San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25

| Inc problem still TO raise
The banner of the righteous and the
brave.
Tonight we give our fancy rein
OF Arthur's tragic end
We beg to make amend
And will suppose he has returned
again.
With Modred slain and rebels crushed,
To rule his court once more
And knightly fellowship restore,
| l, Merlin, wave a wand-'tis done!
To these embattled halls we've asked
Our fairest daughters blessed,
In regal splendor dressed,
The Court of Chivalry, as Of today.
But just a secret word, good friends
The modern damsel Of her knights
Has asked for certain rights,
When, truth to tell, she's taken all!
SO it will scarce produce surprise
To find queen enthroned
And Galahad bemoaned.
In humble background, paying court.
Thus runs our prologue Please
Imagine this our Table Round,
Where noble deeds resound,
The talk of tournament and Holy
Grail.
Where mans word is God in man.
If danger turks unseen
Still honor reigns supreme,
l speak you welcome and your patience
pray.
Welcomes Out-of.TOwn Court.
Then he welcomed the out-of-town
court with this introduction:
"Then brake and blushed the morning
of the jousts
! And this was called the Tournament of
Youth
For we had sent the heralds out
| And bold Sir Bedivere and brave Ger
amt,
Have summoned from the far off cities
of our realm
Ladies and esquires to our court.
The which l now announcer"
Then as announced by Merlin and
as summoned by the trumpet blast
from his heralds, the out-of-town rep
resentatives appeared, coming through
the audience on the raised platform
and being met at the entrance to the
throne room by their knights, in the
following order:
Lady Minnie of the House of Mech
am, Duchess of Fort Worth; maid of
honor. Lady Margaret Meecham Duke
Glen B. Smith, Esquire John B. Haw.
ley.
Lady Nell of the House of Nolte,
Duchess Of Seguin; maid of honor.
Lady Jane Meyer: Duke Sam Capers,
Esquire Dick Willis.
Lady Bess of the House Of Gilbert,
Duchess of Austin; maid of honor,
Lady Bess Tobin; Duke William But
Ter, Esquire Fritz Gydeson.
Lady Laura Lee of the House of
Graves, Duchess of Galveston; maid
of honor. Lady Margaret Hereford /;
Duke Waldo Pauls, Esquire Lieut.
George P. Howell.
Lady Helen of the House OF Rufus
Duchess of the University; maid OF
honor. Lady Zetta ,Alonzo; Duke Mau-
Lady Virginia of the House of
Brown, Duchess of Houston: maid of
honor, Lady. frankie Maud Carroll /;
Duke Edward Langston. Esquire Pres
ton Moore.
Lady Beatrice of the House of Hen
~. Duchess of Del Rio; maid of honor,
Lady Elizabeth Foxes; Duke Eddie
Compton. ESQUIRE Parke Houston.
Lady Phyllis of the House of Cor
buster, Duchess of the Army: maid of
honor. Lady Helena Luke; Duke Lieut..
Rex f. Chandler, Esquire Lieut.. Shelf
field Edwards.
San Antonio Daughters Arrive.
And then after the out-of-town court
had taken their station in semi circle
on either side of the royal throne, the
duchesses of the realm. the royal house.
hold of Her Majesty. the Queen of
love and Beauty. San Antonio's
daughters were welcomed by Merlin in
these words:
To cross the siege Perlious, and to
come
Into the presence of their Queen
In modesty and stateliness withal
On San Antonio's daughters now I
call!
And then the trumpets sounded in
royal flourish and Merlin was heard
saying:
Her sacred beauty hath enchanted
heaven
And had she lived before the siege of
Troy
Helen, whose beauty summoned Greece
to arms
And drew a thousand ships to Tenedos
Had not been named in Homer's Iliad
Lady Bonney of the House of Venable,
Duchess of York.
More Medieval Gowns.
Lady Bonney Of the House of Ven
able, Duchess of York, was charm
ing in her medieval gown of tur-
quoise blue satin brocaded in silver
roses. The gown was dewy with
brilliants. The skirt draped to one
side was caught with a large silver
rose embroidered in brilliants and
pearls. The side drape of the skirt
| finished in an artistic fan-shapcd
train of the same material lined in
blue and orchid. The train, too. was
encrusted in cleaning briliants with
large silver rose with huge petals
embroidered in pearls and brilliants.
4 flat rose further IN the train was
also of silver. The train was edged
in pearl design and finished in q
| border of lavender and rose chiffon.
The bottom of the train was a SHIN
mering lattice work of pearls AMI
rhinestones. A single band of emerald
| jewels edged the train and small
| Jewels of green emhrnidernd the hot.