Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-22

A LARGE pageant called "The Masque OF
"a the MUSES. win be given on Saturday
evening, February 2, at the Mannheim Cricket
club. to commemorate the fiftieth anniNer-
sary of the Stevens School, Of Germantown
More than 100 stevens School girls, including
several members Of the alumnae, will par
ticpate in this entertainment. the proceeds Of
which will be given to war relief.
THE Masque Of the MUSES." was first writ
ten by Ethel Davis Peiroe and II. winthrop
Peirce for the Copley Society, Of Boston,
where Il was most enthusiastically received
and there is every reason 10 believe that its
second presentation will be equally successful
Miss Mary Y. Holm Dern. who has charge
II tho whole affair, has been very ably as
sisted by Miss Mary Bentley, principal Of
the school, and the entire faculty. the
musical program will be conducted by Miss
NJ NJ VI. Stewart with Miss Edith Sweeser
at the plano. The reoitations which interpret
the pageant are, many OF them, quotauohs
from Dante, Shakespeare and Homer.
The program will begin with a procession
of pages, children maidens, priestess, poet
and chorus girls. who will march In TO
Handels Largo" after which Mendelssohn's
Invocation of the Muses." from st Paul,
will be given. The pages win be Miss Ruth
z. Kitchen, Miss Vida *. Mcclure, MISS
cynthia W. HIN, Miss Sybil Burton, Miss
Helen r. Marshall Miss Katharine Matthews
and Miss Mabel G.. Provost Miss Elizabeth j.
Lawton will take the part Of "children. inc
maluenS VIII ne MISS INOtbt H. NHibAN Ni'
cenSe bcarer), Miss Elizabeth h, Montgomery
coup bearerJ Miss Winitred ). Nicholsoh'
Miss Helen Prestiey, Miss Alice VI. Scully'
Miss Ruth b. Cmsted, Miss Katharine r. NC
Bride and Miss H. Helen Schenck. MISS
Tessie N. Wissler will impersonate the
'Priestess," and Miss Isabel c. Gillespie the
Poet"
The chorus girls will be Miss Louise II,
Goodman Miss Eleanor l. Archibald, Miss
Virginia A. Lippinoott Miss Charlotte -
Qulttner, Miss Elizabeth H. Willing, MISS o.
Eleanor Mebler, Miss Dorothy iserprlhk'
Miss Caroline l., Irwin, Miss Kathryn D.
Mullen, Miss Lucy Bertram, Miss Katharine
r.. Goodman, Miss Helen NJ. Haggerty ana
Miss Nellie i. Wilson.
After this procession Memory walks IN
TO Gounod's march, "The Queen OF Sheba'
and recites n verse which is Illustrated ey
n tableau. The characters are Mnemosyhe'
JOY and Sorrow, which Will be taken, re-
spectively, by Miss Eleanor Hilsley, Miss
Marian T. Bcmus and Miss Barbara j. Elsen~
hover
This introduction will be followed by cpl
sodes representing the nine muses-Thaha'
Calliope. Erato. Urana Euterpe. Terpsichore'
Polymymna Melpomene and Clio-who are
the daughters Of Memory" Miss Helen v
Brown will represent Urania, muse of astron-
omy, who Is accompanied by the Pleiades.
They will be Miss Margery Braun. Miss
Eleanor W. Barker. Miss Ruth NJ. Gentry
Miss Claire H. Karpees, Miss Mandeliene l..
Margaretta X. WINS.
Euterpe the muse Of lyric poetry, will be
| Miss Annetta l.. MaoGrath Her attendants
will be Miss Carolyn f. Troemmer. Miss De-
retta Sands, Miss Katharine Eimerbrink. Miss
| Josephine O. McVey, Miss Alma y. Leanord,
| Miss Augusta ButterwOrth, Miss Bucretia I.
| Gartrell, Miss Marguerite Wainwright and
| Miss Mildred Bratten, Schuberts song
"Har5 Hark, the Lark at Heavens Gate
Sings" will be heard from behind the scenes.
| The Love Poetry will be acted by Erato,
| Love and Poet, the parts taken by Miss Char
| lotte l. F'ricke. Miss Marjorie Beam and Miss
| Isabel G.. Gillespie. They will dance TO Men,
| delssohn's " Spring Song" This episode will
| be illustrated by a tRbeau, with the char
acters Francesca di Rimini and Paolo Mala-
| tesla, who will be Miss Martha Wolff and
| Miss Hester NJ. Davies.
Miss Juanita r. II. Vail as Poiyhymnia
| will represent Sacred Poetry. She will be ac-
| companied by a group of white nuns, who VIII
! include Miss Martha Barry. Miss NJ. NJ. NJ
| Stewart, Miss Dorothy W. Dinsmore and
! Mrs McKlOskey.
| The fifth episode will be dance by Miss
| E'reda b. Gillespie, who win represent Terp-
| sichore, the Muse Of the Dances. SHE will be
| accompanied by dancers, who win be Miss
| Ida :. Craven. Miss Kathleen NJ. Keates, Miss
| Kathryn u. Stokes Miss Joan d. Peterson