Evening star., 1918-07-02
ARMENIA TO HAVE
PART IN PAGEANT
will Help Demonstrate Ode
mocracy Triumphant on
independence Day.
NOTED SINGERS COMING

Armenia, whose people have been
world war, has been added to the list
of oppressed nations that will take
part in the pageant, Democracy Tri-
umphant," to be staged in Washing
ton Thursday, July 4.
A committee from the Armenian Ma
tional Union called on Mrs. Marie
Moore Forrest, pageant director. in
the franklin School and informed her
of the plans which the union has made
for taking part.
Although France. England, Italy and
the other big allies will be attractive
ly portrayed in the pageant, the sig
nificant part of the demonstration will
be the presence and participation OF
native Jugo-Slavs. Czecho-Slavs, LII
thuanians. Rumanians, Russians and
other oppressed peoples.
Two singers Of international repute.
A. Chah-Mouradian. tenor of the Paris
Grand Opera, and Nine. q. Panossian
of the Boston Opera. will come to
WASHINGTON to take part in the Arme,
nian program. which will be presented
on one of the lawns facing the Ellipse,
near the Monument.
Episodes in Program.
The first episode will depict the bat
tie of Haik, forefather of Armenia,
against a tyrant king of Babylonia in
2300 B. A. Another episode will show
Armenian warriors of Christianity
against the Persian five worshlpers
in 451 A. D.
A huge banner erected near the Ar
menian setting will bear the follow
ing inscription: Mother Armenia.
spirit unconquerable of a martyred
nation. Bruised but not vanquished:
rescued by Uncle Sam. the champion
of democracy"
This banner will express the vein
in which all of the oppressed peoples
entered into the pageant. There Will
be a group of Armenian girls in ma
tive dress and a detachment of Amer
lean soldiers of Armenian birth.
Rapidly Completing Details.
With the date of the pageant only
two days off. Mrs. Forrest and her
score or more of assistants, including
c. H Clifford of the Drama League of
America. is rapidly rounding the pro-
gram into shape.
There now are twenty-seven nations
or peoples enrolled to make the dem
onstration one of the biggest inter-
national spectacles ever produced in
America They are Serbia, Belgium,
France. England, Montenegro, Japan,
Portugal. Italy, San Marino, Greece,
United States. Russians. Armenians.
Jugo-Slavs, Szecho-Slavs. Ykranians.
Rumanians. Lithuanians, Poles Brazil,
Panama. Cuba, Liberia, Siam, China,
Guatemala and Nicaragua.
At nineteen different points extend
ing across the open space from the
National Museum at 10th street to
the Red Cross building on 18th street
these peoples will present picturesque
tableaux. beginning at $50 o'clock
and lasting for at least two hours.
Details of the program and the loca-
tions will be made public today.
Will March to Capitol.
After all the tab1eaux are over the
5000 or more performers, including
military forces of the United States.
France. England. Italy and Belgium.
will march from the Monument
grounds to the Capitol
On the east steps of the Capitol the
pageant will be brought to a spec
tacular close in the presence Of Presi-
dent Wilson and all of the allied
diplomats. The episode at the Capt.
toll will show, in symbolic dances and
pantomime. the forces of democracy
united against autocracy.
The pageant will close with selec-
tions by a chorus of several thousand