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Show CENTENNIAL EVENTS REACH CLIMAX THIS MONTH Utah's Centennial birthday par-sj ty will come to a rousing climax next week in Salt Lake City. The icing will go on a cake that has been in process of the making during dur-ing tne past seven months. Local celebrations have been held in almost al-most every county of the state and now comes the big culmination-two culmination-two jubilee days to fittingly mark the arrival of the pioneers mto the valley ofthe Great Salt Lake 100 years ago. The fun actually got underway Thursday when a free street pageant pag-eant began on Salt Lake City's Main street. A high act, jugglers and tumbling artists will perform each day at 12:15 and 5 p. m., except ex-cept Sunday up to and including next Wednesday. From July 19 to the 24th Gene Autry and his Madison Square Garden Rodeo will be performing I at Ogden and on Sunday, July 20, i the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir will present "The Restoration" in the Tabernacle. On July 21, at the University of Utah stadium, "Promised Valley", a spectacle pageant depicting the arrival of the pioneers in the valley val-ley and starring Alfred Drake and Jet McDonald, Broadway luminaries, luminar-ies, will open. It will be presented every evening except Sunday at 8:45. It will close Aug. 9. Also on the evening of the 21st, the Boy Scouts will have a camp-fire camp-fire program at the Centennial campgrounds on Fort Douglas. Tuesday, July 22, will mark the end of the Sons of Utah Pioneers' trek from Nauvoo. Wednesday morning at 8:30, the first of two big Centennial parades will be held. The parades will pro- ceed down Main street to Eighth : South, across east to State Street and proceed up State Street. There will be scores of beautiful floats depicting the past and present of the state of Utah. The parade will run between two and a half and three hours. The day of July 24th, Pioneer Day in Utah, will be jammed full of big-time events beginning at 1 6:30 a. m., when two Sunrise serv- , ices will be held in Salt Lake City. The Boy Scouts will hold a Sunrise service at Donner Hill and Emigration Emi-gration Stake will also conduct a ! service at Lindsay Gardens, Eighth Avenue and M streets. ! At 9:30, three dedication ceremonies cere-monies will begin at the "This Is The Place" monument at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. Monument Park will be dedicated, the ftenefer Road will be dedicated and in the finale the veil will be removed from the $350,000 "This Is The Place" monument. At noon there will be a dinner for the pioneers sponsored by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers at the Hotel Utah. At 3:15, the pioneers will attend an unceiling of plaques to be set in the rotunda i of the state capitol building. j The big Centennial Exposition will be going full blast with the Intermountain Horse Pulling Con- . test as one of the many big attractions. attrac-tions. Included among the big drawing cards at the Exposition is : the Centennial Art Show "A Hun- j dred Years of American Painting." j At six p. m., on the evening of j ; the 24th, the second big parade j will be held following the same ; route as the morning parade of the I 23rd. 1 |
