Newark post., 1920-07-21
WILL CELEBRATE
TERCENTENARY OF
PILGRIMS LANDING
Summer School Assisted by
Local Red Men to Present
Pageant


Pageant
In common with English speak
ing people, throughout the world,
the students at the Delaware COL
lege Summer School will observe
in fitting manner, the three hum
dredth anniversary of the coming
OF the Pilgrims to America. They
will present on August 2, under
the direction of Miss Lotta Clark
of Boston, a spectacular pageant
written by themselves, showing
the various events of the great
journey, first to Leyden, thence to
Delftshaven "a journey which
they took in August-and later, in
September to Plymouth.
Students in the community
civics classes are hard at work on
the historical features of the pa
geant and the teachers in the
Demonstration School together
with the children are following in
imagination the route of these ad-
venturous pilgrims to cur shores.
Two episodes of the historical
period have been completed by the
community civics classes. The
first comprised the days of the
Norsemen, 1000 A. D., and is work
ed out in a particularly beautiful
and fanciful manner-an overture
by Greig is followed by Dance
of the Waves" spring song,
which symbolizes the call of the
sea to the Norsemen and their re
sponse to the lure of the waters.
The Sun Maidens enter and entice
these sturdy adventures still fur
ther southwark and westward un-
til they reach the New World. They
sing glorious song of triumph
and while some rest contented on
|, the shore, others seek the mys-
teries of the inland and bring back
strange and beautiful vines, fruits
and flowers. Feasting and merry
making follow and attract the at
tention of the Indians who send
among them a shower of arrows.
Thorwald, their leader, is mortally
wounded and is lifted up by his
men who chant lament and make
of their shields, bier on which
they carry their dead chief.
The second episode deals with
the part played by the Indians.
They send scouts who come
stealthily in search of lurking
enemies. Finding none they es-
tablish here their village and plant
their crops. They return from the
E hunt with feasting and rejoicing
call in the neighboring tribes fol
council and raise a chief to the
post Of Sachem. A plague attacks
the village and they depart fol
a better home. The third anc
: fourth episods are now nearing
completion.
a Miss Clark has asked for the CO
, operation of Minnehaha Tribe, |
O. R. NJ, of Newark, who will
> assist in the presentation of tht
) pageant
This tercentenary celebration i:
e a part of a worldwide celebration
for the planning of which an in
= ternational commission has beer
formed. A second Mayfower il
: actually to start and make tn
S journey step by step as the origina
! vessel did. Fifteen hundred com
mittees, this international commits
sion states, are planning celebra
. tions throughout the world. On
II hundred thousand dollars ha
:, been appropriated at Providence
+ town, Mass, and $450,O00 by Ply
mouth, Mass.
Miss Clark, who is directing tn
Il Delaware celebration, has ha
s. wide and successful experience il
s this line of work and previous t,
d her Summer School engagement
this year, conducted a larg,
pageant in Maine.
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