South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-08-06
"Wednesday

d4i4tNr THOSE elusive SHlIltHt Who
as "a rule conhne their frolicking to
the midnight hour appeared in
broad day light az the chautaIqua
this afternoon. The occasion was the
children's pageant Circus Time in
Fairyland." presented under the di-
rection OF the childrens story teller,
Miss Mildred Anne Mccormick
The grown folks present made the
acquaintance an over again Of those
childhood friends who were so resI
20 them even though they had not.
mp TO the present time. seen them
iu flesh and blood They were all
there. Jack-in-the- box. Goldy Locks
and her three bears. Cinderella. the
French doll Miss Esmeralda Smith.
sine fairies. the brownies. the tin sol
Iiers and the flowers.
Miss Mccormick as Jack-'o-
Dreams. summoned the people OF
fairyland from a large yellow pump
kin which held prominent place
ON the stage. Each character or
group of characters then appeared
I'm appropriate costume and added
its share TO the fun.
Little Miss Marcia Taylor. as fairy
queen and Cinderella, proved herself
most graceful dancer. while tiny
Miss Hazel Gibson was most de-
lightfdl as French doll.
Miss Mccormick deserves a world
or praise for what she accomplish
ed among the children in the short
space Of i've days. There were fully
100 children in the pageant an0 all
were we'll trained, going through
their parts UNDERSTANDINGS. Miss Nc
Cormick has also proved herself a
delightful story teller and has won
the friendship of all the children she
worked with
The piano accompaniment TO the
pageant was played by Miss Hannah
Auer
Miss Mccormick herself took
the lead as Jack-o-Dreams." The
carnival children Included Mar
garet Hoover. Cristine Taylor Mar
dele Harris. Roseland ANN Helen
Noelkers. Martha Gilgore, Robin
Kirkpatrick. Robert Vanderbilt.
Frederick Klein. Joseph Taylor.
Eliza beth Martin jeanette Hend-
rickson. Mary William. Grace. Fer
suson. Louise Lang. Roger Skill
man Harold High. Marjorie Holt,
Eleanor Rumpf. Lawrence Har-
wood. Stuart Fulkerson. Martha
Johnson. Walter East, Betty
Brucker and John Henry Holloway
The brownies are Margaret Toyne.
Katharine Sibley. Evelyn Strickler.
Mary Bleuler. Irene Senrick. Edna
Brewer. Dorothy Green. Alice
Thompson. Edna Jane McCalum.
jeanette Smith. Gladys Kelb and
Irene Pyle.
The garland girls were Evelyn
Moore Donabell Swank Erma
Schmidt Helen Heller. Dorothy
Litznarsk, Lois Morrow. Helen
Miller. Ia Uterine Stuck Dorothy
Lee, Lucille Swank, Shirley Biggs
and Olive Bagby.
The primroses included Eliza beth
Johnson. Virginia Guthrie. Doris
Moore the peoples. Gladys Cot
treH. Florence Arthur and Esther
Freeman. the daffodils. Dorothy
Hollowell Irene Clark and Gerald
inc McPheeters. the fairies. Mar
ella Taylor Queen. Gladys Mellan-
der kathryn Cover. Catherine
Knode. Julia Jacquith Dorothy
Gibson Thekla Detzlar Sarah Bow
ser. Harriet Harwood. Eliza beth
HOLSTER Doris Nichols. Carolyn
Sible and Erma Hicks
Three Bears Cast.
Those who took part in the
story Of the Three Bears are Mar
dele Harris CGoldy Locks Har-
old Armstrong Papa Bear, Rob
ert Whitmer Mamma Bear and
Steward Fulkerson IBaby Bear.
Marcia Taylor took the part OF
Cinderella and Jack Stewart will be
JaCk-in-the-BoN
The tin soldiers included For
est Armstrong. Ca plain; Charles
King Jack Skillman and Charles
White. Tag boys. Joseph Buckley.
Martin kirkpatrick. Robert Beeler,
Frank Goetz. Roy Hamilton. Marion
Hopkins. Bernard Kilgore Jewel
Rumpf Two Peddycord. Edwin Mar
tin. George Keller. Donald Cham
berlain. Charles Gardner and viii
liam Cottren.
The mart If the French doll was