The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-08-10
NORTH STAR FESTIVAL
Will HOLD SWAY FOR
FIVE DAYS AT DULUTH
Pageant Depicts !, Important
Events in History Of Pro
- gress of That Territory :

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that will hold sway in the Zenith
City for five days beginning with
August 18th, and continuing thru
August 21st, promises to be the most
gorgeous and largest festival Of it's
kind ever staged in the Great North
west. -.. .lA-.., .. =,
The David Visited Post of the AM
erican Legion, under whose auspices
the festival is being held, tells that
they are sparing neither money or
effort to make this festival the best
of any affair of its kind ever held IN
this territory They assure all visit
ors rousing good time, and four
DAYS filled to the brim with historical
facts, fun and froIic Without end. =.
The Pageant. takes into consider
alton every important historical
event bearing on the progress OF this
territory, beginning with the discov-
cry of Duluth and the Great North
west by Jean Duluth, the coming
and driving out of the Indians, Du-;
luth being Incorporated as a city
fifty years ago, the discovery OF our
great iron mines, the call to arms in
'9S; the outbreak, of the World War,
and the entry of the United States
into this greatest of all conflicts, and
winding up with an analysis of Du-
|luth's part in this conflict, il is at
this point that >Duluth's former
"Over Seas" men will give a very
vivid demonstration of going "Over
the Top.'' The last feature would
make a Pageant in itself, because 1t
is here that the veterans, relatives
and friends who were not fortunate
! enough to take part In that greatest
tof all COMETS. will get an idea OF how
the ,doughboys lived in the trenches
and just how they went about to
make an assault on the enemy's
lines, -. "@ : W.. .,..>,. .
+ The cast has a personnel of fifteen
hundred. The Indian scenes alone
will include four hundred men, wo-
men and children, and there arc sew
leral other scenes that will take In
just as many. rr -, 'r,'' ~ Z
The best local talent ;obtainable
will take part in the pageant. Miss
Myrtle Hobbs, well known Duluth
soloist and entertainer, has been cast
! for the leading female role, that OF
4 OoQuenehahqooquay,r the wild rose
woman in the Indian episodes. Miss
Alto Nylander, another popular Du.
luth entertainer, will take the part
of Mesquahquah dooquay, an Indiar
i girl. John Roy, a full ;blooded Chip
|pewa Indian will sing Wawaosh, ant
Daniel Morrison of part Indian bloot
|. Twill play parts Of Madwayahshe, ant
Indian chief, Two other well known
sbloists, G.. D. Richards and RALPH
Page, will play the parts OF 'Wah
: beqwuhuam, an old medicine man
: and Wasikwade; a Chippewa brave.
; Rudolph Burquist has been cast 70
> the role of Greysolon Duluth, tn
!, lprincipal character in the pageant
{ The Duluth Choral Society will TAX
all the characters In the court scene
of Count Frontenac. + & n: .s- - .
i A grandstand seating 5000 per
sons, is now completed, and 1t Is ex
!, pected no less than $4,000 person
! will attend the pageant. A com
plete production will be given eacl
evening, while the pageant parad
0 will be held Tuesday evening, gAu
g gust 18th. The water carnival OF
: Saturday afternoon, August 21st. TIL
3 Minnesota State Legion Convention
Y will be held during, Pageant Week
: while the State Elks are. to he in
t lvited to visit the festival .enroute Il
. the Elks' conven ton at Virginia, Au
81 gust 10, 20 and 21st. !, I.