The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-05
Great Performance Will Take Place in the Yale Bowl, With Capacity for 60000 Spectators Seven Thousand A c t>o r s Will Take Part. \

 eature of theI Yale-New Haven Bi- dredth anniversary of the removal of Yale College to New Haven. The Pa Reant is to be given in the Yale Bowl on Saturday afternoon, October 21st. The other events of the Yale-New Ha- ven Bicentennial will take place on Friday. Saturday and Sunday. Octo- Der 20, 21 and 22.
 The Yale Pageant, a dramatic re- view of the history of Yale as College and University, will be presented by "a total of 1000 participating actors. This multitude ,of performers is made up of volunteers from the university, the city of New Haven. and from nearby states. Church and religion societies, fraternal orders, the colleg- iate alumnae, the New Haven schools. the Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls. military companies of New York and Connecticut, patriotic orders, the Equal Franchise League and the Anti Suffrage societies, the police and fire departments Sunshine societies, la bor organizations and every class and department in the university have con- tributed to the stupendous total of actors who will step out upon the green surface of the Yale Bowl and live over again the picturesque and stirring episodes in the history of.Yale and of the Nation.
 The Bowl affords L.ating capacity for 60.000 spectators to view the pro- duction of these 1000 performers.
 The dramatic spectacle, which Is In
 1(c Hov vfv vvoo n Yale 1906, Pageant Master, will in- clude the following principle scenes: : The prelude, showing the medieval wedding procession of Margaret ap Ienkyns the founder of the Yale fam fly, is followed by scenes of the found ing of the colony of New Haven with purchase of the land by John Dayen- port and Theophilus Eaton from the Quinnipiac Indians; the founding of the college by the picturesque cere- nony of the gift books by Congre- gational clergymen of the colony; the removal by force of the books and the college from Saybrook to New Ha- ven, and the first commencement in New Haven. Following an allegorical interlude, representing the coming of the arts and sciences from the old world to the new college in America, come the stirring scenes at the time Of the Revolution, and those characteris- tic of the college in sne early half of the last century. Yale's influence in the life of the nation stands out in such episodes as the martyrdom of Nathan Hale and that of Theodore Winthrop, the first Union officer to fall in the Civil War. These in turn are followed by scenes of modern drill ending with a drill by the Yale Bat talion of Field Artillery organized last winter and in service as part of the Federalized Militia during all the past summer. The Pageant closes, showing sYale. after two hundred years of dis 4inguished achievement, surrounded by the colleges her sons, have found- ed, by her contributions to the arts and sciences and by eminent gradu- ates who have helped to shape the history of the nation, looking fearless ly to her future world service, while the whole multitude, both of audience and of performers, join in singing the Tale psalm.
 The Pageant Music
 The action of the Pageant will be accompanied by the first public rem dering, by chorus of 800 voices and
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