The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-25
KINDERGARTEN
YOUNGSTERS TO
Give PAGEANT
The Shuttle of Gold Will
Be Offered Thursday
at Park.

The Shuttle OF Gold" a pageant.
will be presented at Thursday in
the open air theater at Garfield
park BY the indianapolis Free Kin
dergartens. The pageant will mark
the celebration Of the golden ami
versary festival Of the kindergarten
society.
More than 500 kindergarten chill
dren will take part in the produc-
ton. All Of the twenty-nine kin
dergartens of the city will partici-
pate.
Children from Brookside kinder
garten, 1909 East Sixteenth street,
will play the roles Of children of
1882. The children of fifty years
ago will be represented by the pupils
in Indianapolis avenue kindergarten,
BIS indianapolis avenue. and RAIDER
kindergarten. 3449 RAIDER street.
Good Health Listed
BOYS and girls from Ketcham kin
dergarten, SOB Ketcham street. will
play the roles of Children from
Other Lands.
Playing the roles Of Good Habits
will be the Old Woman Who Lived
in a Shoe, Miss Edith Cavanaugh,
and her children, pupils of Bright
wood kindergarten, 37l8 East Twen-
ty-fifth street.
Three kindergartens will play
Good Health: Fountain Square,
Palmer and Barth streets; Emerson
Heights, 1914 North Emerson ave-
nue., and Eliza A. Baker, Riley hos
pital.
Children of Clifton kindergarten,
3421 Clifton street, will represent |
Safety. Playing the part of Rhythm
will be the Irvington kindergarten, /
10 johnson avenue.
Mother Goose Represented
Representing the Mother Goose I
tales will be Broad Ripple kinder
garten. 6255 College avenue. The .
role Of music will be played by three
kindergartens: Hawthorne, 20l .
North Belle Vieu place: Fairview. AIS I
Boulevard place. and Holiday, 1716
Union street.
Fifteen kindergartens will play in .
the various nature roles. They arc:
Four Seasons. Garfield Park. 1881 Shell /
BY street. Butterflies and Birds. Wallace. I
1907 East Michigan street. Gardeners. Dav /
Nursery. $50 Lockerbie street. rabbits and I
irogs. English avenue. 400 English ave-
nue.: roses and bees Fall Greek 903 East 4
Ihirtieth street. poppes. Flanner. sos 4
North West street; sweet peas. Woodsidc. /
$3.50 Southeastern avenue: violets Nc I
Culloch. si2 West washington street DAT /
iooils. Nathan Morris. p West Morris I
street: tullps. Twentv-eighth street. Oh t
West TVenty-eiChth street: Dsnsies. Chris /
temore. 2402 West Michigan street: daisies /
ana niaCkeYcd suSans. Minkner. 3ll Mink /
nor street: dandelions. George Merritt $40 /
West Michigan street. and cornflowcrS
Riverside. 1926 North Harding street. and I
OAK Hill. 1858 Caroline avenue.
Started in 1882
The festival celebrates the clos |
ing of the fiftieth year of opera
ton for the indianapolis Free Kin
dergarten Society. The organiza-
ton was started under the direction
Of Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker in 1882. The
kindergarten idea was started by
the Rev. Oscar McCulloch. then
pastor of the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church.
The first kindergarten was opened
in the corridor Of school No IL,
West and McCarty streets. dur
ing summer vacation Of 1881.
Mrs. Baker was superintendent
of the society until her death in
1926. She was succeeded by Miss
Grace L. Brown, who now holds the
position.