Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 54 | Annual Parade of New Year's in Philadelphia

04 ANNUAL PARADE YEARS YEAR'S IN PHilADElPHIA Mummers Mummer Ce Ceremony e r a em rn o 0 n ny y to Be Bigger Big erand and Better Than n E Ever v By By- JOHN M M. M United Press Pre Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA A UP UP-As UP As New Years Year's d day y dr droves draws W ne near r millions of car careful stitches miles and miles s. s of feathers and frills and countless gilded stars are being u used d in fashioning fash lon a garb for or the tho hC J most I colorful spectacle of t the tho c Ye year year the thc r-thc the mummers mummer's parade ara King will rule supreme a merry monarch to be feted roy roy- ally Little time now remains and nimble fingers fIngers' all over the city ma making the needles fly in order to I have Lve the costumes ready in time Locked doors shaded windows h and ore are only portents of ot the tho great spirit of ot secrecy y that pervades as rival New NewY Y Year Dr clubs proceed with prep prep- In stables and barns garages garages ga Sa- ga- ga rages and c cellars in small ll homes and largo large h homes mes the shooters and th their lr families aro are at work And on New Years Year's day there ther will wilt emerge emerge from these surroundings the great pes ca and orid costumes more moro spectacular and nd dazzling than over ever before Under the guiding eye e of H H. Bart McHugh director of the festival who expects the tho best beet display ever ever e seen here the pageant will unwind Its brightly painted trail splashed with silver sliver and gold r red red- d end and blue uc scarlet orlet and green to to tot t turn rn Bro Broad Broadstreet Broadstreet d street into a a. kaleidoscope of t color Fifteen or moro more clubs will march this year all eager to win wh tho the prizes which total tot Nearly dearly men will fall in tn line Une and their costumes cos cos- must bo be historically as s well as traditionally correct McHugh in an an-