Arizona republican., 1916-10-20
FESTIVAL OF
 SEASONS TO
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Producer of Many Historic Pageants Arrives to Pre- pare for Interesting Feat ure of the Coming State Fair

With the arrival in Phoenix yes terday of Mrs. E. c. ngham and Miss Louise lngham. the first steps were taken for the series of pageantS that will be the crownlng feature of the state fair The Festival of Sea sons," which has been produced un- der their direction throughout the country has been selected. and hun dreds ot small folks and well known members of the younger set will in- terpret the beautiful theme in dances Of spring, summer. autumn and win ter.
 The outline of Mrs. Inghams plan is most interesting. She proposes to give Phoenix the most pretentious en- tertainment that has ever been at tempted of it's sort. and in the mean time, those who are fortunate enough to be in it will have the advantage of a course of dances under a real artist. Mrs. Ingham has been a danc- or fer years and her beautiful daugh- ter has danced since she was three years old. Miss Ingham is a gradu ate of the WheatCroft Dramatic school, and before assisting her moth CT in pageantry. was a motion pie ture star. She preferred dancing to the silent drama, and though she had achieved success dS leading woman for Hobart Bosworth, she declares she will never appear before the camera again. Both she and her mother are particularly fond of chill drcn and love to work with them. It was her love for children that prompt | ed Mrs. Ingham to create the fairy stories that are told in a series of 1 dances.
 l Today T. D Shaughnessy, secre- ! tary of the fair commission. will meet ] with the school board and point out i to the members the advantage Of 1 having the school children appear III l the wonder production
 | It is her pleasure to make the re- l hearsals a joy rather than a task, | and when the youngsters get together 1 after school and on Saturday she | does not allow them to become weary with the unaccustomed exercise, but l introduces q story telling period. and 1 jolly games are a part of the pro- gram Every day a chapter of the 1 fairy tale that is to be enacted will i appear in The Republican, and a prize will be awarded the one who 1 best Illustrates the story and puts it's l together in the most complete book ! form.
 The pageants will be given five 1 evenings during fair week under the
 
 and the art committee of the woman g 1 club. Different people will be used l each evening and the solo work will he by Miss lngham. who is a dancer or renoWn. No encores will be per mitted, though one number will be repeated The pageant produced in other cities has won unstinsted praise and parts of The Festival Of Sea a- son has been filmed by the Pathe l Weekly
 The spring feature will be heralded with the dance of the apple blossoms and then will come the bees. the spring maids, the pipes of Pan. the dance of tho season and the spirit of ! the flow CTS. The most delicate tones will he used in carrying out exquisite effects, pale pinks, nile greens and
 white. Then will follow summer in the brighter shades Of pink and blue and green, the forget -nots. dew drops. butterflies will dance aboul and he advent of dawn will all but
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