Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
REHEARSALS BEGIN
FORBLOSSOMFETE
Plans for Pageant at Hams
Point April 9 Progress as
/ Dancers Prepare.

Plans are developing rapidly for the
cherry blossom pageant at Hams
Point April 3, which 1t is hoped will
serve as a foundation for an annual
Spring festival.
Children are being rehearsed for
the various dances and are entering
INTO the work with enthusiasm. The
pageant Is being presented under the
auspices of the National Memorial
Foundation. an organization for the
relief OF needy ex-service mems fam
lilies.
The central committee in charge of
the affair. is as follows:
Mrs. Elise Muliken, director of the
festival: Mrs. Alice Rogers Hager,
originator of the story: John NJ.
Hager, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes di-
rector of Fairgrounds. Miss Sybil
Baker. director of community centers;
Mrs. Frank Bunker. Mrs. Louise Err
mine Titus, technical director; Capt.
M. HI. Parsons, assistant to Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant; Miss Alice Hutchins
Drake. research adviser: Miss Eliza
beth Gardiner. Miss Elizabeth Shirley.
Felix Mahoney. o. o. Kuhn. Isaac
Kuhn. commissioner of education;
Miss Evelyn Davis, Miss Dorothy Col
Inns, Miss May Schultz. Mrs. w. S.
Spencer, Lynn Drake, executive secre-
tary of the Boy Scouts; Miss Marjorie
Webster, Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest
and Miss Leonard Marie de Grange
Named Technical Director.
Mrs. Louise Ermine Titus has been
appointed technical director. She will
be assisted by the Baroness Irene Won
Ungren.
Miss Jean MacKay. winner of last
years national poster contest, will
design the special posters. and spe-
cial costumes are being designed by
Miss Mary cambridge Hayden, Miss
Ethel Wells and Nine Nagi, with the
assistance of Miss Alice Drake, who
is doing special research work to in
sure the accuracy of the designs.
A special musical score is being
arranged by Capt. Stannard of the
Army Band.
Others taking part in the pageant
include the Marjorie Webster dancers,
who will do the Bon Odori dance; the
st. Patrick's Players, who will take
the part of courtiers, young lords
and samurai: students from Western
High School, representing spirits of
1ne storm and retainerS of the Lord
Mayor of Toxic: the children of
Washington, by the Leonora Marie
de Grange Child Players; children
OF the American Revolution by the
members of that organization: chill
dren of the nations, by the children
from the various embassies; the Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts and other
groups.
CIubwomen Back Project.
Mrs. Phillip s. Smith, president of
the Twentieth Century Club. and
Mrs. J. Garfield Riley, president of
the Women's City Club, have given
their endorsement to the festival, as
has also Mrs John Scott Rafter,
president Of the Parent-Teacher As
ISOLATION.
Many special committees have been
formed. The chairmen and their spe-
cial work are as follows: Commit.
tees on special invitations, Mrs. John
Bunker Mrs. Robert Imbrie. Mrs.
Albert Fl. Putney and Mrs Edward
+. Costigan patronesses, Mrs Tan
ner; music, Mrs. Charles Mex. Saltz-
man: costumes, Mrs. Grace Graves
Herring: flag decorations. Mrs. An |
drew Hero, Jr.; cooperation Of |
schools. Mrs. Albert y. Baggs; ar |
rangements, Mrs. Harry c. Barnes
stage properties. Mrs. Alfred A. May /
bach; transportation. Miss Mary Don |
nelly: invitations, Mrs. Frank Wins |
ton Coe. Mrs. George Kicker.
Mrs. Henry w. Father, district |
commissioner OF Girl Scouts, is lend |
ing her cooperation, and Mrs. Gerrit |
8. Miller, captain of Scout Troop No.
63. has announced that the girls, Of |
this troop will take an active part in |
the pageant. The Girl Scout Troop of
Lyon Park. under the leadership of
Mrs. Lowell B. Wright, will look after
the stage properties. Mrs. George M
Grimes has accepted the important
work OF looking after the children and
seeing that they are transported safe. |
ly back and forth In the buses which |
viii be provided for the purpose
Dances Being Rehearsed.
Rehearsals of the cherry petal bal |
let, directed by Miss Evelyn Davis:
the Bon Odori dance, by the Marjorie
Webster dancers; the lantern dance. |
under the direction of Miss Nav
Schultz, the tree ballet under the di. |
rection Of Miss Dorothy Collins, have
already begun, and Rev. Francis J. |
HurDey, director Of the ST. Patrick's |
Players, has designated some of the
best actors in that organization to |
take the speaking parts. Thirty boys
from Western High School have been |
designated by Miss Sue Gardner of |
Western High School to take various |
panlomin1e parts and to represent |
the Spirits Of the Storm
The festival will be of especial sig |
nif1cance to the girls of the Purple |
Pansy Troop of Girl Scouts, who will |
take part. These girls have known |
all about the Japanese love for cherry
blossoms ever since their captain. Mrs |
Gerrit s. Miller, met Miss K. s. Higa. |
XII. Girl Scout captain of Toxic. When |
Miss Higaki went back to japan she |
told The girls of the Forget Me. Not |
Troop in Toxic of the Purple Pansv |
Troop and an interesting exchange OF |
letters between the two troops was |
the result.