Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-20
PATRIOTIC PLAY
AND FAIRY DANCE.
Grammar School Entertainment
Under The Auspices Of The
Mothers Circle.
STORY OF THE KAISER.
Breaking Upon Defenseless Lib
erty Tries To Blow Out Her
Torch. The Cereals
Liberty's Soldiers.

Liberty's Soldiers.
The entertainment now being re-
hearsed by the children of the upper
grades of the Annapolis Grammar
School and which is to be given under
the auspices of the Mothers Circle on
April 25th, promises to be one which
will reflect great credit on the chill
dren taking part in it, as well as on
/ their teachers who are coaching them.
The program consists of two plays
and musical numbers. both vocal and
instrumental.
For the occasion a violin orchestra
of seven school children has been
formed and will render several classic
and popular numbers. With no pre-
vious practice in playing together they
have been so ably directed by Miss
Milliken that a remarkable little or
chestra has been formed
The Fairies Lesson, the play of the
first part, opens with a scene in a
forest glade which is the rendezvous
of the fairies and discloses a fairy
dance At the end of the dance the
tion begins as to how each of her
subjects has been employed since last
they met. Each one recounts her ad-
ventures and tells what good work she
has wrought One fairy relates of
having seen a boy who, through
thoughtlessness, was unkind to ami
mails and the Queen decides that he
must be taught lesson.
Scene ii is the interior of a cottage
in which lives the boy whom the fair
les wish to punish. A dialogue takes
place between the boy and his
mother
Scene III is the forest glade and the
return of the fairies and their Queen
to relate that the boy had been pun
ished
This scene closes with a most beau
tiful dance in which the Queen and all
the fairies take part and is so splen-
didly done that it is difficult to realize
that, for these children, it is their first
attempt.
The play has been arranged by Miss
Stella Callahan, teacher of the sixth
grade girls class, who is a very
graceful dancer and has worked un-
tiringly for many weeks in order TO
make it a dainty and attractive per-
formance.
The play of the second part, "The
Rescue of Liberty" written by the
eighth grade girls, is one which de-
| serves a great deal of credit on ac-
count of the great love it displays for
America and Freedom. 1t requires a
great deal of mounting which will all
be made by the girls themselves and
will also include a submarine chaser
made of wood by two boys of the sixth
grade.
A condensed story of the play is as
follows:
The Kaiser, sneaking upon defense
less Liberty, tries to blow out heI
torch, which enlightens the world
Failing in this, he binds her and drags
her away.
Her citizens, who have heard heI
call for help, meet to decide how they
/ can rescue her In answer to theiI
demand for ammunition, clothes anC
money-Iron. Coal, Leather, Cotton
Wool, Red Cross Nurse, Red Gross
| Dog, Liberty Bond, War Savings anC
Thrift Stamp offer themselves, and
Prepared Drugs, Tobacco, Sportsmen
Incomes, and Theatre give their taxes
The citizens then go to Liberty's
rescue.
During a battle between Liberty'i
ship, submarine chaser, and a German
submarine, the submarine is destroy
ed. Liberty's soldiers, weakened by
hunger, are defeated in the land bat
tie which follows.
The American Farmer tells thii
news to the American Housewife, ac
cusing her of wasting food, and thus
being responsible for the defeat of the
soldiers. She promises to cooperate
with him, and save enough food tC
take to the soldiers.
Another land battle occurs, in which
Liberty's retreating army is stopped
by American Farmer who appears
| with Meat, Bean, Potato and Cereals
| Liberty's soldiers, thus reinforced
charge the enemy, capturing th'
Kaiser and Hindenburg's army. Th'
Kaiser pleads for peace, but asks Il
retain Belgium, Eastern France anC
Western Russia. He is offered the al
tentative of death, or freeing Liberty
He frees Liberty. Liberty grants th'
Germans appeal to accept them as he
citizens, and the play ends with th'
Star-Spangled Banner sung by all he
rescuers.
I
Miss Marie Linthicum, teacher o
the eighth grade girls class. has givel
much time and hard work to coaching
and staging this little play and it il
sure to win great praise on accoun
of its being an entirely original idea O
her class. The play shows how thes
girls, led on and inspired by thei
teacher, have reached the highes
point in loyalty to their country.