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Show GREAT PAGEANT AT LOST CITl MAY 23 Celebrating the completion of the Arrowhead Trail from the Arizona line near Buukerville to Las Vegas, and the discovery of the Pueblo Grande Nevada, the Lost City near St. Thomas, a pageant will be staged at the latter place on the evening of May 23, and this will be one of the most magnificent spectacles ever presented pre-sented in Nevada. Great interest is being taken in the affair in the southern part of the state, and in southern California, southern Utah, and western Arizona, and there is no doubt that a large number of people will attend the pageant. The celebration is the outcome of the recent visit of John Armstrong Chaloner and his liberal gift to the state to be used for recreational and educational purposes. The Heye Foundation of New York, which is financing the explorations near St. Thomas, has also become interested, and is furnishing the services of experts ex-perts in participating in the staging of the pageant. A band of Zuni Indians, direct de-scendents de-scendents of the early inhabitants of the nrehistoric. Lost Citv. is heinc brought from New Mexico to reconstruct recon-struct a few sections of the ancient city and to participate in the pageant. At the opening of the pageant the Zunis will be seen leading the life of the early residents during the prehistoric pre-historic days. Their ceremonial dances, methods of preparing food, and other diversions will be shown. This scene will carry the spectator over a long period of time, until the advent of the Pah Utes, who inhabited inhabit-ed the territory at a later date. Then will follow a scene showing the warfare that was carried on be- tween the Pueblos and the Pah Utes, which resulted in the driving out of the former race. The scenes illustrative of the Indian In-dian period of habitation will be under un-der the direction of Mr. C. T. Turbe-fill Turbe-fill of the Heye Foundation, an expert ex-pert on early Indian manners and customs. The next act will portray the advent ad-vent of the Spanish explorers. In this scene the mingling of the habits and customs of the Ofd World with the New will be shown. Instructors from the Nevada State University will direct this scene, which will be one of the most colorful of the pageant. pa-geant. A large number of people will be used in this scene, and the swaggering Spaniards will be shown as they were in their monrls nf con quest, bringing with them the songs, stories and dances of the places throughout the world they had visited visit-ed in their travels and explorations. Following this scene there will be depicted the arrival of Jedediah Smith and his party of explorers who came through that section of the country in 1827. This scene will be under the direction of John E. Perkins Per-kins of Overton, one of the discovers of the Lost City, and a student of the early history of that section. Following this scene will be one depicting the arrival of the Mormon settlers. Plans are being made to make this feature one of the most spectactular of the pageant. The services of Mr. E. H. Eastmond will be secured to direct this scene. Mr. Eastmond is an authority on Mormon Mor-mon history and has managed many pageants at Utah celebrations. Several Sev-eral score of people with their primi-:ive primi-:ive means of transDortatinn a,q methods of life will participate in this scene. The pageant will be brought up to the present date by an ensemble of all the participants, and the addition of the school children of the Muddy and Virgin valleys; who will sing smgs fitted to the occasion and participate. par-ticipate. in a tableau under the Star Spangled Banner and the flag of Nevada. Prior to the tableau it is planned to introduce Mr. Chaloner, whose generous gift has made the staging of the pageant possible, and whose vision and foresight , in matters of this kind has done much to bring the people of the country to a better and - inzauon of the rich, historical histori-cal background of this state The pageant will be staged in the hving place 0f the prehistoric people. The stage will be an amphitheather of reconstructed buildings, and will Sor , fld lightS frora a Portable electric lighting plant. One of the largest electrical companies in America has donated the services of a lighting expert for the occasion Arrangements will be made 'for the seating of several thousand people. peo-ple. However, owing to the large number who may desire to remain over night it is advisable for those contemplating remaining in the Va" ley to carry bedding and camp equip-to equip-to I a vWiUbe Pe to return o Las Vegas after the pageant in bout t an(J Qne haf h "er an improved highway. |