The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1933-03-03
GIRL SCOU rs
TO CELEBRATE
TWenty-First National Birthday
OF Organization to be OBJ
served Throughout Ma
ton on March IL
Mammoth Celebrations Plan
ned for New York, Boston
And Other CitieS-LocaI
Troop to Observe Day

Troop to Observe Day
Two great celebrations in Bostor
and New York and hundreds of 9TH
ers throughout the country including
London, will mark the Girl Scout
coming f-age which takes place or
March 12, the 21st birthday of the
organization. The festivities, which
will last week, will begin prema-
turely in New England with polar
carnival on March 11th. The Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, the Mayor OF
Boston, Mrs. Frederick Edey, presi-
dent of the Girl Scouts, Mrs. Mich
olas f. Brady, chairman of the ma
tional board of directors, eight ma
tional board members from various
parts of the United States, and all
members of the Massachusetts board
will be present at the carnival, III
which members of the Byrd Antarctic
expedition, Mabel Vinon, national
women's singles champion, and six
hundred Girl Scouts will be the per-
formers in varied entertainment.
There will be scenes representing
the north and south poles, at the lat
ter of which the explorers will re-
enact life in Little America" and the
Girl Scouts will pledge allegiance to
the newly hoisted American flag.
There will be penguins and seals to
lend authentic local color to the set
ting.
Miss Vinon, former Girl Scout, will
give a demonstration of solo skating.
The festival will conclude with a
greeting to the audience from Mrs.
Frederick Edey, who will speak from
her box. There will be no other
speakers. The arena is already sold
out, and among the audience will be
five thousand Girl Scouts.
From Boston, the Girl Scout presl-
dent, the national chairman and board
members will proceed to New York,
where the visitors will be house
guests of the New York officials.
The birthday week will open with
business, for he board will take this
occasion to hold its semi-annual
meeting. On the evening of March
18th, the visitors will be entertained
by the New York board members at
q dinner in the Cosmopolitan Club,
after which the New York Federation
will invite them all to birthday
party in the assembly room of the
club. Mrs. Robert G. Mead will be
the hostess of the party, which will
also be attended by members Of the
five borough Girl Scout councils and
other local officers. There will be
speeches, singing by a troop of Girl
scout minstrels, and possibly a pre-
view of the pageant which Will be
the feature of the girls own cele-
bration later in the week.
The Girl Scouts of Manhattan and
Queens will hold their party on
March Is at the Roxy RkO theatre
which has been lent for the occa-
sion. A pageant, written by Miss
Oleda Schrottky, Girl Scout playlady,
will be acted by 26 girls represent
ing the five boroughs of Greater New
York. Dressed in specially designed
costumes they will carry in lighted
four-foot cake. There will be singing
by the minstrels, dancing and re-
freshments.
Since the girls own parties must
take place on non-school days, those
for the Staten Island, Bronx and
Brooklyn Girl Scouts will be held on
succeeding Saturdays.
1t is expected that birthday parties
will continue all through 1888 for the
Girl Scouts who, in different parts
of the country, will choose different
times to celebrate. Miss Schrottky's S
pageant, complete with box of cos
tunes and wooden cake, will reappear
in various parts of the United States
during the year