Self help
Contributors: Pahnke, Richard J., donor; United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1934
Language: eng
Other titles: Patriotic pageant
Description: A patriotic pageant "Self Help" by Harry E. Gardener, prologue by Louis Alexander, produced by Self Help Cooperatives, Emergency Relief Administration, assisted by Community Center Department, Washington, D.C. and  Recreation Department, Transient Bureau, Marie Moore Forrest, pageant director. Costumes Miss Florence Chambers and Mrs. Louis Wynne, ushers: High School Cadets, lighting Harold Snyder, Layman Hayes, electrical staff of the United States Capitol, Charles J. McCubbin, assistant pageant director.
Notes: Tuesday, October 9, 1934, 7:30 p.m., East Front, United States Capitol.

Title devised by Library staff.

LC copy has handwritten note: "R.J. Pahnke, Oct. 9, 1934".

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Program: Concert: United States Marine Band, Captain Taylor Branson, leader. I. Overture: "In Bohemia" / Hadley; title: II. Tone Poem "Skyward" / Shilkret; title: III. Selections "Rose Marie" / Friml; title: IV. Suite "Looking Upward" / Sousa; title: V. Intermezzo and Farandole from "Arlesienne" / Bizet; title: March from "Pathetic Symphony" / Tschaikowsky; title: Chorus: Alfred H. Johnson, director, chorus of churches and public high schools: Onward Christian Soldiers; title: Lift Every Voice and Sing; title: Every Time I Feel the Spirit; title: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; title: America the Beautiful; title: Onward Christian Soldiers.; title: Program: Prologue / Reverend F. Ernest Warren, vicar, St. Albans Parish; title: Scene I. Massachusetts 1621, Salvation Army / Captain Young, director; title: Scene II. Pilgrims going to church / Women's Relief Society, J.K. Knudson, director; title: Scene III. The Marriage Barter / Community Center Dramatic Groups: Donna Taggart, Soc. and Buskin Club, Henry W. Spangler Post, American Legion, Self Help Cooperatives, Mary Olive O'Connell, director, Mary Cromwell, assistant director, Marian Chace Dancers, Marshalls: Vernon Lyden, Mr. Shearer, Mr. Boombaum; title: Scene IV. A Country Market, 1830 / Robert H. Anderson, director, Mormon Mutual Improvement Association; title: Scene V. Refusal of Exchange of Commodities, 1840. Shadow Dance of Money / Marian Chace Dancers; title: Scene VI. America's Orgy / D.C. Transient Bureau, Charles J. McCubbin, director, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Beatty, assistant director, Marshalls: Vernon Lyden, A. La Page; title: Scene VII. Despondency; title: Interlude; title: Dance: The Dawn of a New Day / Marian Chace Dancers; title: Scene VIII. Hopefulness; title: Scene IX. The Clarion Call; title: Scene X. Finale. America: Maud Howell Smith, Uncle Sam: J.C. Lyman.