New Britain herald., 1930-04-21
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 AT.F|RST CHURCH
S4 Characters in Play SymbeliZ-
 ing Return Of Spring

An Easter pageant, 'rhe Message of the Resurrection" in which 54 characters participated, was given at the Sunday school session of the First Church of Christ yesterday morning.
 The first scene was at the end of winter. and showed Alice" and Jack" parts taken by Gladys Ely and Wilbert Segler, after long and vain search in the woods looking for flowers. They meet Spring" im- personated by Miss Susan Hubert. and Spring tells them that the flow CTS and trees are not all dead, as the children fear them to be, but they are preapring for the resurrec- ton of the springtime. Then Spring calls out the raindrops, impersonated by Jean. Burchardt, May Johnson, and Nancy Parker, and following the raindrops the sunbeams, Helen AL press, Shirley Erickson, and Betty Landon, come and shine on the brown earth. Soon Spring calls the flowers and the grasses and they ap- pear pushing up through the brown earth, and singing their song of gratitude for the raindrops and the sunbeams. Those taking the part of the flowers were Jacqueline Brad ley, Doris Herwig, Mary and Betsy Kick, Eleanor Joyce, Lois Steele, and Norma Werdelin. The grasses were represented by Elmer Borthwick, George Howe, John kitson, and AL bert Lecrenier.
 During an intermission between scenes the general superintendent, Oscar A. Marsh took charge, and six Junior boys received the offering which is used to provide towering plants to be sent to the shut-in members of the parish. The kinder garten and primary departments sang "The Little Flowers are Walk ing' and Easter Praise" and Dor othy Johnson led in an Easter prayer.
 In the second scene of the pageant the dull brown of the end of winter had passed. and instead the stage was aglow with flowers and signs of springtime. Spring called forth the flowers as Jack and Alice named them, and each in turn came and told the story of reawakening life.
 First came the crocuses, whose story of reawaking from the brown clubhouse was told by Dorothy Ben- son, and told in song also by Mar iorie Pape and Winifred Werdclin. Next the daffodils were called, and Alvina Suess, Edith Pascoe and Vir- ginia Palmer, appearing in daffodil- garb told the story of their reawak- ing in story and song. Three tulips appeared next, at Springs call, and spoke and sang of the joy of re- awakening life in response to the raindrops and sunbeams of spring time. Dawn Messenger. Evelyn the tulips. The children next called Afor the violets, and Spring sum- moned the violets which delight the heart of young and old as all nature reawakens in the springtime. Betsy Chamberlain, Ruth Brideaux, and Denise Humphrey took the part of violets.
 Finally spring explained to Jack and Alice that just as the raindrops and sunbeams had reawakened the flowers to life from what seemed to be just dead bulbs or brown seeds, so there really is no death-for physical death simply leads to the reawaking of larger and more [ beautiful life which the Heavenly Father has planned for His children, and as Spring speaks, three Easter lilies appear and in song and story tell Of the Christian hope of more beautiful life beyond physical death. The part of the Easter lilies waa taken by Betty Curtis Dorothy Kin sella, and Irma Yung. At the close of the pageant all of the crocuses, the daffodils. the tulips, the violets, and the Easter lilies sing together their praise to the Heavenly Father. The pageant was well received by a large audience. Mrs. Samuel Me