New-York tribune., 1921-11-07
America Poetic Pageant
Will BE Presented at Vic
tory Ball at Waldorf-As-
toria Eve of Armistice Day
Kings Co. Legion Plans Fete:
Wounded Men to Conduct
Dance at N. Y. IT,: White
Plains Honors Heroes

A victory ball and pageant will be
given at the Waldorf Astoria on Ar
mistice Eve, November 10, by the
American Legion Victory Ball Com
mittee. America" the poetic pageant
created by Isabel Lowden. sister OF ex-
Governor Frank o. Lowden of Illinois,
will be one of the brilliant fetes.
President Harding is honorary chair
man of the committee, Walter l..
Scott executive chairman, Mrs. vii
liam c. Hays chairman of the execu-
tive committee on arrangements, and
the committee on invitations and
guests is headed by Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid, Mrs. August Belmont. Mrs. Will
liam Kinnicutt Draper and Miss Ruth
Morgan. The purpose of the commit
tee is to initiate with this event year
ly celebration of like kind which will
not only be national tribute bat an
annual source of income to Americas s
disabled veterans.
who have accepted invitations are ] ohm
w. Weeks. Secretary of War; Edwin
DENLY, Secretary of the Navy, and
others distinguished for war service.
Special invitations have been sent 10
General John J. Pershing, commander
IN chief of the American armies; Ad-
miral David Beatty, of the British navy.
and representatives of the army. navy,
Marine Corps and Red Cross.
The cast of symbolical characters in
the pageant is AS follows: The Spirit
OF Italy. Frances. Carson; The Spirit
of Spain, Mary Nash; The Spirit or
IL, 10, - -
Great Britain, Violet Kemble Cooper;
The Spirit of France. Claire Eames;
The Spirit of Holland. Helen Nickel
lar; The Spirit of Home, Belle Ben
nett; The Spirit of the New Born Ma
tion, Eva Le' Gallenne; The Spirit Of
National Dignity, Josephine Drake; the
Spirit of Brotherly Love, Chrystal
Herne; The Spirit of Protection of thv
Weak. Janet Beecher; The Spirit Of
the Oppressed Of All Lands. Dorothy
DonneHy; The Pioneer Spirit. Adrienne
Ryan: The Spirit of Sacrifice, Julia
Arthur; Victory, Marjorie Rambcau;
The Angel of Peace, Elsie Ferguson.
Historical Characters Cast
The historical cast in the pageant,
given in the order in which it appears,
is as follows:
,
Indian Chief. Chester Hale: Bishop Las
casas. Alien Pollock; Americus yespucis,
Tyrone Power; Sir Francis Drake, Norman
Trevor; Sir Walter Raleigh Edmund
Lowe. Champlain. Cyril Keightley La
Sale Ian Keith; Father Marquette, Frank
Conroy: Henry Hudson. Lynn OverInan,
Lord Baltimore, John Drew John Smith.
Lawrence GrossInith Pocahontas, Rose
Rolanda the Young Planters, Frank
Craven, Joseph Santley, Ernest Truck; the
beautiful Respectful Maidens. Marian
coakley, Edith King, Vivian Martin: Pill
xrims and Furitans, Ivan Simpson, Harry
c. Brown. Frank Reicher. Harry Mes
tayer. Robert Ames, Malcolm duncan,
Lotus Robb. Hazel Dean. June Walker,
Adrienne Morrison Margaret wycherly.
Torrehce; John Winthrop, Lee Baker;
John Elliott, John Holiday; John Adams
Hugh DiIlman; Priscilla Alden, h ellen
Hayes: William Penn, Howard Lang:
Roger Williams. Gordon Ash; Peter Stuy-
Yesant, Reginald Barlow: James Ogle-
thorp, Ernest Glendennng; Ola Man, John
Flood; Middle-Aged Man Harry Dayen-
port: Young Man. Neil Martin
BENJAMIN Franklin, George Fawcett :
Patrick Henry, William Hodge; Nathan
Hale, Jerome Patrick John Paul Jones'
Courtenay Foote: Samuel Adams Rober rt
Kendall; Thomas Jefferson Ernest Law
ford; England Mrs. Leslie Garter: Scot
land, Sir Harry Lauder; Ireland the
Irish Players: France. Lionel Barrymore
with Irene Fenwick Doris Rankin and the
entire cast of The Claw: Relgtum
Bstelle Winwood; Swift tzerland. Irene Fen
wick: italy, Adele Klaer; Hungary. Joseph
Schtldkraut with Helen Westley, Hortense