Evening star., 1926-11-14
HARVEST FESTIVAL
AIDS CITIZEN DRIVE
Enrolment Urged at Pageant
of School Community
Center Department.

The third annual harvest festival
produced by the Community Center
Department of the public school sys-
| tenn, with the cooperation of a num-
ber of dramatic organizations, staged
last night, at Central High School, be-
fore an audience of 500, developed
at its outset into an OutspOken eX-
preston for greater organized citi-
zenship, when Miss Sibyl Baker, di-
rector of the Community Center De
partment, took the stump in support
of the membership campaign now un-
derway throughout citizens organiza
tiOnS of the city.
Miss Baker urged that every parent
and adult citizen present enlist in the
citizenship movement. through which
| residents of the voteless capital >have
| the most effectual expression of opin-
ion on civic matters.
Awakening to Power.
Eve of Washington" she declared.
are growing increasingly alive to the
power which we have on hand in the
form of our citizens associations.
Miss Baker called attention to the
fact that in all of the Washington
papers there are appearing application
forms for membership in civic bodies
affiliated with the Federation of Citi
gems Associations, and urged that the
people of Washington join in the
move to enlist every citizen as q mem
Der of some organization.
The pageant, written and staged by
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest and Miss
Bess Davis Schreiner, was a light dra
matte piece of pleasant mood, depict
ing harvest scenes of a number of
ages and nations.
Gets Artistic Touch.
A distinctly artistic touch was given
in the opening scene, the Festival Of
Ceres, staged by the Art Club, as
sisted by the Mckinley dancers,
pastel setting Of which was posed by
Henry K. BuSh-BroWn. Another eff
fectiVe scene was that of the Feast
of the 1ngathering, directed by Miss
Schreiher and Arthur Griffith, which
was a reproduction of AN ancient
Hebrew festival before such an altar
as Moses used.
Supt of Schools Ballou sketched the
development of community center
work, and presented Miss Baker.
Cast for Pageant.
The cast for the various sections Of
| the harvest festival pageant follows
Prologue-Estelle Wentworth.
| Festival of Ceres-Staged by the
Arts Club group, including Henry K.
| Bush Brown, Edward +. Muth, Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith, Mrs. Ethel Byrd
Kemon. Miss Kate Tomlinson. Miss
Harriet Murphy, Miss Annette Dew
| lin, Mckinley Dancers including Alice
Callan, Mary Galloway, Tace Etman.
| Martha Fisher, Judy Lyeth. Dorothy
Parsons, Elaine Patterson, Mary
o.
Shoemaker.
Birth of the HarVest-Mary Schultz
and Dorothy Parsons of the McKin-
ley Dancers.
Feast of Ingathering- by the
East Washington Community Center,
with the National Capital Players:
Barry Helwig, Kenneth Klinger,
Ernest Littleton, Leonard Blush, Ed
ward Morris, Edward Marks, Taylor
Anderson, Ronald Whipp. +. Arthur
Griffith; Bryan-Buchanan Club, in
Guiding Beth Critchfeld Martha
Cant, Margaret Roudabush, Janet
Rock, Dorothy Bishoff, Ethyl Hertz,
Dolores Iglehart, Lorraine Hayes,
Jessie Chase, Josephine kerge. Vir
ginia Burnett, Margaret Grim, Helen
Van Loock, Nancy Percival; Wash
ingtoE Athletic Club, including
Eleanor Watt. Betty * o n m n,
Miriam Hearn, Estella Hearn, and
members OF the Metropolitan Baptist
&. Il. Club, members of the Washing
ton Boys Independent Band and
others. Ceremonial dances in this
scene by the Mckinley Dancers, di
rected by Caroline Mckinley.
Chinese Tea Harvest-presented by
the O-E-Mor Dramatic Club of Cen
trail High School, including Alice
Louise Hunter Ruth Reynolds, Elsie
Vycital, Margaret Stewart, HELEN
Newell, Kitty Auth, Marguerite
Bogue, Miriam Mcdaniel, Christine
Stewart.
First American Thanksgiving.
Harvest.time in the Balkans-By
members of the dramatic and
rhythmic groups Of Southeast Center.
including Joe Kelley, Grace Moran,
Lois Loff1er, Annie Capanelli, Martin
James Kerr, Florence Estes, June
Nifong, Edith Nifong, lorraine
Tucker, Melvin Fletcher. William
Fletcher, Fremont Davis, Carol Kerr,
Barbara Alvey, Ella Bergling, Gene
We've Bergling, Elizabeth Capanelli.
Inez Chester, Doris Chester, Rosemary
Dunnigan, Rita Dunnigan.
First Thanksgiving in America-By
members OF the dramatic groups OF
Thomson and Park View Community
Centers, including Josephine Mclean,
e. A. Ross, Frances Donovan, Mary
Ellen Barclay, A. Maxim, Albert
Canter, Julia Scharf, Sadie Sharf.
Clara Aschenbach, Owen McGarry,
Emily Hale, Russell HENDERSON, Elmer
Metz, Ora Hale. George Charnley
Aquila Hale, Dorothy Metz, Agnes
HENDERSON, Nora K. Bramell, Dorothy
Walsh, Norberta Bramell, May A
Foute, G.. Roche, James Conley, G.
De Zavala. The Indians in this scene