The Washington times., 1920-08-29
CHILDREN WILL WELCOME
DIR. BALLOU WITH PAGEANT.


One OF the events OF the autumn
in which people are already, beginning
to display considerable interest Is
the children's pageant to be put on at
Central High School on Octobed IL
as a welcome to the new superinten-
dent OF schools. DR.. r. w. Ballou.
Over 1000 strong. the children are
already gathering under the direc-
tion Of Miss Ina c. Emery. and re-
hearsals are being held on Mondays.
Wednesdays. and Fridays at the Will
son Normal School.
The children are selected from the
point Of. view of health, beauty. and
talent. and the pageant is to show the
activities - physical, mental and
artistic-of childhood. There are to
be scores of children in costume rep
resenting birds and butterflies, now
ers and fairies, cupids and all the
denizens of the world OF childish
fancy. Then there are to be special
units or pageant groups, one, for In
stance. presenting a rythmic inter-
pretation OF the tale of Pandora
Another group-with all the fairies,
flowers, butterflies, birds. etc. for q
background-will present Tom
Thumb wedding. "a double wedding
with two bonny brides-one aged only
half past three"-two wee BRIDE
grooms, bridesmaids. ushers, and all
the "fixin's." The little brides are
to wear the traditional white satin
and orange blossoms, with court
trains and tulle wells "an' every
thin" Little Gene Kincheloe, daugh-
ter Of Congressman and Mrs.
kincheloe, of Kentucky, is to play
the lead" in one wedding party, and
Dorothy Newkirk. Mrs. kincheloe,
who is a talented musician. is to play
the wedding music.
The whole pageant has been work
ed out by MISC Emery, who has
gathered the children together, writ
ten the "script"--if one may use a
motion picture term-designed the
grouping and the costuming and is
now superintending rehearsals.. And
it's all labor Of love with her, a
labor into which she has thrown her.
self on account of her interest in
children and their education and de
velopment. " 49,.
Miss Emery, you know, is one of
the women whose names have been
suggested for the post of District
Commissioner and I'm told she has
good deal of strong backing. She's
on the membership committee of the
Women's City Club-and / gather
many of the members of the club are
roofing" for her. especially now that
Miss Mary O'Toole. president of the
club has declared that she isn't "a
candidate. Miss Emery has beer in
terested in charitable and civic work
in Washington for. twenty years.
She's been a newspaper woman and
writer, has a number of text books
for children to her credit and has a
long record Of achievement.
It's interesting how many women's
names are cropping out In connec-
tion with. the ommissionership-pa
ticularly how many are being sent
in to The Wash ington Times in the
referendum it is conducting: Mrs.
Nina c. Van Wrinkle, "policewoman"
in chief; Mrs. Court +. Wood, some
time president of the Washington
Federation Of Women's Clubs; Mrs
Isaac Pierson, are two or three that
come at once to mind. and then
there's the rent commissioner, Mrs.
Taylor-Clara Sears Taylor--news-
paper woman. writer, business woman
and a very brilliant and charming per-
son, who has emphatically made good
on the rent commission.