Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-10
THE WINTHROP PAGEANT
SideIlghts of The Great. Exhibition
Staged Friday IN Rock Hill.
OBSERVATIONS BY an. OBSERVER

UD0[hIhllUN0 III hN UDoLhiLh
Winthrop Heads Deserve Much Credit
for Success of Observation-Disclosures
Organizations. Catered: to Crowds
No Accidents Despite the Big Crowd
Bits of By.Play as Seen from Sec
tion BIB.
While Winthrop College has put over
some remarkable entertainments and
given urirnistakable evidence of much
enterprise in days gone by, the Pag-
cant, "The Making of South Carolina"
presented to nearly 1000 people Friday
afternoon was by far the most noted
success of the kind ever achieved by
the great educational institution The
most thorough cooperation between
directors and players (the players in
cluding practically the entire student
body) made the thing possible and hum
dreds Of people went away marveling
at the wonderful organization. The
pageant story was written by DR.. ).
E. Walmsley Of Winthrop College. The
dramatic director was Miss Lillian A.
Crane of the college faculty, to whom
much Of the success for tile wonderful
entertainment is due. A member of
the Winthrop faculty in discussing
Miss Cranes work with the reporter
Friday afternoon remarked: Miss
Crane deserved great credit for her
work. For weeks and weeks both day
and night she has been working on this
thing, and some of her friends say that
SO heavily has it been upon her MIND
that she would sometimes call out IN
her sleep, Come girls, It's time to be-
gin pageant practice for the after
noon The pageant musical director
was Miss Nancy G. Campbell with Miss
Nancy Hines as accompanist. Miss
Ruth Potwine Bartlett was director OF
dances for the great show; Annie V.
Dunn designer Of costumes; Miriam
L. Meyer, director of costumes; E. c.
Coker, publicity director and A. D. La
ioie, orchestra director
The ushers for the pageant, men,
bers of the Boys Y. NJ. c. A. OF ROCK
Hill did wonderfully good job OF 1t
the magnitude OF the
crowd that they had to handle, and
there were few people holding reserve
seat tickets whom the boys were un-
able to seat without a great deal OF
trouble. But there were a few VINO
were out Of luck on their seats. came
a lady accompanied by little boy into
Section BE. She arrived rather late.
She was one Of those ladies with
tempers easily ruffled, judging from
the way she conducted herself. Inc
section was pretty we'll crowded
have seats ESQ and PSI, she said. NO
body paid any attention TO her ana shc
said it again. The she said something
about people who would take o'hcr
peoples seats. Nobody paid heed. Ihen
she started 10 crying and left the
stands and walked out Of the enclosure
Somebody suggested that she might
have found seat on the grounds l'ke
some 600 other people were doing put
the idea evidently didn't please hcr a'
all.
THE seats were crowded all right.
One lady who was Of the rat, spread
ing variety occupied a seat in front OF
a 135 pound man. AS she leaned TO inc
rear his knees came in contact with her
hack. There was no other way lor IT,
The gentleman apologized some nan
dozen times and finally the lady seeing
that it couldn't be helped just let II so
at that during the remainder ol '''e
show. And the gentleman OIL coutsc
had no kick coming.
paon1e came from everywhere to sec
the show. The reporter met one laus
who came all the way from New YORK
city to sec the pageant. 1t seems tha'
che is q member of the faculty OF
New York college for girls ana she
came primarily for the purpose oi
getting some ideas to be used IN
ma pcant which her college in New fork7
expects to present.
Among those present we're Governor
p A Cooper and United States Sena-
tor y. E. Dial. Seated with Presloen'
y r, Johnson, Of Winthrop College
and master of the pageant, the COVER
nor was a center Of attraction. re"
people were aware Of the presence Oh
the junior senator from South caro-
lima.
Tho Y. NJ. c. \. and other stuoen'
organizations maintained lunch stahos
and soft drink stands on the collesc
campus and they did d rushing ous'-
noss from the middle Of the morning
until Il te in the evening. In TACT VIVA =
sim was visible during the day hao
sunk beyond the clouds before t"e
campus was cleared of the last ot tI'e
ereat throng of visitors.