The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-02
PAGEANT Will TELL
AMERICAS HISTORY
Progress Of Nation Will Be Re-
lated in Panorama BY jun
ior High School

The cast Of characters for 1.-THE
Progress Of America" an historical
pageant to be presented Thursday,
March 10, in the city auditorium by
the VIII junior high school, was an
nounced Wednesday by G. w. Leifur,
principal OF, the school.
Two programs, an afternoon matt
nee for school children at $3.50 o'clock
and an evening performance at 1880
o'clock, will be given.
Probably the largest undertaking
attempted by the junior high in re-
cent years, the pageant IS distinctive
in that it was written and assembled
almost entirely by Miss Louise john
son and Miss Mabel Olson OF the
school faculty. They are coaching
the dramatics. When the various
scenes and parts have been perfected
the pageant will be assembled into q
spectacle which will relate events Of
historical significance to the United
States from the time Columbus APP
pealed to the King and Queen OF
Spain for aid up to the present day.
General supervision of the pageant
will be in the hands Of Mr.. Leifur and
the Misses johnson and Olson. Miss
Mildred Fried, physical education in
structor, assisted by Miss Adeline
Ness, is directing the dances; Miss
Charlotte Schmidt and Miss Gertrude
Evarts will have charge Of the Co.'S
tuning and Clarion E. Larson, music
instructor, IS directing the chorus.
Themar Simle is arranging the pub
licity for the pageant, with Edward
Heer and E. Haldi in charge of prop
critics.
The main characters are symbolic
of the forces prominent In the de-
velopment Of our country and they
appear in the introduction to the
pageant, and in several Of the cpl
sodes. They are Columbia, Margaret
Munday; Uncle Sam. Everett Hill;
Progress, Harriet Malm: Industry,
Harold Griffith; Art, Catherine Eel
trup; Education, Beverly Barnes; and
Liberty, Jeanne Paris.
Those appearing in the seven cpl
sodes are:
Episode 1, The Court OF CASTLE:
Columbus, Dayton Shipley; Isabelle,
Betty st. Cyr; Ferdinand, John o.
walt: ladies : in waiting, Alice
knowles, Laverne Middlemas, Joan
Hughes; courtiers. Robert Killing,
Leonard BANNER. Myrl Edmark;
pages, Robert King and Ralph
Rhoades.
Episode 2, Discovery and Settle
ment: Followers Of Columbus, Adam
schwa!1m, Austin Ward, Ienny Las
kin. Gregory Dahlen: Indians, Ted
Boutrous, Wendelen Brown, Herman
Miller; Spanish settlers, Arlene Ru-
der. Thor Beattie, Beverley Bryan,
Helen Younise, Robert Illchen, Ar
len Schultz, Richard Shafer; Morse
men. William Tillotson, Melvin Pet
erson, Clifford Thorson, Beulah He
dahl, Mary Helen Smith, Henrietta
Ode, Helen Hedstrom, James Spohn,
Homer Corwin, Chester Little, John
Peterson; French settlers, Emma
LANCER, Ruth Benzon, Bernice Pet
erson, Lucille Hannaford, Gayle KEEL
" Dorothy Nancy, Sarah Anne
Messenger, Patricia LaRue; Dutch
settlers, Buddy Beall, Dorothy
Bounds, Solweig Nelson, Eileen Ag-
new, Edna Bredy, Eileen Saxvik,
Walter Larson, Herbert Asseltine,
Homer Boss, Lucius Wedge; Pill
grims, Raymond Yeasley, Albert
Thysell, Harry Fields, Clair Her.
bert, Ruth Callahan, Dorothy Sig
urdson, Gertrude Engen, Bernice
Wenaas.
Episode 8, Spirit of '76: Colonial
gentlemen: Benny Jones, Charles