The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-28
TO CROWN QUEEN
Special Event Will Be Put ON at
Pageant of Progress.
Gov. Allen and Miss DSchuden
to Lead Grand March.
TO TAKE PLACE IN AUDITORIUM
Many Other Plans for Big En-
tertainment Program.
WOman's Club of Topeka in
Charge of Saturdays Show.

Henry J. Allen. Mss Florence
Dschuden. queen Of the Pageant OF
Progress. will lead the grand march
OF the pageant ball in the auditorium
at 10 O'Clock tonight.
Miss Dschuden viii be formally
crowned queen OF the pageant during
the progress of the great historical
spectacle which begins al $3.50 O'Clock
in the auditorium. Immediately after
the close of the spectacle the floor Of
the auditorium will be cleared of
seats. the bands will crash into the
stately fanfare Of a grand march and
the ball of the Pageant of Progress
viii be on. All the beauty and gal
lantry of Topeka will be represented
in the couples which will follow in the
wake OF the flower crowned queen OF
the pageant and the governor Of kan
sa.
After the formal grand march has
broken UP into the maze of Waiting
couples. bands and orchestras viii fill
the air of the entire court OF COM
merce with music and the dancing
VIII be extended TO include the whole
enclosure. which for the last two days
has been devoted to the big spring
display The auditorium. the motor
building. and the corridor of the
court of commerce VIII be but one
extended dance floor. It is estimated
that several thousand couples can be
accommodated without crowd.ng.
Historical Pageant Tonight.
The great historical spectacle pre-
pared under the personal direction OF
J. A. Darnaby and Miss Helen Runyan
Will be staged again ut $3.50 o'clock
tonight As a part of this spectacle
Miss Dschuden will be crowned
queen Of the pageant by Mayor Her
bert J. Corwine Miss Dschuden has
invited her fellow contestants for the
queenship of the pageant to act as
maids of honor in the coronation cere-
mony and in the festivities which fol-
low.
Noman's Club i'm Charge Tomorrow.
Altho two days of rain have some
what dampencd the enthusiasm of
spectators in the various exhibits. Yet
the weather has not proved deter
rent to spectators at either the after
noon entertainment features or the
nightly historical spectacle in the Pa
geant of Progress The kiWanis club,
the Rotary club and the Cooperative
club each deserve high praise for the
quality Of the entertainments they
have put on the first three afternoons
of the Pageant of Progress. The Wo-
mans club of Topeka is in charge OF
the program for tomorrow afternoon
and the program announced upholds
the precedent set by the other clubs
So far as the Pageant of Progress
spectacle itself is concerned persons
who have seen it say it stands un-
equalled in the pageant history OF
Topeka The spectacle goes off in
ra pid fire order and the various
epochs of history pictured by the en-
tertaiuers are exhibited with the
smooth assurance of professionals. J.
A. Darnaby. director of The pageant, |
today declared that the outstanding
success of the spectacle is due en-
tirely to the willing and unremitunS
work OF the cast and he expressed his |
thanks for their efforts and his sin |
cere belief that they Will permit no |
other activity to let the last presenta- |
tons of the spectacle fall below the /
standard already set
Darnaby said he is counting on |
every member of the big cast staying
on the job until the last curtain has
fallen on the last act of the last pre-
seDtation Of the spectacle
Big Plans for Tonight.
The exhibitors in the court Of COM /
merce are making big special plans /
for entertaining a big crowd tonight /
tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow 4
night They are not discOuraG ed after 4
TWO days of rain and instead of dis !
manthng their displays they have util- /
lied the time in augmenting and en-
larginE them Persons attending the |
Pageant of Progress tonight and to-
morrow will see n bigger and better /
exhibit of Topeka's trad eWOrthtneSs
than was on hand when the first gates
OF the Pageant of Progress opened |
Wednesday noon.
The entertainment program pre-
pared by the Woman's club to be given
in the auditorium at 3 o'clock tomor
row afternoon includes:
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Theo J. Jenkins.
Violin soio.-.--- Prof r j. kolbaOa
Canon Zetta. DE Ambrosio
A Lullaby .-....-......Sc Schubert Elman
Address. .-................'.Ci Civic Progress
Vocal solo.-..-.-....-...- Miss Ruth Tandy
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