Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-21
Large Cast Necessary
To InperSonate Victory
Pageant at Long View

The Victory pageant to be staged
tomorrow evening at the Fifteenth
street entrance to Long View park
promises to be a very beautiful
spectacle. 1t is sponsored by the
Community Service league with
the cooperation of various patriot
ic organizations of the city. An I'M
usually large cast is necessary to
present the production and is head
ed by the spirit of joy impersonat-
ed by Miss Ruth Blakemore. Each
| leading character will be in a cos
tune of white and her attendants
will be in peasant costume typical
of the allied countries represented.
Through the courtesy of Walter
Rosenfield the music will be fur
nished by Bleuer's orchestra. The
entire production which begins at
Tbs. will be free to the public and
record crowd is expected.
The caste of characters is an
nounced as follows:
Spirit of Joy-Miss Ruth Blake
more
Tyranny-E E. Wilson.
America-Miss Marguerite Nc
Cabe.
Victory-Mrs. Clyde Marshall.
France-Miss Clara BIakemore
French maidens-Virginia Bat
ties, Nell ElVell, Marjorie Sala.
Helen Moore and Vesta Dempsey.
Great Britain - Miss Gertrude
Hickman. Maidens from the Hi-Y
group.
Belgium-Miss Mae Clark Maid
ems, Miss Clara Dennis, Miss Vera
Bronson, Miss Lucille Sutterman.
Miss Agnes DePoweIl, Miss Do
rhine Tanner and Miss Florence
Anderson.
Serbia-Miss Hazel Willis Maid
ems, Miss Jerry Whitney, Miss
Ethel Stevens, Miss Oenone Apple,
Miss Amy Comegys and Miss Viola
Scherer
Italy-Celeste Comegys. Maid
ems, Miss Cornelia Comegys, Miss
Lillian Harms, Miss Marian Fraser.
Miss Frances Medill and Miss
Frances Gmelin.
Rumania-Miss Irma Rochow.
Maidens, Miss Leona Nelson, Miss
Betty Schroeder, Miss Dorothy
Borst, Miss Elizabeth Cattryse,
Miss Alkaline Schroeder and Miss
Jennie Marks.
Montenegro-Miss Eva Simonds
Maidens, Miss Bessie Eggert, Miss
Charlotte Smith, Miss Viarda Clark
and Miss Sarah Wakefield.
Greece-Miss Tillie Nyquist-
Maidens, Miss Lottie Danielson,
Miss Clara Carlson, Mrs. Bartlett,
Miss Mildred Vessel, Miss Bertha
Hall and Miss Mildred Lintz.
Japan-Miss Velma Hickman.
Maidens, Mrs. Suzanne Scarr, Miss
Mildred Schick, Miss May Foster,
Miss Carrie Eklund and Miss Gar
nett Hitos.
Poland = Mrs. Gertrude Smith.
Maidens, Miss Bessie Briggs and
Miss Carolyn Briggs.
Portugal-Miss Ethel Marks and
Miss Catherine Roseberry.
Children of the world: Mary
Canty, Lucille Decker, Audrey
Hansgen, Ethel May Baldwin, Flea
nor Huesing, Ruth Churchill, Lula
Ferguson, Gladys Steele, Florence
Lewis, Bernadine Norton. Lucy
Mae Whited, Florence Levenstein,
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Blood, Mildred Lamp, Helen Vale,
Olive Mogler, Ethel Bolk, Kathleen
Burns, Caroline Leckey, RosamOnd
Fischer, Kathryn Gerard, Mary
Alice Long, Mary Searle, Elaine
Steenburg, Ruth Bowlby, Helen
WEIGH, Dorothea Battles, Kathryn
Ward, Dorothy Schlowalter. Char
Iotte Norton, Dorothy Caulpetzer,
Martha Green, Marian Sorrow,
Elizabeth Griffen, Velma Hickman,
Organizations taking part are:
Soldiers, marines and sailors.
American Red Cross-Overseas
and Red Cross nurses; canteen; To-
cal Red Cross nurses.
Y. W. c "A
Munition workers.
Land workers.
Y. M c. A
knights of Columbus.
Salvation Army.
Boy Scouts.
Spanish War Veterans.
Helen Gould Circle.
Rehearsal of the entire caste will
be held tonight at the place Of hold
ing the pageant and every one tax
ing part is expected to report for
final rehearsal.