The Washington times., 1922-05-21
STAGE ALL SET
FOR VIRGINIA s
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Richmond Decorated and
Crowds Arriving for Big
2 Outdoor Spectacle.
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4,soo ACTORS TO TAKE PART
Notable Scenes in Colonial His
= tory to Be Depicted in
s. Night Displays.

~ RICHMOND, Va, May 20.-
With all plans virtually complete
and public interest at the highest
pitch, the heads of the Virginia
: Historical Pageant Association are
ready for the opening Monday of
what they confidently believe will
be the greatest pageant ever pre-
sented in America.
'.. No.. Parades Every Day.
The performances will be staged
:. In a great open.air amphitheater on
the nights Of May % to 2s inclusive.
The city is handsomely decorated for
the event and crowds of visitors al
? ready are arriving to be on hand
for the street parade on Monday.
This parade will be repeated daily
during the week.
'#r The parade orders have been
issued and they call for the follow
: ing lines Of march:
p. Monday - Grace street. from
Ninth street to Second street; Sec
'ond street, from Grace street 10
y Franklin street; Franklin street,
. from Second street to Lombardy
/. street; north side OF Monument
avenue, from Lombardy street to the
Boulevard.
Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday,
o Friday and Saturday-Grace, from
= the Boulevard to Belvidere street:
, Belvidere street. from Grace street
! TO Broad street; south side of Broad
, street. from Belvidere street to
Eleventh street: Eleventh street,
= ofr fn :
(; Capitol street, from Eleventh street
= to Ninth street; Ninth street, from
Capitol street to Grace street; Grace
street, from Ninth street to Second
q street; Second street, from Grace
street to Franklin street; from Sec-
ond street to Lombardy street north
a side; Monument avenue, from I'om-
hardy street to the Boulevard.
Many Notable Floats.
',r Chairman Ruffin. of the general
float committee, says the floats will
be entirely up to expectations.
The first fire engine at Alex
andria in the colonial days will he
shown in the parade with forty men
operating II dressed after the
fashion Of the people of that time.
Among the most notable Of the
. floats mentioned by Chairman Ruff
= fin Is that from Roanoke depicting
Daniel Boone, Indian fighters,
Indians and frontiersmen.
Rehearsals have been in progress
. for many days. The services of
4,s00 persons, including actors and
~ pantomimists, choruses and bands
and float paraders and joustins
knights in costume will be required
j.. to depicit in a forty-acre amphi-
RI theater the story Of English civili-
zation in North America, from the
time of the Queen Bess charter to
Raleigh, down through Indian, ReVo'
tionary War, Civil War and World
/. War years.
" The intensely dramatic episodes OF
= early American history are thrilling
: " pictured in scenes showing the
landing at jamestown, the Starving
Time, and the more gay and romantic
episodes of the coming Of the maids
end Of Governor Spotswoods bibu-
lous Knights of the Horseshoe. Then
follows the French and Indian War
The Revolution is treated spectacu'
larly in several scenes such as Pat
rick Henry in his famous speech, the
instructions to the Virginia dele
gates to vote in the Continental Con-
gress at Philadelphia for. independ-
ence, George Rogers Clark's expedt'
ton and a military spectacle OF the
surrender Of Yorktown.
Early days of the College Of VII
liam and Mary and of the University