Show s The Patriotic Pageant Pleases A Capacity x House Tuesday Night By Dy Mrs D. D L. L Carmody The Patriotic Pageant given under the auspices of the Womans Woman's Physical cal Ical Culture class at the Myton Opera House Douse last Tuesday night was one of the ri most st unI unique iio performances ev ever r staged staged in Myton 1 I During the p past st year many large cities have been the scenes of such I pageants pageants but this is the first of the kind ever essayed here It was a most I pleasant as well a aS instructive performance performance performance per- per perI I and congratulations are I due not only to Mrs 1 A. A L. L Rice Mrs Mrs' A A. J J. J Charles and the ladies ladles who so so ably assisted them including Mrs R. R J J. J Enochs musician but also to the performers themselves who by their tireless ss an and enthusiastic practice I made the entertainment such a suc suc- cess t The pageant opened with the dance of f the flowers and the perfumes of sunny sunny Italy visualized by Georgia Philipps a fairy In pink scattering flowers and dancing with inimitable grace The were the second number and their romping game expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the social life lIfo of young people people people peo peo- in that far clime They were Mrs Ed Holder Mrs Oscar Cooper Mrs Alfred J. J Char Charles es Miss Naoma Brown Drown Miss 1 Gladys Dow Miss Pearl Wall i Miss Etta EUa Edwards Miss 1 Lois V Wheeler heeler Followed the picturesque Japanese opened by a little song of the Celestials Celestials Celestials Celes Celes- sung by Miss Delora Delora- Mathews There is ever a suggestion blossoms fans and mystery about the ladles ladies of or Japan and the subtle suggestion suggestion sug sug- of the far east was well re reflected reflected re re- fleeted in the dance and costumes of the dancers They They wore the typical kimona costume of the Geisha girls and Miss 1 Wells in a blue kimona with big yellow sash sat at tea table i i drinking tea while Mrs George E. E Philipps Miss 1 Delora Debra Mathews Mrs 1 Jennie Driskel Miss Lois Wheeler Mrs Joseph E. E Holder danced In Oriental fashion They were recalled recalled recall- recall ed d several several times Umes The Th Russian da dance ce was carted out by ten little Myton l girls who typified the the fun of that ice bound land and with their wild waving arms and graceful motions suggested to our minds sleigh bells and snowflakes They were Alaska Wyota Marie Bywater Marguer- Marguer rite rile Coltharp Nellie NelUe Fowler Mildred Mildred Mil Mil- dred Rogers Myrtle Rogers FernI Fern Covey I Emma l Broome Thelma Tanner Tanner Tan Tan- ner j f Tho The Scotch lassies were preceded by hy- Miss lUss Naomi Brown Drown in costume who sung Within a Mile of Edinboro i I Town an am then the highland lassies lassies' came camp lilting in and gave us a very very pretty re rendition of the highland t sing f the audience was was was' by now so sowell I well ell warmed up t that at th they y insisted upon encores encores to every dance and were vere most vociferous In their ap ap- ap- ap The highland lassies were Mrs Alfred Charles Miss Naomi Brown Drown Mrs George Philipps Miss Lillian na Babcock cock and Miss Del Delora ra Mathews 1 They wore the national costume caps and socks and so realistic were they that one could almost hear the skirling of the bag bag- pipes Perhaps the little dance of the Dutch which came next had most of that quality called sympathy sympathy sympathy thy of any of the dances and the four kiddies were recalled several times perhaps because the kiddies looked so Dutch and perhaps because the click of their heels sounded like the I thump of wooden sho shoes s. s They were Neli Nellie Fowler George Georg Fowler Thelma Thelma Thelma Thel Thel- ma Waters and Wyota The Irish jig opened most appropriately appropriately ly with the old song The Rocky Rond Road to Dublin sung by br Mrs I Ed Holder The costumes of bright green with black bodice were were most becoming and the dance was well re- re received received re re- I The Irish were Mrs Ed Holder Holder Holder Hol Hol- I der Miss Etta Edwards awards Mrs Jennie Jen Driskel Mrs Fritz Schleinitz Miss I Lois Wheeler Mrs Oscar Cooper The next number on the program I was the Spanish dance by Mrs Joe Holder and Miss Lillian Babcock They were costumed in scarlet skirts with sequins and ad fringe black bodices find and their hair worn high There There was the essence of old Madrid in IIi their graceful motions and intricate steps and the audience felt that to see that dance alone would well have repaid them From From Spain to Africa is only a strip 1 of ocean and the negroes were the next number They were quite as asI spectacular in their way as any part part I o of the program Miss Alice Todd I Miss Lillian Babcock Miss Lois Wheeler and Mrs Jennie Driskel so sowell sowell I well disguised in their make up that i fit it would have been impossible to recognize recognize rec- rec them sang Kentucky I Babe rec-I rec and then th-en the darkies darkles picked real cotI cotton cotton cot cot- ton in a soft soft d dred red light and to the I music of or that River and we wo were carried like magic to Dixie Afterwards from the groop a small boy detached himself and did a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- clog dance to the tho spirited music music mu- mu sic of Dixie and believe me Joey Cline is Is some dancer He danced tirelessly if i and while white he danced Earl Elliott Elliott Lavor and Devear Denver Dennis turned summersaults in sheer de de- light The r rest st- st of the tho negroes were wee Ii Miss Gladys Wells Miss Gladys Dow Dowl I Miss Etta Edwards Mrs FritzI Fritz i I Schleinitz j r I This most entertaining performance perform perform- ance nce ended with a flag drill composed compos composed compos compos- ed of oC Hazel Smith Ruby ubY Fowler Emma Emma Emma Em Em- compOS f ma Thelma Tanner Alaska Continues Continued on La Last Page i PATRI PATRIOTIC PAGEANT PLEASES 1 j i Continued from Page On Nellie Neme Fowler Nellie and Pearl Pear Ireland Laura Dennis Edith I Je Jessop s p Alice Sutton Button Wyota Oster- Oster gaard They were a beautiful crowd I I of little girls and performed the the dlf- dlf i cult evolutions of the flag drill with i I p perfect precis precision on with much credit i themselves aid n themselves and Mrs H. H C. C Ward I Ir r them It It culminated in a j I r be beautiful tableau with Mrs Rice as' as as as I Columbia la and all an nations artistically 1 t ly grouped on on the stage The Opera House was filled filled fill fill- ed d to overflowing and the the audle audience ce expressed themselves asmore as asmore asmore more than pleased The amount realized realized realized re re- was nearl nearly and the proceeds proc proceeds pro pro- c eds go to defraying the expenses d df the the Women's W mens Physical Culture club |