White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-05-16

llegoricaI figure impersonated by Mrs
Marjorie Bacon Smith, will preside ovel
Of Of the WaIa Waiia Valley by summon.
| Ing the pageant actors to re-enact Its
| (2) NmbIe dancers will play an import.
ant part In the pageant episodes, notable
feature being the aIIegoricai presentation
| OF the massacre OF the Marcus Whitman
missionary party
| Ing In the West-wI!I be feature Of the
pioneer pageant during scene depicting
the coming OF the great wagon train of
1843.
~ The old form Of spreading the news
of old WaIla WaIIa after the arrival OF
the stagecoach-wlIl live again during the
| pageant.
(5) Signing Of the treaties at the great
Indian council with Governor Isaac Ste
| VEINS In 1855, will be one Of the import
ant pageant scenes. The role Of Cover r..
nor Stevens (center) will be. taken by
James Neal city attorney and president
Of the WaiIa Walla Chamber of Com i
'merce. s9t-s -t-s
| Epochal history of the Northwest,
from the coming of the Lewis and
Clark exploration party in 1905 to the
building Of the first Western railroad
in 1875, will be re-enecatd in a thrill
ing community drama May % and 20
at Walla Walla during presentation of
the second Pioneer pageant, "How the
West Was Won"
Last years pageant, presented by a
cast of 2,5O6 persons, was acclaimed
by the press Of the Northwest as one
of the most striking examples Of
Western community cooperation, and
this year, with 5000 participants, an
even more ambitious production is
contemplated.
Huge Pageant Field
The pageant is to be presented on a
field $50 feet In width and 1000 feet
in length-said to be the largest
pageant field in America. Thirty
thousand attended last year, and a
larger number Is expected this year.
The huge cast, assembled from the
city Of Walla Walla, the surrounding
farming communities, and the neigh
boring states Of Oregon and Idaho,
has been rehearsing for weeks under
the direction of Percy j. Burrell Of
Boston, Acknowledgements pageant di-
rector. The number includes 800
adult choristers, 900 juvenile singers,
400 dancers, ESQ Indians, a 75-piece
band and a 65-piece orchestra.
Persons from every walk of life
have enlisted to participate in the
pageant, Walla Walla's mayor, Ben
Hill, being one Of the number. Esther
Motanic, daughter of one Of the
Umatilla tribes richest leaders, is to
appear as Sacajawea, guide Of the
Lewis and Clark exploring party, and
Walla Walla's leading clergymen, at
torneys, business men, educators and
lust folks" will be numbered among
the performers.
Dr.. Penrose Is Author
DR.. Stephen B. L. Penrose, presi-
dent of Whitman College, Is author
of the pageant, and while no organiza-
ton is to take part as unit, nearly
them re-enacted within short dis.
lance of the places where they origi-
nally transpired, with descendants of
the pioneers playing the roles of their
ancestors.
The pageant will open with the COM
ing of the Lewis and Clark party,
while the second scene will represent
the Northwest under control Of the
British Hudson's Bay Company fur
traders.
In the latter scene, Sam Pambrun
of Athens, Ore, will appear In the
role of his grandfather original fac
tor Of the Hudson's Bay post, who
greeted the Marcus Whitman mission.
every civic, social and religious group
has pledged support. Whitman Col
lege participants include nearly 200
singers, dancers and actors from the
student body and faculty, as we'll as
pageant dance and music directors.
The American Legion Is RESPONSE
BILE for enlisting so horsemen to ap.
pear az Colonel George Wrights dra.
goons; the Kiwanis Club will provide
singers to act as French voyageurs;