk white charger is Miss
Louise Harrison. Following her there
will be twenty little girls dressed in
white with daisy chains in their hair
and trailing from their waists.
Next will come little Catherine
Montague, the crown bearer; then
six high school girls as the queens
maids, grammar school girls in Jap
anese costumes, the upstreamers in
clown suits; the grade school girls
from Lincoln and Wells, dressed IN
scarlet; high school girls in High
land costumes; forty May pole girls
in white costumes and finally the
Roman dancers.
After the procession is over and
marchers have lined up on either side
| of the queen, the GROWING will take
place and then will follow the pro-
gram. There will be dances by all
of the groupes, including the High
land fling, Roman dances, Jap
dances, clown dances and the first
half of the program will be brought
to close with the May pole drill.
| For the second part an open al.
play, "The Twig of Thorn" will be
presented under the direction of Miss
Edna Jones. In case Of rain, the
program will be given in the Y. w.
C. A. The festival is free but an
offering will be taken at the conclus-
ion. The production will be made
for the purpose of showing the prog
ress made in the girls work depars-
ment.
Those Who Take Part.
Following are those who will take
part in the May fete on Saturday:
! Louisa Harrison-Herald.
,Children's class, marching before
queen-Myrtle Cook. Beatrice Vogler,
Elizabeth Cole, Elizabeth Green,
Margaret Gooseman, Virginia Law
renee, Dorothy Huffman, Roberta
Lowitz, Mildred Peterson, Arm1ntha
Hornish, Eva Wylie, Elizabeth Elem
ing, Virginia Smith, Mildred Smith,
Frances Cook, Elizabeth Cook, Re
becca Bartholomew.
Queens attendants - Catherine
Montague, crown bearer: MIRIAM
Westcott, Eva Kunzman, June Rowe,
Mary Beardsley, Madeline Haubert,
Frances Leffingwell; Phyllis Carey,
crown bearer.
Queen-Jennie Hancock.
Trainbearers Dorothy Dimond,
Gertrude Redman.
Grammar school girls in Japanese
costume Gladys Lowenstien, Violet
Bode. Violet Cochran. Mildred Riley,
Gladys Wells, Ruth O'Blennis, Marg-