Uncle Sam's 137th birthday party
Contributors: Tinnin, Glenna Smith, 1877-1945; Bentley, Alys E. (Alys Eliza), 1868-1951; Minster, Sol; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1913
Language: eng
Subjects: Fourth of July; Miscellanea
Other titles: Program of the pageant given by the Joint Committee for Independence Day Celebration, July Fourth, 1913; Dance of the wood sprites.
Description: Program of the pageant given by the Joint Committee for Indepedence Day Celebration, July fourth, 1913, arranged by the Washington Center of the Drama League of America. "Uncle Sam's 137th Birthday Party," a pantomime play designed and directed by Hazel MacKaye and Glenna Smith Tinnin. To be given at foot of south slope of Monument Lot, accompaniment by Sol Minster's Band.
Notes: Washington, D.C., Procession forms on Seventh Street between B. N.W. and B. S.W., 4:30 p.m. Procession starts 5:00 p.m. Pantomime play to be given at foot of south slope of Monument Lot, 6:00 p.m. July 4, 1913.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: George T. Odell, Mrs. Dudley Hawley, Miss Lotta Linthicum, Graham Velsey, Miss Sibyl Baker, Miss Amy Clement Leavitt, Mrs. Josephine Arnold Rich, Miss Nellie S. Spencer, Miss Mary Connelly, Miss Charlotte Willenbucher, Mrs. B.H. Ransom, Miss Caroline Fiske, Miss Lucy Burns, Miss Estelle D'Alp Thorworth, Miss Lasmit, Miss Etelka Kearney, Miss F.M. Fernald, Miss Dorothy Jelliman, Miss Lillian Nichol, Miss Pauline Smith, Miss Marie Lucas, Miss Elizabeth Freund, Miss Theresa Matthews, MIss Brynne Neal. Misses Mary and Dorothy Shaw, Florence Goldsworthy, Margaret Dellett, Genevieve Thomas, and Mildred Thomas, Misses Ada Louise Townsend, Esther Gresham, Esther Hughes, J. Lewis Moneway, Mrs. H.S. Taylor, Miss Carrie S. Oppenheim, R.B. Morgan, Rita Schiffman, F.E. Barbour, Messrs. M.J. Halpine, Carl Brunner, Lawrence Murphy, Mizzell, Lawson and Leitch, Misses Alwilda Lowell, Evelyn Shedd, Lulu Adams, Flora Pierce and Mrs. Leitch. Misses Mary Decker, Margot Crass, Margaret Smith, Marian May, Mrs. Nellie Mizzell, Eliza Moncure and Evelyn Croggin, Misses Gladys Knorr, Helen McLeod, Eleanor Gannett, Katherine Kalbfus, Olive Taylor, Emma Clark, W.G. Macmurchy, Harry Hodges, Miss Emma Clark, Miss Mary Newcomb, Miss Mary Raeder, Misses Esther McLeary, Grace Ross, Evelyn Norcross, Louise Wallis Puffer, Elizabeth Lauman, Johanna Gsantner, Mrs. R.B. Morgan, Misses Sylvia Metcalf, Mona Jelliman, Misses Blanche Sperry, Katherine Drane, Edith Warren, Adeline Kent, Ruth Menzel, Mr. Willie Fraser, R. Bassett Blackley, Ruby Raymond, Misses Johan Farrar, Anna Decker, and Helen Decker.

"Dance of the Wood Sprites," by pupils of the public schools. Prepared by Miss Alys E. Bentley, given under direction of Miss Ruth M. Doing. In Agricultural Department grounds near 14th and B Streets, N.W., 4:30 p.m."

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Order of events; title: Synopsis of "Uncle Sam's 137th Birthday Party"; title: Cast of Characters.