The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
CITY KIDDIES in
PLAY MARDI GRAS
800 Children from All Play
grounds to Give Monster
Pageant Friday.
AT NASH STADIUl

what is nalleQ as Lhe host eiapVE-
ate demonstration and exhibition OF
the work that is done at Kenosha's
Fairgrounds is to be featured in
monster pageant and mardi gras to be
held in tAe Nash Stadium at 1880 o.
clock Friday evening of this week. In
this exhibition there will be featured
over 800 children representing picked
stars from each of the city's eight
Fairgrounds, and each of these 300
children will present some phase of an
organized activity such as is spon-
sored on the Fairgrounds throughout
the summer.
The plans for this affair are now
being completed, according to George
E. Bickford, city recreation director,
and every attempt is being made 20
make Friday nights celebration the
climax of the playground season, and
one in which every parent who sends
child to the municipal playing spaces
will be proud.
On Illuminated Field.
The exhibition will be held in front
of the Nash grandstand and the Ke-
Nash-ARclub has arranged for a series
Of fiood-lights which will turn the
darkness on the field into daylight.
The Nash band has been secured to
furnish the music for the occasion.
In the program which each one of
the playground supervisors shares in
preparing, children between the ages
of five and 20 will appear, each repre-
senting his playground and neighbor-
hood center. There are to be physical
demonstrations as exemplified in ath-
letic work on the Fairgrounds, aero
batic stunts, tumbling acts, pyramid
acts, athletic contests, Indian stunts
with the Riddles dressed up as Indians
and cowboys with war paint an ever
thin.
Preceding the evenings festivities
will be huge grand march in which
all of the children will take part, and
in which will be drawn all of the APP
paratus which will figure in the page
ant-a colorful panorama Of playground
activities, led by the Nash band, serv-
ices of which have been donated for
the evening.
Program Is Varied.
The program will start Immediately
at 1880 o'clock and for an hour and
half Kenoshans will be given gen
erous idea Of what their Riddles do
at the Fairgrounds, and of the whole
some outlets provided for their energy
and over-bubbling enthusiasm. Some
of the features give an idea of the
proportions which will make of the
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Many of the features of the Lincoln
park Playground Riddles circus which
was so successfully staged on Monday
night will be repeated through popu-
lar demand on Friday night. There
are to be little girls in solo dances,
in Japanese costumes, in costumes rep
resenting the various nations in folk
dances, a bevy of bathing beauties
sent up form the beach Fairgrounds;
flock of kid clowns dressed up IN
every manner that Is outlandish as
we'll as cute; a group of boys who
will be dressed as troubadors and will
present harmonica serenade; then
there is one of the features that has
given enjoyment to many a kiddie this
summer--the playground orchestra,
consisting Of Riddles who play any
sort of instrument, and play 1t we'll
or otherwise. A giant maypole will be
set up in the center Of the illuminated
field and some prettily-dressed children
will perform the old-fashianed may
pole dance. IN
Everything Is Free.
The entire affair is being organized
and systematized to cover every point
Of the program. And everything prom
Uses to go off without q hitch. PREF
arations are made to handle capacit
crowd in the stadium, and the grand
stand and bleachers will be opened to
al the guests. There is to be absolute
ly no charge of any kind for adntis-
sion to the pageant, the stadirm, tho
band, and the time of the supervisors
in the Fairgrounds being offered to
the city recreation department gratis.
Ormal Bender, 223 Wisconsin street,
has reported to the police that some
one stole the top of his car, valued
at $75, while the car was parked or
Wisconsin street across from the
News Office.
The Board of Review of the city Of
Kenosha held it's regular monthly
meeting Monday at the city hall to