Evening star., 1924-05-18
PLAN final PAGEANT
FOR SATURDAY NIGHT
Community Centers Will Present
Historical Program Again
! This Week.
WILL STAGE COLLEGE CITY,
"Pack Your Trouble, Take Them te
White House." Also Planned.

The community CenterS department
of the d. C. public schools has pre-
scented three, in their series of histor-
ical neighborhood pageants, planned Tor
this spring, " Along the Water Front
having been staged last night at Hine
Junior High School by the Southeast
Center. following The College City"
Friday night at Johnson Powell Cen
ter and In the Shadow of the Dome
Thursday night at New Eastern, by
the East Washington Center.
THE College City" will be pre-
sented again Tuesday night, at Will
son Normal Auditorium, by the vii.
son Normal and Johnson toWSli
Centers, and Saturday night. IN the
auditorium at Central High Schooi
at SIS o'clock, the final pageant OF
this season will be given under the
direction of Marie Moore Forrest, as
sisted by directors of all the nelsh.
borhood pageants, with the :; o
Marine Band orchestra, proNldlns
special and incidental music OF the
program.
Three or four scenes from each OIL
the neighborhood pageants Will com
pose the big historical pageant OF
Washington. the Eternal CITY at
Central High School, with the same
I.lStS lndI DItStEltu lllclll III 'iiN''
own communities, with the same cos
tune committees, the same general
management and the same general
admission fee of % cents at the door.
An epilog has been written especially
for the pageant at Central High by
Gideon A. Lyon, president of the Arts
Club of Washington. called Pack Up
Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag
and Take Them to the White House
and will be read on Saturday night
by Florence Lyon, who will be assist
ed iE the enactment of the scene by
members Of the Local Talent Club of
Thomson Center, Mrs. A. j. Driscoll,
secretary.
"Shadow of the Dome"
Scenes to be given in the. final
SHADOW of the Dome'D George
Washington's Vision Laying of the
Corner Stone of the Capitol" THE
House in Session" Inaugural Ball
of President Madison Quarrel of
John Randolph and Henry Clay" and
The Old Benning Race Track" !:
tfrom Along the Water Front")
''The Massacre of the Analostans, y
Lady Washington at Christ Church
and AL Aboard for Old Point
Jefferson Visits the First Public
School in the District" Donation of
John Quincy Adams and John c. Cal
houn Toward Columbian University"
"A War Hospital THE Sun Dial at
Meridian Hill Farm and Horace
Several episodes will also be pre-
sented at Central High School on Sat
urday night, that have not as yet been
given by any center although they are
parts of neighborhood pageants to be
produced in the early fall by the com
munIty centers They include Might
Raids on the Whitney Plantation by
the Park View Center: Scenes From
me me Battle Of Fort Stevens" by the
Drinking Manor in Lilac Time" by the
Chevy Chase Center; also Dolly Madi-
sons Republican Court" and THE
Treaty of Ghent,.' by group of the
Children of the American Revolution.
directed by Mrs. Sawtelle, and "Presi-
dent Adams Takes Possession of the
Capital" by a second group of c. a. r.
under Mrs. HolZberg's direction.
''The College City,
On Tuesday night, the performance
of THE College City" at Wilson
auspices of general committee of
the center, representing a large number
OF organizations in the Columbia
Heights and Mount Pleasant sections
of the city, Herbert L. Davis as chair
man, and a. B. Carty as vice chairman
and including Miss a. NJ. Goding, prin-
cipal of Wilson Normal School, Mrs
Fl. r. Hunt, Harry w. keefe, Mrs. +. c.
Mrs. Ida Philipitt, r. F. Cook. Mrs.
Birtwell, Miss Agnes Thorpe and Miss
Sallie Barthalow. The committee on
Mrs. O.. NJ; Moore, Mrs. L. +. Elicit,
Mitchell. Mrs. James Ernest Smith for
Wilson Normal. and Mesdames c. Fl.
Baker. SydenStricker. Beall. Stuart
Metzgar, Rand and Simonton for John
son Powell.
Assisting Mrs. Kabler and Mrs.
Hunter in this production are Mrs.
Miss Florence F'enton, Miss Evelyn
Davis Miss Katherine Whitley, Miss
Martha Durham and Miss Helen keis-
ter, as special assistant to Mrs. For
rest and Miss Schreiner in all these
community pageants. The U. S. Navy
Yard Band Orchestra, directed by
Band Leader Charles Benter, will rem
der the musical program in connec-
ton with The College City"
"The Toy Shop
The same cast of principals will ap-
pear in the various scenes as on the
OF community activities will be those
at Wilson Normal center including
drills by Girl Scouts, Troops IL and
20; Boy Scouts, Troop IL, Recreation
club OF the center, and members of
the kindergarten Club in a dance
sketch called THE Toy Shop" with a.
cast including Helen Decker, Daisy
Mace. Helen Fort, Matalia Seldorff,
Frances BARLEY, Lyman s. Young,
Paul Armstrong, Morrison Smith, Ed
mond McDonough, Eulalie Jones, Au-
brey kneeSe, Aileen OConnor, Ger
maine McDonough, Charlotte Decker
and Dorothy New.
A great number of local organiza-
uons have some time ago appointed
committees to cooperate with the
community centers department in the
production of the series of historical
pageants of Washington, the federal
city; and it is hoped by the directors
of the community center depart
ment, that these committees will be
present at the final pageant, at Gen.
trail High School auditorium next
Saturday night as guests of the di-
rectors. Special invitations are being
sent to the members of the commit
tees by Mr.. Forrest, director of the
Il