Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-23
MARYLAND HISTORY
LIVED OVER AGAIN.
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The Virginia Reel was danced by
the Girls Patriotic League of Glen
Burnie, all OF whom wore white and
danced we'll This dance was very
pleasing and a reminder of the days
gone by when this style of dance was
all the rage.
In these dances the marked fea-
lures were the fiery dances by Mr..
Chatin-H Holman, the youthful artist.
whose opuses have been hailed
with oyations. His first photographic
dance episode was a fantasy The
Soul ol- The Shadow which was done
in a 6radeN setting OF dark schemes
One seesaeS 20 miss Just a-4s1ne
through sU@fSo tal darkness although
this was one> ST >rSS biggest emotional
reading ever cre4ted ana gave the ar
| tist-dancer the Sensational success he
| deserved. In the second dance, an
oriental one Mr. Chatin-Hofmann gave
wierd interpretation of ,he nissan
| thropic and aesthetic His cOlorfui
| hand painted costumes and his re-
fined talent gave startling proof of his
| cOnsummate ability.
After an intermisison another period
| of Maryland history was re-enacted.
This was the Colonial period During
the festivities of colonial days, Mr..
Warfield (the ancestor of Governor
Warield) impersonated by Prof. W.
o. Stevens, interrupted Mr.. Anthony
Stewart prof. Brown who was enjoy
ing himself among the ladies at an
Afternoon tea, by rushing in upon the
group and demanded that Mr. Stew
art take a lighted torch which was
carried by the indignant and angry
colonists, and set fire to his brig, the
Peggy Stewart then at anchor in
Annapolis harbor off Windmill Point,
with its hated cargo of taxed tea, some
200 lbs. The mob the torches, the ap-
pearance of Mr. Warfield leader of the
angry colOnists. the burning" of the
brig and its tea. were all very realis-
tic, and called forth prolonged APP
plause
In the early scenes Mr.. Bonnell had
taken the character of the Governor
of the colony, and Prof. Handy, of
Father White, when the pilgrims
planted the cross. The character of
Anthony Stewart was well imperson-
ate by Instructor Harold G. Brown.
During Episode vi preparations for
the Revolutionary War, Mrs. WoIcott
Hall, sang her rich clear voice ringing
out upon the night air in melodious
strains, under the grand old Liberty
| Tree. This was an effective setting
with the group of colonial ladies in
powdered hair and costume of the per-
iod at the spinning wheel Mrs. Halls
beautiful song was greeted with ire
mendous applause. The setting then
dropped forward a century or two,
and more modern period was enact
ed with its familir scenes of the care
free South, in 1912-191S. There was
peace and plenty and gaiety galore.
The fairy dance was most pictur-
esque and beautiful In this scores
of young girls in airy and dainty cos
tunes, truly typical of fairy land
sported and cavorted about and amid
trees and shrubbery They were as
graceful as their motion and dance
was poetic and artistic. They re-
ceived rounds of APPLAUSE. Another
dance, ."The Rainbow Gavotte" by
young girls was BEAUTIFULLY done, and
the Beautiful Blue Danube was fea-
ture of the Episode. This was danced
by Mrs. John Writ Wilmer and forty
young girls, who represented wood
4 D,sfc- ,s.att
they waved above them in graceful
fashion. Mrs Wilmer has adopted
the style of Isabelle Duncan, and her
dancing is veTy4artistic. She is agile
and graceful and her poses are effec-
tive She was showered with applause.
received handsome bouquet and was
obliged to respond to an encore. At
ter the scene war was declared in
Europe in 1914, the Belgian refugees,
impersonated by the Girls Patriotic
League of Pasadena, was true to life.
There followed in quick succession
other scenes bringing the war to date,
and the drilling of the State Guard in
some of the scenes was very well done.
The Red Cross of Humanity was a
striking feature and Liberty was
splendidly impersonatd by Miss Ann
Tilgnman.
Credit should be given the sailors
from the Reina Mercedes, who spent
the Afternoon hanging flags around the
campus to screen the performance
from public view: to Mr.. Thornton
Strange, property man, who attended
to all the properties and lent inval-
liable assistance and to the Annapolis
Choral Society whose singing, in the
First Episode, as Puritans, was great
help to its success. .
To our own Annapolis Historian"
DR.. Elihu S. Riley. author of many
books, journalist, writer of note and
historian. is due the credit for the
historic presentation of the pageant,
which was n its entirety. founded up
on his book Maryland, the Pioneer of
Religious Liberty the only colony
that offered the right of religious free
dom in America.
In the episode, with the Indians the
Boy Scouts played an important part
as they always do. Not only were they
good as Indians, but in every way they
worked hard TO make the affair a sue
cess, and TO their credit be it said.
they sol a large number of tickets