Show CEREMONIAL ONIAL OPENS TENTH OLYMPIC GAME GAMES PARADE STARTS CLASSIC j WHILE 1 i 1 WATCH Vice ice President Curtis Proclaims Proclaims Pro Pro- claims daims Opening Before 1 Immense Throng r By STUART CAMERON United Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES July 30 Nearly 30 Nearly 2000 athletes dressed in m the van vari- f colored costumes unique to their 39 formed in line today to be be- the parade which will be the come spectacular part of ot the Olympic games opening o ning ceremonial Brought here for the tenth modern renewal of the international contests which began with a simple foot toot race P on jn on the slopes of ML Mt Olympus in Greece in the days before Christ these athletes of ot both sexes will stand stanc at rigid attention while Vice President Curtis makes his set speech of ot 1 14 words officially opening the games They will be seen by a capacity crowd of The spectators will wil include dc part of the more than persons attracted to Los Angeles for forthe forthe the newest version of the historic tests of athletic skill SCHEDULED EVENTS t Within the next 16 days this gro group p of f the worlds world's greatest stars of track and nd field as well as of rowing eques eques- boxing wrestling fencing and kindred sports will have competed in a program of no fewer than individual events 1 Only one sport was represented In today's agenda This was weight weight- lifting preliminary tests of which willbe will willbe willbe be conducted tonight in Olympic auditorium au au- au Thus the show centered today upon the spectacular parade of nations nations- on which the organization committee of Los Ios Angeles has been laboring for more than four years The program really starts at Pacific standard time when the international international inter inter- national organization committee and the Los Angeles committee form at atthe atthe the entrance to receive Mr Curtis I f. f ren Ten minutes later the vice president and Dod his escorts will arrive Then will come the greetings of Count Henri Latour Baillet-Latour of Belgium president of the international Olympic committee committee commit commit- tee and of William May Garland head of the Los Angeles organization A band will play the national an an- them A choir of ot 1000 voices will sing second i the second stanza The parade will start There will be fresh Introductions introductions in In- among the games games games' off oUi i daIs Finally after a hushed minute Vice President Curtis will make his speech Here It itis is I 1 proclaim open the Olympic games of Los Angeles celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era There will be a fanfare of trumpets to herald the opening Ten cannon will cilI sound in itt salute The Olympic torch atop the a continuation continua continua- tion of the large arch at the stadium entrance gates will vill be ignited The choir lIr will sing this time the Olympic anthem As the last note not is heard 2000 pigeons will be released N Next comes the dedication to be delivered by Dr Robert Gordon Sproul president of ot the University of California He will also deliver a benediction The choir will wiIl sing singa a sacred acred hymn The athletes will vIll take the Olympic oath The choir and band together will sing the recessional re reo re- re and the parade in reverse rever e formation will file from the stadium ending the gala show GREEKS LEAD PARADE Incidentally the parade will be led by the Greek athletes This honor was given because Greece h held ld the first Olympic games Last in line will be the largest delegation that of the United States In alphabetical order between these two delegations will come the representatives of these nations Argentina Australia Aus Austria tria Bel Bel- glum clum Brazil Canada China Chinn Colombia Colomba Colom Coloma bia ba Cuba Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Germany Ger Ger- many Great Britain Haiti Holland Hungary India Ireland Italy Japan Latvia Mexico exIco New Zealand Zealand Zea Zea- land Norway Philippine Islands Poland Po land Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Switz Swita- erland Union of ot South Africa and Uruguay Most of the pre game squabbles which had marked th the week before the Olympic fortnight had died down today ay as the contestants gathered for fos thay th their quadrennial parade There was one distinct exception b however This was the one brought about by the refusal of the International International Amateur Athletic federation to reinstate Paavo Nurmi of ot Finland Nurmi accepted the decision in good grace Brace but members of the delegation of which he is now a nominal member were e outspokenly bitter bilter over the ban |