Evening star., 1941-04-05
Pageant to0pen
Blossom Fete
Next Saturday
Barge to Cary
Owen and Court
To lrone Scene
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With colorful water pageant and
coronation of the queen, the annual
Cherry Blossom Festival will open at
2:30 o'clock next Saturday afternoon
at the Tidal Basin, near the foot of
Seventeenth street NV, according
to details on the festival made public
today.
The queen, Miss Nancy Strong,
comely daughter of Col. and Mrs. A.
G. Strong, will be surrounded by
princeSSeS of her court as she moves
across the Tidal Basin on decora-
tive barge escorted by boats pro-
PEELED by students of woodrow Will
son High School.
AS the barge approaches the sea
wall, Southern melodies will be sung
by the Municipal Colored Male
Chorus trained by Robert Hamilton.
The queen and her court will be
received, as they disembark, by Com
missioner John Russell Young, Ed
gar Morris, chairman of the Festival
Committee, and Thomas P. Morgan,
lr., chairman of the Coronation
Committee.
Overton to Place Crown.
The United States Marine Band
will play coronation music as the
queen is seated on the throne. Miss
Strong will be crowned by Senator
Overton, Democrat, of Louisiana, a
member of the Senate District Com
mittee. Bob Ellis will sing Cherry
Blossom Time" following the cere-
mony.
At 3 o'clock the Columbia Light
Opera Co., under the direction OF
Miss Ethyl B Manning, will stage a
40-minute program, Music and
Blossoms The finale will be a
waltz during which Mr.. Ellis will
sing Cherry Blossom Time Along
the Potomac"
Aubrey Bogley is chairman of the
Pageant Committee.
A luncheon will be given for the
queen preceding the pageant at a
fashion show in the Raleigh Hotel
and after the ceremonies spectators
will go to the nearby Polo Field for
retreat parade at o'clock put on by
the 18th Infantry. stationed at
Arlington Cantonment.
Ball at 8 O'Clock.
A cherry blossom ball will open at
9 o'clock Saturday night at Uline's
Arena. Third and M streets NE,
with music furnished by two popular
orchestras-on led by Dick Stable.
known as master of the saxophone,"
and the other by Bunny Berigan.
campus favorite.
The queen and her attendants will
be seated on a throne at the ball.
Also on the platform will be partici-
pating officials and Senator Reyn-
olds, Representative Randolph,
chairman of the House District
Committee, and Col and Mrs.
Strong, the queens parents. The
Columbia Light Opera Co. will open
the ball by singing from the floor
Cherry Blossom Time" and Cherry
Blossom Time Along the Potomac"
Mr.. Ellis will sing solo parts.
The pageant will be held again at
s;30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon.
April 13, without the coronation and
military exhibition, it was an
nounced.
Theater Party Sunday.
The finale of the festival will be
party at the Capitol Theater Sum-
day night to be attended by the
queen, members of the committee,
the District Commissioners and Sem
ators Overton and Reynolds and
Representative Randolph.
The queens court consists of the
following:
Kathleen Clevenger, Columbus
University School of Law; Maggie
Bell Wiltshire, Holton Arms School
and Junior College; Jane Cutting,
Chevy Chase Junior College; Be
atrice Wyman. American University;
Betty Helms, National Park College;
Shirley Kirkpatrick, King Smith
Studio School; Judy Worth Good
ring, University of Maryland; Mar
garet Boteler, Convent of the Sacred
Heart; Mary Ellen Carter, George
town Visitation Junior College;
Muriel Lunger, Fairmont Junior
College: Vivian AnSelmo, Immacu-
lata Junior College; Estelle Brous-
sard, Dunbarton College of Holy
Cross; Jane Wyatt, Marjorie Web
ster School, and Betty Jane Becker
and Elizabeth Stewart Richardson,
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