New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-09-09
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SANTA FE FIESTA
WONDERFUL SUCCESS
209th ANNIVERSARY

deal as the Fiestas Of last year and
the year before were very pleasing
and enjoyable events.
People from other states, ranging
from New York to California, who
saw the Fiesta this year Tor the first
time expressed themselves as more
than repaid Tor coming and maryclcd
at the ability Of Santa Fe in putting
on an event which in beauty and gran
deur, as well as the personal excel
lence OF the individual performers riv-
alcd anything they had ever witnessed
in the great metropolitan eenters OF
the country. And well might they
say this, for among those who helped
to delight the large audiences this
year were a number OF distinguish
ed performers whose names are well
known to patrons OF high class en-
tertainments not only throughout the
United States, but across the seas,
among them being NJ. Adolph Bolm,
Russian ballet-master of the metro
politan opera house in New York City
and formerly Of the Royal Imperial
Opera Of Pctrograd, Russia, who rem
dered his World famous Armenian tri-
bal dance at the matinee performance
on the closing day, Princess Tsianina,
the refined and cultured Indian prin-
cess, whose wonderful personality and
charming voice, have held spell-bound
the most critical audiences of music
al America and Europe, and Mrs, Ed
gar Knight, who led the Fiesta Dane
.crs and also rendered at several of
f1a ,,.rfnr,,,a ,,,,r ,,,l.,r,1t,,1 L1.,..-
rape Dance which made her nar.e ia
among them the famous Spanish Sc
nous at the Drury Lane Theatre in
London.
The Fiesta this year cNtcndcd over
four days, with three performances
each day, morning afternoon and cv-
cning. The first day. september 5th,
was Indian Day which began at 10
a. m, with the formal announcement
Of the opening OF the 2O0th Annual
Fiesta by the Royal Alferez. in the
person OF Major Norman /. King, al
ter which the Indian Governors an
uounccd the participation OF their
tribes, The Governor and Command
cr-in-Chief, with his staff and entour-
age then took station in the reviewing
stand while the band played Hail to
the Chief Then came the Spectac-
ular Pageant, The First American
Democracy in which the participants
included Indians from the Pueblos of
Zuni, Cochiti, Jemez, San lldefonso,
Santa Clara, and Tcsuquc, led by their
respective Governors, and Captain Don
Ga per Castano dc Sasa, officers and
soldiers. After an intcrmiSsion Tor
lunch, the Indian Governor with his
captain took charge of the cere-
monies which consisted of Ceremonial
and War Dances by the various tribes
and several beautiful vocal selections
by Princess Tsianina.
The second day, De Vargas Day,
opened as did the first day, with the
arrival OF the Governor and Com
mandcr-in-Chi and staff. After these
dignitarics had taken their places in
the reviewing stand, the Royal Alfe-
and his two aids made formal an
nounccment of the Original Ordinance
of A. d. l7l2, whereby the recon-
quest of the Province of New Mexico
vas TO be annually celebrated. The
Spectacular Pageant which then en-
tered the Concourse, passed in re-
view with ceremonies as they occurred
at the time OF the Re-conquest in A.
d. 1898.
Another Grand Pageant opened the
program for the afternoon, this time
depicting the Governor of the Pueblo
IF San Juan and members of his tribe
formal visit TO the Spanish
Governor and Captain General, upon
which occasion they swore allegiance
o the Spanish Crown. Following this
ceremony came music by the band
md Spanish and Indian selections by !
he Fiesta Chorus, Indian solos by y
Princess Tsianina, and Ceremonial .
Dances by the Indians of Tesuque and
Clara Pueblos. ,
The evening program for De Var .
gas Day was especially interesting, the j.
audience being taken back two hun q.
lrcd years and allowed to look in" at J.
n Evening Reception and Entertain e
ncnt at the Governors Palace in the
Sth century. The guests begin to o
rrivc and are welcomed by the Gov u
and Captain General and their ;
Then COM the entertainers ,
nd we are held for the rest OF the L
vening, entranccd by the beautiful o
Ianccs and vocal and instrumental p
lusic. 1t seems all the more realistic
hen we realize that it is being staged
II the very spot, yes, at the entrance e.,
the identical building in which such o..
cCoptiouS and entertainments were :,
to be held by the Spanish Ter I.
Governors who occupied the 4,
.alacc during the 18th century.
The third day was Spanish Amcri- g.
an Day and opened with a brief His a..
Prologue by Col. Jose D. Scna, n
,llowcd by a Spectacular Pageant re- Il
the Plaza a hundred years -.
go. at the time Of the celebration II
McVican Independence in Santa Fc +
1921. The balance of the day was f.,
evotcd to a very pleasing program
.miniscent Of that period. OF
Some celebrations fail + o sustain in +
rest as the last days arrive, but not :,
with the Santa Fe Fiesta, for the II
st day was even better than those
had gone before and left every m
Ie present feeling Il want TO be back m
year" 1t was Santa Fe Trail d.
ay and the Grand Spectacular Page Ia
I'd which constituted the morning CO
-ogram, was the most pretentious Of p,
e entire Fiesta. The Pageant was
TITLED The Commerce of the Prairi- of
," and presented the features of the
of this section by decades,
the middle of the 18th century
TO the present day of automo- -
les and 'a~eroplanes.
The matinee program opened with
l~ections by the band and the Fiesta =
followed by a number of In .
an Dances, including the famous ::