Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-29

public schools and of the Norwich Free Academy admirably presented the pa geant, The Light, which effectivey pre- sents the argument for such appropria- ! tions by communities for school purposes as are adequate and indispensable if ed .ucational standards are to meet the needs of the present and the future. The audiences were enthusiastic and every scene, or glinmer, as they were called was vigorously applauded, while each appearance of the two principals, who had speaking parts, was the signal for well merited applause. These were I Marian Blackledge as Education and
 Sterrill Chase as Any City, both giving such an intelligent and forceful interpre- tation of their parts as to add tremend- ously to the effectiveness of the whole production.
 The pageant showed the development
 of education from it's earliest down to the present time opening with a pro- log11e in which Any City and Education ! took part.
 Any City was shown studying the
 the proposed tax levy for the year and considering the question of cutting down one of the appropriations. He finally de- cides to cut down on the appropriation for education. whereupon; Education.
 carrying a light appeared and by the scenes that followed, showing important stages in the development of education.
 won Any City over to the decision that he must live up to the resolution, Edu- cation for every one. A public school for I every child and every child in school. No | sacrifice he agrees is too great for the fpublic to make that schools may be kept
 to the highest standard.
 A short eplogue, emphasizing the fact
 that the cost and dangIrs of ignorance
 are far greater in the end than the cost
 of education concluded the pageant.
 First Glimmer-Experience - Occum
 school, Miss Anna L., Welch, director.
 Daughter ,Aldora Paquette; son, Ernest
 Lasreniere; fat'>er, Armedee Demas. The
 first scene or Giimmer presents Education
 in the form of Experience and how dear
 ly it has been purchased. This scene, as well as the second Tradition was
 laid in forest. In the latter, the folly
 of continuing to do things in the old way
 pursued by our ancestors was pointed
 out.
 Second Glimmer - Tradition - Towr street and West Town street schools. Mrs Janet M. Lathrup and Miss Florence M : Bennett, directors. Elizabeth Mara Marion Gibbs. Kathleen Ryan, Catherine Rushworth, Gladys Cruthers, Josephine I Hill, Jennie Zawacki, Lila Smith. Annie Johnson, Hazel Cruthers, Margaret Ma , honey, Doris Browning. Fannie Ee mis ton, Inez Edmiston, Marion Hunter
 Doris Geer, Dorothy Buckley, Harrie Geer, Alice Pounch, Miss RoSalie H. Rior l dan. ,' /; Third Glimrner Invention - Bridg e and Laurel Hill schools Miss Nellie O | Cornell and Miss Vera Stetson, directors e Maud Wooley, Mary Brayman, Ruth Bal y lou, Agnes Woodmansee, Jennie Pedace
 Joseph Holland, Robert Storms Josepl Pearson. Walter Hill, John TanuIewicz
 John Counihan, Raymond Brown, Johl V Huggard, Owen Thayer, Nunzi Griecc '. Mildred Thayer, Linda Mowrey, Mar, |. Griecoy Melvina Gross, Loretta Williams # Hiawatha-Wilford Sutthil.
 : In the Third Glimmer mans growing = desire to hand down to pcsterity the re l. suits of his experiences, etc. was ex ), pressed in the invention of writing b, = means of pictures.
 Il Fourth Glimmer-Training - Greene k vile school James E. Murphy, Miss Ca r therine F. CoughIin, Miss Annie Taf e directors. Greek Dancing Girls-Viol It Levitski, Ruth Metzger, Ruth Whiting l. Lucille Beckwith, Evelyn Eastland. Ef It fife .Redhead, Ida, Jarrett, Charlotte Geel '' Dorothy Ellal, lola Shaw, Elizabeth Ibbi - son, Alice Colembiewski, Steffa Danilo N' wicz, Nella Ksiazek, Marie Atterbur,
 
 II Sutthill, Alec Wiebenski, Alec Chimilew s ski, John Haslam. Walter LukDwsk II William Wilson, John MacDougall, Fran II cis Bielecki, Alec Hoffman, Wallace Al
 terbury, Henry Meleski, James Krame
 The value of training the body ,as praC
 ticed by the ancient Greeks was demor
 strated in the Fourth Glimmer. !, Fifth GIimmer- P.sclp1ine-Mt. Plea r. ant Street School. J. B. Stanton, Mi: ~ Cartr7,da T, Ward Nina - Perr ,5 directors. Roman Soldiers-Romeyn Ho d- dridge, Harry Bowers Percy Odger s+ Daniel Young, Edward Hildebrand, Ge ,n Goldstein, Abraham Shiette, Ernest Ral :, kin, Edward Brewer, Moses Blumen1ha n" Leonard Partridge, Joseph Lewis, Ere I'd Roessell. Saul Budnick, Daniel She " Clarence Parkhurst Captain. Dav of Dallowitz Substitute. Theodore Mon
 gomery Messenger, Paul Monte.
 In the fifth. the effects of overtrainir
 in discipline was illustrated by a seer h. taken from the days of an~nnt Rome. m Sixth GIimmer-A First Lesson in D, J. mocracy-Norwich Free Academy. Mi. a. Charlottle Gulliver director Artht re Fitch, man; Chrystal Whitney maider P. Margaret McGarry. Lady Edyth. HaroI 'f Prentice baron John Young. minstrel he The Sixth Glimmer brought out in d, very forcible manner the injustice of lin as iting the advantages of education to few.
 h- Seventh Glimmer-The Book-M
 Pleasant Street school NIT. J. B. Sta1
 ton. director. Harry Bowers Abra4a, Lincoln.
 1T The dangers of curtai1ing the opportul ta, ities for the education of American boy ,t and girls Is shown in the Seventh = Eighth Glimmer-Force-Falls Schoc ,,e Miss Elizabeth T. Hayes EI'dcto II A dame school-Pupls, Barbara Burdic m ,n Irene Broadhurst, Helen SuslesEi S , pfie Socha Sophie Dudek, Carrie Pi n lar, Statia Dudek. Veronica wftrus .. Sherrod Ingalls,, Robert Burke, Joser :, Burns, Lester Crowel1. John Delane hs Arthur Connor, Thomas O'Ner. Willia SD Hoffman. The teacher, Miss Maria
 Gallup.
 Ninth G1immer - Training in D
 mocraey-Broadway and West Tow
 Street schools. Mrs Harriet s. Blac go mar. A. modern school room-Pupi an Bessie Bruckner, Eleanor Counihan. E 'l- sic Babbitt, Phyllis Brewer. Gladys To ye. toiseshell Marian Geer, Elizabeth A n- cry. Edward Antoofian. Eli Cramer. F It's ward Busch, Max Goldfarb. James Fa lot cone. .Isador Cohen. Anna Retkowski, H. ri- en Gallup Katherine Battersb.R T ,es teacher, Miss Amelia Young. fst Tenth Glimmer-A Warning-Bro lrt Street School, Miss Mary E. Callaha 'n- director
 ey public school of the future sufferi
 4S= lack of public support prnils