Evening star., 1936-05-17
CH|[DREN'S CIRCUS
IS SET SATURDAY
More Than 1000 to Partici-
pate in Events at Central
High Stadium.

The second annual Children's Com
munity Circus. under the auspices of
the Community Center Department,
will be held next Saturday at 2:30
o'clock in the Central High School
stadium, with more than 1000 chill
dren participating. officials expect
more than 10000 to witness the per-
formanCe.
Arthur Godfrey will make the an
nouncements. A parade about the
field will open the event. Two bands
and three drum and bugle corps will
march and the climax will include the
unfurling Of a huge American flag,
dance spectacles and chorus singing.
There will be balloons, peanuts, pop
corn, candy, Ice cream cones and
other things found at the real circus.
Boys and girls who have been trained
by Frank Portillo, Washington's IA
nous clown, will appear as clowns
during the presentations. A variety
of races for graded school children
have been arranged by Birch Bayk,
director of physical education in the
public schools. 1t is expected more
than, 800 will participate in Dances
representing the centers in divisions
! to 8.
One Of the important features will
be the Wild West spectacle, Pioneer
Days" featuring the attack on the
covered wagon by Indian tribes and
its rescue by the soldiers and cowboys
on the plains. In this part of the
circus the participants will be the
drama groups of the centers. assisted
by Boy Scouts and the Salvation
Army Life-Saving Scouts.
There will be 20 ringmasters. with
Harold Snyder of the Community
Center Department in charge of the
circus field. The Metropolitan Police
Boys Band and the Washington Elks
Boys Band will alternate in leading
the procession in and out of the sta
dunn. and will otherwise divide hon.
ors in accompanying the singing and
dancing groups. The music of the
accompaniment for the other acts
will be amplified through speakers
furnished by the National Electrical
Supply Co.
Cooperating with the Community
Center are the Office of National
Capital Parks, the metropolitan po-
lice. District of Columbia Red Gross,
District of Columbia Public Schools,
District of Columbia Boy Scouts, Dis
trict of Columbia Girl Scouts. Saliva
ton Army Life-Saving Scouts. High
School Cadet Corps and other organ
izations and agencies.
The art department Of the public
schools is assisting by having school
art classes make a number of posters,
which are being exhibited in Wood
ward & Lothrop's, Hecht's, Kann's,
Palais Royal and Lansburghs this
week. The Washington Transit Co.
also is carrying on its cars this week
announcements of the circus.
One of the features planned by the
committee. Of which Mrs. E. K.
Peoples Is chairman ex officio and
Mrs. M. w. Davis active chairman,
is side show, made possible through
cooperation Of DR.. William r. Mann,
director of the Zoo, and Melvin D.
Hildreth. It is also expected that,
preceding the circus, there will be
demonstration of the camp life and
customs of a real tribe of Indians
who will come to Washington to ap-
pear in the circus.
Through the interest of DR.. Frank
w. Ballou. free tickets will be dis
tributed this week to school children,
who must be accompanied to the cir
Gus by adults.