San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-19
PAGEANT WILL
Be VIEWED BY
HER MAJESTY
Final Performance of
School Children Thurs
day Night.
HAVE SWIMMING MEET
Dedication at San Pedro
Park at 4 O'Clock in
Afternoon. ,<
HAVE SWIMMING MEET
Thursday Afternoon.


Dedication of swimming pool at San
Pedro Park at 4 O'Clock.
School children's pageant at s
O'Clock.
Attendance of Queen and Court at
0 o'clock.
wortham's show, Main and Mill
tary plazas.
Friday.
Battle Of Flowers parade at 4
o'clock.
Wortham's shows, Main and Mill
tary plazas.
with the first public appearance of
Her Majesty, Olive Louise of the
House of Martindale at the pageant
Thursday night, when with all of the
splendor of her court she will appear
eat the final performance of the
pageant, 1.-The Awakening of San An
tonio;" and the dedication of San
Antonio's 100000 municipal swim
ming pool, one of the finest in the
South. the 1923 Fiesta San Jacinto
is we'll on its way.
There will be no parade Thursday
but the climax will come Friday with
the famous Battle of Flowers parade,
the cream of the Fiesta celebration.
The Longhorn band will play at
the pageant when the Queen arrives.
A special act will be presented during
the pageant by Miss Lowery of
Laredo. who will give a Spanish
dance in costume.
At 4 o'clock Thursday, San An
tonio's new municipal bathing pool
will be formally dedicated with
life saving drill and bathing beauty
revue. The pool has been in use
but its formal dedication is to be one
of the big events in the 1923 Fiesta.
Swimming contests, the bathing
beauty revue and a demonstration in
Red Cross life saving work will be
combined to make the event long
memorable as Fiesta feature.
Give Swimming Program.
The program announced by Win
chester Kelso Jr.. G. C. Bonner and
Ralph Durkee is as follows:
Music-Banda Juvenil.
Observation-Disclosures Of pool
and bath house to people Of San An
tonic, Claude V. Birkhead, president
Chamber of Commerce: o. b. Black,
mayor of San Antonio, and Arthur
A. Seeligson. Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Acceptance, Ray Lambert,
commissioner of parks.
Judges of events-Mayor Black,
William H. Furlong, Casey Hirsh-
field, E. S. Garrett. A. A. Seeligson
and ]. Raphael Riley.
Beauty revue-Prizes First. bath
ing suit: second. silk hose; third, cap.
Swimming events-50 yard dash
for boys under Is: prize, bathing
suit, Lee floater: so yard dash for
girls under Is: prize, bathing suit,
Lee floater: IS yard dash for men.
prizes. tennis shoes: IS yard dash for
women, prize. tennis shoes.
Fancy diving (three trials each)
women, prize, bathing shoes and
stockings; men, prize, bathing cap.
Relay race-Four laps, of so yards
each. Main Avenue High School,
Breckenridge High School, West Tex
as Military Academy and San An
tonic Academy. Prize, cup.
Life saving demonstration.
Expect Big Crowd.
Slight mistakes of the children at
the opening performance of the
pageant, "The Awakening of Spring"
were ironed out at the second pre-
sentation Wednesday night at the
huge Romano street auditorium. A
beautiful spectacle told the story of
the passing of winter and the arrival
Of spring, with small children dane
ing and swaying, holding the audi
ence in Q grip by their wonderful in
depreciation of the most beautiful sea-
son Of the year.
Children, dressed in the varied
plumage Of birds and flowers, danced
to the beautiful strains of the spring
song. Tiny children danced in a
manner rarely seen in an amateur
pageant. Spanish dancers danced in
a manner that took the audience to
the haciendas in old Mexico, and
Spain. where the natives dance to the
beautiful music Of the guitar.
No expense was spared in selecting
beautiful costumes that bring ont
every color of the changing seasons.
The largest crowd of the week Is ex-