Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-05-15
NOTED GUESTS
AT PAGEANT
Many Distinguished Person
ages Will be Among
Richmond Visitors
Governor, Senators and Representa-
tiyes Form Welcoming Commit
tee

twined originally with early Virginia
End colonial history, and mayors of
some of the largest eastern cities have
been invited to be the guests of Vir-
ginia's great historical pagent, which
will open on Monday, May %, for a
week Among those asked are Mayor
J Hampton Moore Of Philadelphia,
/ Mayor John F. Hylan of New York
and the mayors of Baltimore, Newark
and Wilmington. The Secretary of
State and Mrs. Hughes, and the Sec
rotary of Commerce and Mrs Hoover
are among the national guests invited.
United States Senators Claude A.
Swanson and Carter Glass and Nir-
ginia's delegation of ten in the House
of Representatives, together with
Governor Trinkle and Mayor George
} Ainslie of this city, will join in well
coming the distinguished guests Of
Virginia during Pageant Week. The
beauty and wealth and southern chiv-
airy of the old Confederate capitol are
to scintilate for the guests of the
! Commonwealth.
Editors OF I ninety metropolitan
newspapers outside of the state and
of more than $50 Virginia and south
ern papers have also been asked to
witness as guests. the greatest out
door pagent ever given in America
The services of 1890 persons,
including actors and pantommists,
choruses and bands and float parad-
ers and jousting knights in costume
will be required to depict in a forty
acre amphitheatre the story of Eng
lish civilization in North America,
from the time of the Queen Bess
charter to Raleigh, down through
Indian. Revolutionary War, Civil War
and World War years.
The intensely dramatic episodes of
early American history are thrill
lingly pictured in scenes showing the
landing at jamestown, the Starving
Time, and the more gay romantic cpl
sodes of the coming of the maids aid
of Governor Spottswoods' bibulous
Knights of the Horseshoe. Then fol-
lows the French and indian War. The
Revolution is treated spectacularly in
several scenes such as Patrick Henry
in his famous speech, the instructions
to the Virginia delegates to vote in
the Continental Congress at Philadel-
phia for independence of the Surren-
der at Yorktown.
Early DAYS of the College Of Will
liam and Mary and Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia are among scores OF
stirring and amusing periods pictured
by the aid of a carload of lighting
effects and through the skilled pa
geantry Of Prof. Thomas Wood Stew
ems of the Carnegie Institute Of Tech
nology, PittSburg. Prof. Stevens will
be remembered as the author Of the
prehentious pagents gi"en at St.
Louis, Mo-, and at Newark, n. j.
Virginia is sparing no expense nor
effort to make the Virginia Historical
Pageant truly great educational and
richly colorful patriotic event as well
as an entertainment that in spots
suggests the circus. Six miles Of
tickets are being sold, More than
S250,000 is being spent on the per-
formances of the pageant itself, the
daily parades of floats, the corona
tions of queens and princesses, the
tournament of knights and the var
iouS balls to be given.
Washington, jefferson. Madison,
Monroe Sir John Smith, Pocahontas,
Powhattan and other principal fig
ures will stalk in and out of scenes,
many of the principal parts being
PLAYED nv the descedants of the origi-
nails The players and casts have
long been under intensive tutelage of
skilled actors and actresses and stage
directors. The heavy outdoor stage
settings of GREAT size. including ships
and loo cabins and sto"kades, are to
be shifted in darkness in 80 seconds
by means of underpinnin"s of rail
wav handcar trucks on rails.
Five cities of the state are sending
scores of snecial trains Of visitors on
the DAYS the particular histories of
these cities are celebrated by actors
trained in their own communities.
Norfolk has declared p municinal holt
day for Friday. Nav % and the live
" seaport town will close up shop
and visit Pichmos.l on masse as far
as the railroads. which are granting
Special rates for the entire week, can
handle the crowds
The PAGEANT proper. the daily
paradeS balls recentionS. concerts
and other social evcn'S of the week
are expected bv the nine railroads
serving Richmond and tho State. to
draw from 250O00 to 100000 visi-
tors here Virginians from all parts
of tho United States are making a
ve~itable Old Home Week Of it. too,
and are telegraphire and WRITING for
Accommodations. Five thousand Rich
mond families have offered quarters
in their homes, ut the request of the
PaPaent authorities. for the accom-
mediation of visitors from ont of the
city The manv hotels Of Richmond
have also been deluged with reserva-
tons
Alfred 7. du Pont and family of
Wilmington. Del. have taken a box
g" the entire week Of the Pageant.
NiS"orrt and Lady Nancy Asto~. the
latter havino once been member of
the "Third Street Cane" and one Of
The verv best known ton'boY in this
town. the notice of which kept a wary
eve on her irreurAssible mischief
maxine. EXPRESSED their deenest re-
"ret that they could not return to