The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-17
! RED CROSS PAGEANT
SYNOPSIS ANNOUNCED;
PROGRAM IS FREE

Colonel Peter Traub, commanding
,officer at Fort Thomas, KY, will open
the program at the Coliseum next
Sunday afternoon with an address
when the pa geant, "The Red Cross Of
Peace" is presented to formally open
the Wayne county annual membership
drive. Colonel Traub is said to be
the most enthusiastic officer in the
army on the American Red Cross, and
a very good speaker. The program
will begin at 2:30 promptly and will
be free to everyone. No admission
will be charged.
The special music for the pageant
will be furnished by members of the
Richmond Symphony orchestra, which
will hold rehearsals at the Coliseum
at 800 Saturday afternoon and 1880
Saturday evening. The cast of the
pageant will number 1876 men, women
and children. The principal charac-
tiers will be: The Red Cross Of Peace,
Mrs. Juliet Shirk; retired soldier, Ma
o jor Paul Comstock; Columbia, Mrs.
Wilbur c. Hibberd; community, Mrs
John Johnson. Miss Anna Laugh will
have charge Of the stage settings.
MarshaIs Appointed
marshal has been appointed to
take charge of each of the 10 divi-
sions. They are, in order: Mrs. Jo-
seph Conner, Mrs. Richard Study,
Mrs. Juliet Shirk, Mrs. Frank Critch-
EFT, Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs George
Bosley, Mrs. Frank Druitt, Mrs Ger
trude Kolp, Miss Mary Peltz, and Mrs
Paul Comstock
A synopsis of the pageant follows.
FRS. Part
Bugle, Call to the Flag; prelude,
The Spirit of Humanity; Characters
humanity: Clara Borton, Florence
Nightingale, two civil war nurses;
three civil war soldiers.
Action 1.-The Red Cross in War.
Characters: Junior Red Cross, Motor
corps, sewing department, educational
department, surgical dressings, can.
3 teen service, knitting department.,
home service department nursing SER
vice. overseas personnel.
Action II-Columbia presents COM
mission to Fed Cross of Peace.
Action Hired Cross of Peace
Outlines Peace Program to Returned
Soldier. Music, Hymn of the Repub.
lie (Stowe). Recessional, Kipling.
Second Part.
Activities of peace program.
Action Public Health Service
Tooth brush drill Characters: Group
of children. Nursing service. Charac-
tiers: Public health nurse, blind child
disabled soldier group of women, TN
migrant mother and child crippled
child, disabled sailor, disabled marine.
Music-"keep the Home Fires Burn
ing. audience. choir and children.
Action 1I-Home Service. Charac-
tiers: Home service intervIewers, SCI
dier's wife and child, blind soldier,
federal board student, hospital social
service visitor, dependent mother
compensate client. Music.
Action III-Home HYGIENE Teach.
ing Center. Characters: Red Cross
nurse; high school classes.
Action IV-Disaster Service. Char
acters: Group of tornado victims, Red
Cross nurses, litter bearers, Red Cross
physicians, Red Cross social workers.
Music.
Action V-America of Tomorrow.
Junior Red Cross. Characters: Mother
and children, homeless children, happy
childhood the world over. Music
Lullaby, Spring Song (Mendelssohn).
Third Part.
The response.
Tableau-The Greatest Mother OF
All Characters: Red Cross of Peace
and group of grateful humanity, group
of children.
Community's response to the roll call.
Music-"God of Our Fathers" quar-
tet; waltz, orchestra; march, "Pomp
and Circumstance" orchestra; Amer
ica," audience.