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Show Street Pageants Shape Up To Climax Centennial With the Utah Centennial approaching ap-proaching its climax, two gigantic gigan-tic street pageants are now near-ing near-ing completion to be presented in Salt Lake City on July 23 and 24. The "pageants", actually gorgeous parades, are set for 8:30 a. m. on July 23, and 6 p. m. on July 24. Already prepared are 43 magnificent mag-nificent floats carrying out the parade's theme of "100 years of Progress." There will be also county floats, equine units, a parade of queens and other features. fea-tures. The July 23 parade will be headed by 10,000 boy scouts to be encamped in Salt Lake City at the time. The July 24 parade will find county floats displayed. There will be 29 bands. The parade will require about 2 hours in passing. No attempt I has been made for quantity, but in beauty it will supass all previous pre-vious Covered Wagon Day parades par-ades which have been justly famous and will rival such parades pa-rades as the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena, and the Rose Festival Fes-tival at Portland. The theme floats include Uni-tel Uni-tel Nations, Nations of the World, Queens' float, prehistoric days, early Indian life, entry of Father Escalante, Jim Bridger, Old Fqrt, Donner party, exodus from Nau voo, Mormon Batallion, discov-lery discov-lery of gold, pioneer social life, This is the Place, handcart companies, com-panies, farming the desert, crickets crick-ets and gulls, founding of University Uni-versity of Deseret, Pony Express, development of mining, building the Temple, Building the City and County Building, light of the world, and a score of others. The costumes will be the most gorgeous seen since the Coronation Corona-tion of the queen. The pa.rade is expected to be so beautiful it could happen only once in a hundred years. |