Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-23
MARYLAND HISTORY
LIVED OVER AGAIN.
Happenings Of Events Centuries
Ago Re-Enacted Under the
Old Liberty Tree.
AN IDEAL SET T / N G.
For Patriotic Historic Pageant
By Girls League Of Honor
for Benefit of the Red
Cross War Fund.

SIOSo w al
With the old Tulip Poplar, as set
ting. the historic Liberty Tree" un-
der which the real event itself occur
red in 1862, Maryland history was
lived over again last night in events
that were re-enacted under its spread
ing branches.
The occasion was the Historic Pa
triotic Pageant under the auspices of
the Girls Patriotic League Of Honor,
who gave this out of doors entertain
ment as a Red Cross benefit.
If every individual man, woman and
child present represented twenty five
cents in money, the price of adnis-
sion then good sum for the Red
Cross must have been raised for from
the throng of people on st. Johns
campus, it would appear az least half
of the population was there.
The weather was ideal. The moon
shone over the scene and played about
among the branches of those grand
old trees on College Green. There
could have been no more fitting setting
than the Tulip Poplar Under which
the seven episodes were presented.
To the side of the stage" whose
covering was the green grass, the Ma
val Academy band, Prof. Torovsky
leader, played throughout the even
ing's program.
The Herald, Prof. H. c. Washburn,
announced the episodes, the first of
which was planting The Colony in
1884" This was very realistic. The
pilgrims in their native costume,
having landed at st. Mary's in the Ark
and Dove, bore their cross which they
planted and around which they rev.
erently knelt in due homage to
The God of reliEf fous liberty and the
colony that granted It first Mary
land
The scene was very effective, and
the setting picturesque. 1t demon
strated in those early days of the col
ony that love and honor of God and
His worship was uppermost in the
minds and hearts of the colonists.
Episode No. 2 showed the native In
dians of Maryland at the base of the
old Liberty Poplar.
These were represented by school
girls and boys clad in Indian costume,
with feather headdress and gay color
blankets and shawls They built a
wigwam, started a camp fire and
danced around it in typical Indian fash
ion. They did so we'll that they called
forth great applause from the multi
tude of onlookers. A solo by ]. Bur-
nett Holland, who was Indian Chief,
and made an excellent character, was
pleasing feature of this Episode.
Mr. Holland, who is by profession a
lawyer, but a private at Camp Meade,
came over especially to take part in
this Red Cross benefit. He has an
excellent baritone voice, and is good
actor as we'll as a good singer. A
soprano solo was also sung during
this episode by Miss Constance Brady,
in her clear lyric soprano voice. AS
an Indian squaw, her makeup was
most attractive
The Third Episode was the Signing
of the Treaty of Peace between the
colonists and the Susquehannock In
dins in 1862. In this Mr.. Holland as
the Chief OF the Tribe did some clever
acting the setting under the identical
tree beneath whose branches this his
toric event transpired two hundred
and sixty-six years ago, was most rea-
listic, not to say. inspiring. There
was trading between the Indians and
colonists during which many beauti
full Navajo blankets were displayed,
strings of beads and fancy Indian
headdresses, were exchanged for
corn, barley. paper money. and
other things in possession of the col
onists which the Indians craved for
their finery.
! The pipe of peace was smoked and
the episode closed amid prolonged ap-
plause. 1t was a case of ''Seeig Your
self AS Others See YOU or living over
an event of Zoo years previous that
| happened in the identical spot An
napolis has the distiction of which,
probably. no other one of the thirteen
original states can boast, that of re-
! tanning a tree after more tnan two
| centuries and a half intact today, un-
der which noted event transpired and
reenacting that event in the Twentieth
Century.
Episode ", represented series of
dances, ranging from the staid old
| fashioned. though graceful, dignified
, and imposing Minuet, with its low
courtsies, to the more modren dance
of the Twentieth Century, the two
/ step, the one-step, the fox trot, and
others, with which all are familiar.
In the Minuet the girls had powdered
lair and high coiffeurs, and wore
quaint, but becoming gowns of the Co
| lonial period. Their graceful bear
ing was as effective as their dig
nifty was imposing. These were An
napolis girls of the Patriotic League,
Pollyanna Circle, Miss Eva Clark lea
der, who made such hit in the Pied
Piper parade Monday night
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