The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-15
IMPRESSIVE PAGEANT
BY CHILDREN HOLDS
AUDIENCE SPELLBOUND

productions by children OF the city
who presented the Junior Red Cross
pageant What the Sandman Knows
at the entertainment given by the Red
Cross in the Public Art gallery We'd
nesday evening. impressive and stir
ring in itself the pageant was enacted
with an amazing amout of histrionic
ability that held spellbound the scores
that thronged the gallery The youth
full actors in their sympathetic, sin
cere and unaffected portrayals from
time to time drew smiles and tears
from their audience.
Opening in a hospital the first scene
shows a restless cripple child, played
by Frank Chambers, with his nurse,
Reba Thomas. The nurse to soothe
him tells him the Sandman gives Won
derful dream pictures of the boys and
girls in many parts of the world As
the boy falls asleep the Sandman,
Robert Shelley, comes in and from his
brown bag of dreams takes one by
one the pictures out, each showing
some service of the Junior Red Cross,
each dream being given by children
from different schools.
In the first scene children from
Whitewater gather in the room before
the sleeping boy and make scrap
books. AS they leave a pageant of
knights of the Modern Health Crusade
passes by each armed with tooth
brushes and other germ fighting
weapons. Garfield children played
this scene.
Contribute to Relief
Contributions for the Near East and
China were given by group of Vale
school children. who were followed by
Warner children who wrote letters to
the children of Switzerland.
Finley school gave a scene showing
how Christmas container for little
European children is packed. The
most pathetic scene was acted in pan
tomime by children of Hibberd who
took the roles of a starving impover-
ished family of the Far East, to whom
the Red Cross brings help.
Red Cross relief in China was
shown by children OF Joseph Moore
school who came in with their chop
sticks and rice bowls Little Swiss
children receiving a letter from their
American friends was shown by the
Vale and Starr school children. Dis
tribution OF gifts from children OF
America among little Roumanians was
depicted by children of Sevastopol.
The pageant closes with singing OF
Christmas carols through the hospital
by the children OF Baxter school and
the arrival OF Christmas tree for the
little cripple.
Written BY Mrs. Girty.
The pageant was written by Mrs
Fred J. Girty and children in the
schools wrote their own dialogues for
each of the scenes of the Junior Red
Cross services. Miss Emily Walker,
Of Starr school supervised the pro-
duction with the assistance of the fol
lowing teachers from other schools
Whitewater Miss Ella Wuenker: Gar
field, Mrs. Clara B. Graves: Vale,
Miss Sarah Sanderson and Miss Ada
Wcodard; Warner, Miss Ethel Yves
sci; Finley. Miss Neff and Miss Maude
Brown; Hibberd, Miss Eleanor Bly,:
Joseph Moore, Miss Mabel Stafford :;
Starr, Miss Kinchel; Sevastopol, Miss
Tnthauh, and Baxter. Miss Ruth Hen
derson.
The pageant is 10 be presented after
the first of the year for children of
the city, and it is said that members
Of the Lake Division of the Red Cross
viii come here to see the presentation
at that time.
Musical numbers were given during
the evening by Miss Rhea CrandalI
soprano, accompanied by Miss Gladys
Longnecker, and by Georgianna Doan
violinist, accompanied by her moth
er Mrs. Harry Doan.
DR.. l.. F. Ross, chairman of the
Wayne county chapter Of the Ameri
can Red Cross, introduced Miss Lila
L. Payne, chairman of the Junior Rec
-Hn Oh toll h.
work of that organization.
Miss Payne Speaks
The Red Cross is one of the
achievements of civilization" Lila e
Payne, chairman of the Junior Rec
Cross and elementary supervisor o
the public schools said. 1T know!
neither race nor creed, friend nor en-
envy. but goes wherever it can help.
What the public school children car
a.. do for the Junior Red Cross, Miss
Payne said is not its great object il
the schools. The fact that pearl!
1000 Christmas packages have beer
packed and sent to children acros:
the waters; that in one week 1852:
Christmas seals had been sold; tina
scrap books were made for children
and disabled soldiers; that Christina
carols are sung by the children
THESE achievements / uO IibL COlSlue
much in themselves. 1t is what it ha
done for the Richmond children t,
perform these duties and services
that counts and which is the motiv,
for carrying on the Junior Red Cros
work in our schools.
We know now she continues
that We learn best those thing
which we learn in situations like thos
in which they are to be used. Child
hood is not a preparation for life.
she declared. Children are living !
We wish them to have certain atti
tudes and ideas as adults we mus
see that they have those attitudes an
ideas as children
Must Do Kind Things
Quoting DR.. Dewey who says mora
character is an affair Of shared socia
relationships, Miss Payne explaine
that lit is not enough to teach chi
dren the precepts about kindness
honesty and patriotism that will nc
result in their being kind. honest an
patriotic, but they must do kind thing!
be honest, and perform patriotic sci
vices
Further illustrating her point tn
sneaker said: Children in Richmon