Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-18
DEBATES OF ITS
TO Be PRESENTED
Interior Department Employees
to Reproduce Continental
Congress at Inauguration.
TO BE STAGED ACCURATELY


IAN elaborate dramatization of the
Continental Congress has been ar
ranged by employees of the Department
of the Interior as an entertainment
feature of the inaugural period. 1t IS
to be staged at the Casino Theater with
performances on the evenings of March
. i, and, and a matinee on the latter
date.
1t is to be an elaboration of the play
which employees of the department gave
some time ago in the pension ONCE.
President Wilson, members of the cabl-
net and other high government officials
have signifed their intention of attend
ing one or more of the performances,
it is stated.
The costumes are to be as historically
correct as possible and extensive prep
arations are being made to produce
scenic effects that will provide fitting
settings for them.
1.-The Spirit of 1776."
The play is to deal principally with
the debates for and against the Deciar-
alton of independence. The scenes of
Washington and his army just before
the battle of Long Island, the tableau OF
1.-THE Spirit of '76'' and Washington's res
ignation as commander chief, will
be brilliantly depicted. Old historical
records have been searched and ward
robes of bygone ages have been recoV-
cred in the effort to reproduce as ac-
curately as possible the stirring days
of 70. No expense is being spared in
the arrangement of the stage and IN
the presentation to make this an oc-
Yct1 and mi
siasm.
Following is the cast: John Hancock,
w. +. Waite; Thomas Jefferson, w. w.
Patterson; John Adams. Philip NJ. Ref
kin; Benjamin Franklin, John r.
Grace; Patrick Henry. l. c. Foster;
Richard Henry Lee, Fairfax Bayard;
Edward Rutledge. G. B. Gardner; Roger
Sherman, Homer Smith: Robert Morris,
William j. MCGEE; William Hooper, w.
r. Hood; William Floyd, C. E. Harris:
Richard Stockton, l. c. Stockton;
Samuel Chase. Cyrus Root: Benjamin
Harrison. Andrew J. Green; Joseph
Hewes, Robert Council; Caesar Rodney,
C. c. Henry; Charles Thomson. John B.
Torbert; Samuel Adams. w. r. Layne.
ton, Lloyd T. Everett; Thomas Mexican.
Joseph J. Cotter: Josiah Bartlett, Glenn
NJ. Shaeffer; Stephen Hopkins. Charles
Waranow: George Read. ]. L. McBrien;
Gen. Washington, NJ. Nivens.
Some of the Colonial DANES.
Employees of the various branches Of
the department will play the roles of
colonial DANES as follows: Secretary's
office, Miss Van Hook; land office, Mrs.
Anderson, Mrs. Cramer, Mrs. Curran
and Miss Martha C. Smith; geological
survey. Mrs. Mary B. Coffin: bureau of
mines, Miss Lillian Chenoweth and Miss
Helen MCGOWAN; bureau of education,
Miss Cuzzort and Miss Edna McCul-
Tough; bureau of Indian affairs, Mrs.
Worrell, Mrs. Hackney and Miss Had
ger: patent Office, Miss Miles and Miss
Marie H. Young; pension bureau, Mrs.
Marshall Miss Hayden. Miss Sturte-
want, Miss Gallagher and Miss Carr.
Through the courtesy of Col NJ. A.
:. Winter. commanding the Minute Men.
regulation military uniforms Will be
used by Gen. Washington's army in the
play.
On Sunday afternoon and evening
March 4, there will be sacred concert
at the Casino Theater by students of
the Carlisle Indian School, and on the
evening of March the dramatic So
ciety of the school will present an In
dian drama.
Plans for new citizens division" in
the inaugural parade are being matured
by the bureau of naturaliza ton of the
Department of Labor.
From responses which have come in to
Raymond E Crist, deputy commissioner
of naturalization, from various organiza-
appear that the division of new citizens"
is assured for the parade March 5.
Poles of Baltimore to March.
Poles OF Baltimore want to pay their
best respects to President Wilson" by
marching in the parade. and Alexander
Bagenski, head of a Polish political or
ganiZation in the neighboring city, has
written Mr.. Crist to that effect, assuring
him that 300 delegates will march in the
proposed division.
The Syrian-American Club of New York
city promises delegation of probably
100 men, and Pittsburgh probably will re-
spond with delegation.
Local citizens of foreign birth are not
expected TO march in the division to any
extent, as it is believed that practically
all of them will be busy bees on in
auguration day in the various businesses
which they carry on here.
Every marcher in this division will
carry an American flag, and numerous
banners will be displayed.