The Democratic advocate., 1922-06-02
PROGRESS OF THE
PAGEANT
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TEN THOUSAND VISITORS EXPECTED
FIVE TRIBES OF RED MEN TO Be IN
LINE.

The Mecca of Maryland, Westmins-
! ter, will be visited during Commence
ment days by a multitude of the
friends of Western Maryland College
for the event that will add a glory to
that honorable and serviceable insti-
tuition, of a kind different from any
thing that has added to its credit in
the past. These are days of pageants.
Western Maryland College will be
found in the very front line of this
highly skilled form of presenting his
torical and picturesque subjects.
Basket parties are being framed in
all parts of the county and it looks as
though there would be almost cessa-
tion of all other business md enter
prise in order to fill up Westminster
with an appreciatiVe audience for the
stimulating pageant The Sheathing
of the Sword" The Order of Red Men
have sent word that there will be five
tribes. including the MonteZumas and
AZrecs. and others, to come by truck
loads from Baltimore and Pikesville.
Can some organization match that?
Hampstead has promised to turn out
in full. Don't let Hampstead beat some
other town. Some of the preachers
from Baltimore are planning to bring
their congregations on an old-fashion-
ed straw-ride, having pleasures while
coming and going as well as at the
pageant.
Preparations for this event long
since passed the stage of experiment.
Like that man in the gospel parable
who said, Come for all things are now
ready" Western Maryland College
sends out its invitation to all Mary
land and nearby states, to its Alumni
of all the United States and to the
friends of it's students to come
to the city of the. Blue Ridge foothills
for the afternoon of June 10. The pa
geant will take place at 3.15 p. m. on
that date. Il
Together with a multitude of mett
who will illustrate the costumes OF
the ages past. as well as the beautiful
costumes. pastime and Ideals OF the
lands of other days, the beautifully and
gracefully garbed women of the pag-
cant will set forth one great theme,
great in its interest, in its beauty, in
its history and in its ideals-the
theme of Peace.
Multitudes of persons now know Of
this pageant one of the most ambitious
ever undertaken by any institution or
community; so that on June the tenth
automobiles and buses will converge.
toward Westminster, meeting there
and assuring those who have SO loyal
ly and with such enthusiasm worked
for the pageant, an audience vast in
numbers and enthusiasm.
There has been a rising tide of in
terest in this Western Maryland af
fair and echoes of this interest have
come in from every part OF Maryland
and entire territory reached by the
College. 1t is now only a matter of
gathering together this mounting tide
of interest in the event that will pre-
sent in a series of episodes, living and
moving. the subject closest to the
hearts of all.
All Western Maryland. particularly,
is alive with expectation and the
counties of the Western shore may be
counted upon to do their full part.
The Eastern shore is little more re-
mote but it is close in ties OF interest
and will be strongly represented at the
pageant 1t is fact that some OF the
leading professional pageantry promo
ters of the country are looking toward
"The Sheathiug Of the Sword" for new
ideas.
Tickets for sale at the Rexall and
Shaw's Drug stores.
A general rehearsal OF the Pageant
with the band is called for Monday,
June 5. at 5.45 p. m, on the new ath-
letic field. A full attendance is re-
quested.