Evening star., 1933-09-29
REGATTA PARADE
TO HAVE 60 BOATS
Boston, Miami and Other
Distant Places Will Be
Represented Tonight.

More than go brilliantly lighted and
decorated boats. some from points as
far distant as Boston and Miami, Will
take part In an elaborate night pageant
and marine parade tonight in connec-
ton with the Presidents Cup Re-
gatta.
The pageant, the first OF the kind
held in connection with the annual
regatta, Is expected to be the first
of q series of annual marine pageants
which will be outstanding local events.
It was explained by Dorsey w. Hyde.
chairman of the Pageant Committee.
Prizes will be awarded to the owners
of the six best-decorated boats and
brass plsques will go to each boat
entered in commemoration OF the
event. The pageant will wind up at
the Corinthian Yacht Club. where
plaques and prizes will be awarded and
an entertainment program given.
Thousands Of spectators are ex-
pected to watch the marine parade
from vantage points on both shores
Of East Potomac Park and Washing
ton Channel Five thousand grand
stand seats will be provided on the
west shore of East Potomac Park above
Hains Point. Tickets for this stand
may be obtained at the Willard Hotel,
the American Automobile Association
Building or at regatta headquarters In
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. Building.
Queen to Be Crowned.
The night pageant program will
begin with the crowning OF the pageant
queen. Miss Amelia Gertrude .Arring-
ton, 2Z years old, niece Of Assistant
Secretary of Interior Oscar L. Chap
man. Miss Arlington Is a student OF
George Washington University and is
employed in the ONCE Of Senator
She will arrive in front of the Po-
tomac Park stand at tbs o'clock this
evening oficially to inaugurate the
pageant Miss Arlington will be ac-
companied by six members Of her
retinue-Miss Dorothy Green, Miss
Ruth Remon, Miss Betsy Page Nc
Lean. Mrs. Violet Ingland. Miss Jenne
Butler and Miss Sallie Bell Stearns.
She also will be accompanied by the
judges of the marine parade, H. P.
Caemmerer, secretary Of the Fine Arts
Commission; r. P. Tolman, acting
director of the National Gallery Of
Art, and Frederic Allen Whiting, presi-
dent Of the American Federation of
Arts.
In the meantime the boats partici-
pating in the parade will have been
formed in column along the Virginia
shore Of the Potomac. AS the queen
takes her throne the District fire boat
in the Potomac channel in front Of the
stand, will begin playing streams OF
water high in the air, Illuminated by q
beam of light from a mobile searchlight
of the District National Guard. The
Marine Band will play.
Around Hains Point.
The column of boats will pass be-
tween the fire boat and the stand
down Potomac Park and around Hams
Point, then up Washington Channel tc
the head of steamboat navigation
back down the channel to the Army
War College and around War College
point to the Navy Yard, where the
parade will disband The War College
and various steamboat wharves will be
lighted and decorated.
A running broadcast Of interesting
facts about the boats in the parade
will be given by Andrew Duffy and
relayed to spectators all along the
Potomac Park area by loudspeakers.
At the presentation Of awards at the
Corinthian Yatch Club the owner OF
each boat will receive a brass PLAQUE
to be permanently displayed in his
boat, stating the fact of his participa-
ton, the date and the name OF the
boat. Six silver palques will be
awarded the most attractively dec
Grated boats. The presentations prob
ably will be made by Secretary Of In
terror Ickes. DR.. G. Bache Gill will
act as commodore of the parade.
Ali officials of the regatta, members
of the regatta committee, and race
drivers are invited to the "open house
of the Corinthian Yacht Club which
will precede the close Of the pageant
Theatrical acts will be included in the
program, which will close with dance