Evening star., 1925-04-24
PLAYERS DEPICT
TOWN OF GEORGE"
Great National Characters in
Pageant Representing Evo-
luton of Nations Capital.

Great national characters who play
ed dramatic roles in the settlement of
the Town of George. from which has
grown the National Capital, were
brought to life last night when a
great cast, including many of their
descendants, some of them garbed in
the self-same garments worn by the
colonists. presented The Pageant of
Georgetown in Christ Church Hall,
Thirty first and o streets.
There was laughter in many of the
scenes depicted and there were tears
and many thrill of pride. for in the
audience sat some Of those who
earlier had taken part in Civil War
incidents and the Georgetown As
sembly in Linthicum Hall in 1895.
which were enacted in the pageant.
This pageant. one OF the most am
hitious ever attempted here by anna
teurs was written and directed by
Mrs Alice Coyfe Torbert. a cast of
more than $50 took part and large
group of pageant committees. includ-
ing many prominent in Washington $
social and business circles, aided In
The preparation OF the pageant.
THE pageant was opened with Don
Melendeth planting the banner of
SDain at AXacon and its subsequent
obstruction by Indians. Capt. John
Smith. dealing with the Indians at
'Pota wa makee, and Capt. Fleet, de-
7ained by the Necostins and the
General Assembly of Maryland, were
depicted.
IA number OF the descendants OF
George Beall and George Gordon,
from whom the land was obtained for
the town. took part in the second
episode. which described the evolution
under the Georges.
Pre-Revolution Events.
Events leading up to the ReVolu-
tton were shown in colorful scenes on
the. Potomac River front heal @
Gardens Inspection House, now
Wisconsin avsnue and NJ street. and
,oh the portico of the Robert Peter
mansion and in a reproduction Oh
tewn fair held in 1866.
scenes in Stuer's Tavern carried
the drama down to lSoo' Wheh
Georcetown came under the Juris
diction of Congress following a period
under Maryland.
beart Mary Taloe Lloyd, as they
n,ight have been seen in Maryland
erarden were shown in scene In the
fourth episode This was followed oy
the ball held July 7, 1923, IN celepra-
lion of the opening OF the CheSa pedhe Z
and Ohio N'lndl. Anu li'ii HNSi4N'' W
the crinoliue DAYS when Georgetown
tcltizens in this border territory leIl
10 go North and South to take uI'
arms separating brothers and friends
in rbe civil War. The pageant closed
with the Georgetown Assembly
Among the large cast were ReV.
pincknev Nroth. Rev. Henry l.. Dur
r7nt \. Worthington Dorsey, Freder-
icL Bradley, Fentaine Bradley, Iench
Marve, William. Beall, F. c. Ropes,
He. Torbert, l.. l.. Reeves, stuart
WIGHT. Dorsey w. Hyde, Jr.' John
Blake Gordon, Henry S. Matthews,
= N Talcott. Lawrence Lee, Comdr.
Hewitt Dr. Shippen, William Wood
Vile. Cassin Shoeplaker. Walter Peter,
1r.: Horace Torbei't, jr.; Frank Hanna,
capt Hillman, Mr. and Mrs. Percy
Thompson. Capt. ana Mrs. Noolworth:
MIR. and Mrs. John Hanna, DR.. and
Mrs. Robert Beale, Mrs. William
Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Rawlins Hume,
Miss Rose Mary Ball. Miss Mary Stu
ls.rt. Miss Frances Blake. Miss Eliza
l,eth Dorsey. Miss Mary. Bradley. Miss
I'olIy Blunt, Mrs. John Ihlder, L. lam