The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-08-24
PRECAUTIONARY PAGEANT


OcthDer D anu U
Maryland's Tercentenary year will
be climaxed with fanfare and pag-
eantry on October 5th and 9Th.
The Maryland Tercentenary Com
mission of Baltimore will present an
historical pageant in the Baltimore
Stadium on the nights of October s
and 6 in which over 5000 persons
will participate. The entire State
will be represented in the prelude
to the pageant, when Duchess"
and her attendants from each coun-
ty in Maryland will be presented to
Lady Baltimore"
1.-THE Soul of Maryland" is the
title of the pageant, work just
completed by Doctor Matthew, Page
Andrews, Chairman of the Balti-
more Commission. 1t will be d.
rected by Percy ]. Burrell, of Bos-
ton, who has staged more than thir-
ty successful pageants. The city
will contribute $1,000 to help meet
the expenses of the affair, and var
ious individuals and firms will un-
derwrite it. There will be a small
charge for admission, and it is ex-
pected that the affair will be self
sustaining, and underwriting sub
scriptions refunded.
Only the founding of the colony
and the events leading up to it will
form the subject of the Pageant, a
unique feature of historical works
of this kind. Invariably, grea.
stretches of history have been in
cluded in such writings. A height
ened effect will be produced, it is be-
lieved, by concentration upon the
single main event, the planting of
the settlement in Maryland.
The evenings program will begin
with a procession of the presidents
of the patriotic societies taking
their seats in the boxes reserved by
their organizations. The Duchesses
of the counties then will be received
by Lady Baltimore, who will be en-
throned upon a dais. Each Duchess
will be escorted by two maids of
honor and two pages, a boy and
girl, and by a standard bearer, car
rying the flag of the county which
she represents. AS Lady Batli-
more's court forms around her,
there will be burst of music, and
the lights will BLACK out" This
will form the prelude to the pageant
The Duchesses will be selected by
the Maryland Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, of which Mrs. Rudolph
S. Allen is President. Contests will
take place in each county under the
charge of the branch Of the fedora
ton in that section and In coopera-
ton with the State federation. Only
women of great beauty will be Sc
lected as Duchesses or maids of hon
or. They will bear the name of
their counties, such as the Duchess
of Somerset, the Duchess of Kent or
the Duchess of Dorchester, etc.
They will appear in the order In
which their counties were founded,
st. Mary's, which was formed in
1884, coming first, and Garrett,
which was made county in 1872,
drawing up the end of the process
sion. Each group will wear the cos
tunes of the period in which their
county was formed.
This pageant has been ON the
program of the State Tercentenary
Commission since it first began its
plans and was postponed in order
not to conflict with other tercenten-
airy events. The members of the
Baltimore Commission with head
quarters at West Madison Street,
are: DR.. Matthew Page Andrews,
Chairman; William l.. Marbury,
Honorary Chairman; r. Walter
Graham, Treasurer; Lewis M. Mil
bourne, Chairman Finance Commit
tee; Randolph N. Dame, General Di-
rector; Josephs A. Clarke. Assistant
Director; Elmer F. Bernhard, AS
sistant Director; Mary Spotswood
Warren, Assistant Director; Percy
Jewett Burrell, Pageant Director;
G. A Parsons and Edward D.
Prince, Business Management.