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Show DEAF ID BLIND TO GIVE GREOTFESTIl State Institution at Ogden Plans a Program of Unusual Un-usual Interest. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, May 2S. The annual May festival of the State School for the Deaf and Blind will be held at the institution institu-tion tomorrow afternoon, beginning at 5 o'clock and continuing for about three hours. It is expected that Acting Governor Gov-ernor Harden Bennion and other state officials will head a delegation of about 300 persons who will come from Salt Lake "for the event. The authorities of the school announcer today they would be able to take care of 4000 persons in the amphitheater which has been erected on tiie lawn on the east side of the school. The festival this year will comprise an exhibition of the work of the pupils in all the departments. At 6 o'clock the guests will be escorted to the amphitheater, where the dance festival, which forms the nucleus of the program, will be given. For the firsy time siAce the inauguration inaugura-tion of the May festival, the blind children chil-dren will not dance, but instead will form the chorus which will render the cantata. The deaf children will carry out the story of the songs in their dancing. The singers will occupy a stage at the south end of the lawn, Immediately Imme-diately behind the enlarged orchestra. The closing number of the program will be the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner"' by the children and the audience. audi-ence. Superintendent Frank M. Driggs said today that the weather man had given him a guarantee that there would be no showers during the time the festival was in progress. He said that he desired the public to use the entrance at the corner of Twentieth street and Monroe avenue. |