Gcr-v\JOU->M'^ 0-/;iJ3aiJi5AlR^ w'/UJi^JL/ F 72 .C46 C7 Copy 1 pageant of tfje Cfjarleg ^ibtv September 19, 1914 at 3.00 o'clock ifletropolitan ^arfe ILmitJ, (©uinobequin Iloab iBtetoton Hotocr jFallsf rrz Community Club Eiber pageant on tfje panfeg of tfje Cfjarles c« -* c* Lines and Episodes by ISABELLA FISKE CONANT Dances Originated and Directed by ANNA EASTMAN FROST If 1^ 1f^ The use of the Pageant grounds is by courtesy of the Metropolitan Park Commissioners. Thanks are due them and many others for their co-operation. Copyright, 1914, by Isabella Fiske Conant SEP 22 1914 C(,A380655 Committees Executice Commiltec Miss Marion Niles, Director of the Community Club, Ck airman Miss Gertrude Cahill Miss Martha Doonan Advertising Committee Edith Early, Chairman Mary Anderson Catherine Cooney Nellie Cooney Agnes Delaney Costume Committee Mrs. Thomas A. West, Chairman Miss Alice Delaney Mrs. Bernard Early Miss Florence Hyde Pageant Grounds Committee Mr. Roland B. Pendergast. Mr. William Taffe Miss Edith Early Miss Evelyn Robbins, Gertrude Dunleavy Alice Gleason Mary Howard Emily Rourke Miss Lydia Hyde Mrs. Harold Niles Mrs. Woodford Taylor Chairman Mr. David Warren ^atronegseg Mrs. Cecil Q. Adams Mrs. G. Harold Adams Mrs. George B. Ager Mrs. Roger W. Babson Mrs. David E. Baker Mrs. Robert M. Baker Mrs, Schuyler S. Bartlett Miss Katherine Lee Bates Mrs. Wallace C. Boyden Mrs. Gamaliel Bradford Mrs. N. B. Kneass Brooks Mrs. Arthur E. Brown Mrs. Edwin 0. Childs, Jr. Mrs. Charles E. Cobb Miss Helen Temple Cooke Miss Elizabeth Crehore Mrs. Frederick M. Crehore Mrs. Howard P. Converse Mrs. Frank F. Davidson Mrs. William Doonan Mrs. Bernard Early Mrs. James Early Miss Sarah P. Eastman Mrs. Moses Ellis Mrs. Herbert L. Felton Mrs. Irving J. Fisher Mrs. George B. Folsom Mrs. Charles S. French Miss Sarah Fuller Mrs. Josiah H. Goddard Mrs. Allen Greenwood Mrs. Orrin C. Hart Mrs. Charles E. Hatfield Mrs. Edward B. Haskell Mrs. Walter A. Hersey Mrs. Parke W. Hewins Mrs. Royal R. Heuter Mrs. Theoda J. Hill Miss Amy Homans Mrs. Edward C. Hood Mrs. Hammond Hovey Miss Edith M. Howes Mrs. Arthur Hunnewell Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell Mrs. Anna H. Hunting Mrs. Charles H. Jones Mrs. John Lee Miss Isabel Little Mrs. Arnold Livermore Mrs. George H. Lowe Mrs, George L. Lovett Mrs. Mary R. Martin Mrs. Louville V. Niles Mrs. William C. Norcross Mrs, John E. Oldham Mrs. Edward R. Peirce Mis? Ellen F. Pendleton Mrs. Roland B. Pendergast Mrs. Edward A. Perkins Mrs, Edward W. Perkins Mrs. George S. Perry Mrs. Waldo E. Pratt Mrs. Helene M. Priest Mrs. Lucy E. Prescott Mrs. J. Murray Quimby Miss Mary C. Sawyer Mrs. Joseph B. Seabury Miss Vida D. Scudder Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw Mrs. John H. Sheridan Mrs. Isaac Sprague Mrs. Chrles H. Spring Mrs. Charles E. Stearns Mrs. Edward Stevens Mrs. George W. St. Amant Mrs. Robert W. Studley Mrs. George A. Sweetser Mrs, Henry P. Talbot Mrs. Arthur Tucker Mrs. Chauncey W. Waldron Mrs. Henry C. Ward Miss Cornelia Warren Mrs. John W. Weeks Dr. Isabel Weston Dr. Frances Westergreen Mrs. George B. Whitten Mrs. Joseph F Wight Miss Annie B. Williams Mrs. Guy M. Winslow prologue The river flows 'neath bridge and arch Through meadows, still and slow. Past oak and willow, pine and larch, While, on its banks, in ceaseless march, Our generations go. It rises amid farmsteads old. Where long-past years come back. On legends of an age of gold, Of wood-folk or of Indian told All down its curving track. We summon back awhile today Its lost reflections bright. And let our fancy dream and play Along its shimmering memory-way Of golden underlight. It seems that now once more we see The fairy or the faun; Our children whisper you and me. That these wee people still are free, Nor is their magic gone. We listen where the echoes call Under the arches' span. And as the sweet notes faint and fall Our childhood comes back to us all And shouts again to Pan. Our best-loved poet watched it flow 'Neath skies shining or gray, And from him many tales we know Of folk that wandered long ago All down its winding way. Wabun, the East Wind, loved a maid Of Hiawatha's line. His name beside our stream has stayed And o'er the waters where they strayed Twin stars of light, they shine. Leif Ericson, his prow made fast Beside the river's mouth. The wide Atlantic crossed at last. His lot at Norumbega cast. Following the river south. Along the river speeds the train, Beside it shines the wire. Unto the great town on the main The wide stream flashes back again, A flood of sunset fire. O'er it sweet charity a tower Has built for children blind, Who, more than all the world, have power Beauty to feel, and hear its shower Of bells upon the wind. Out from its northward factories go Where once were wildwood flowers, Dials that no more fast than slow Move for man's days of joy than woe. And measure human hours. Our old sun-dials used to dream Mid rose and hollyhock Now they are gone, but not the gleam Of silver tides that swing and seem The beat of Nature's clock. Quaint costumes once made bright this street And old Saint Mary's knows And tells, in wordless chiming sweet Of how the present changes fleet Into the past, and goes. A sleeper lies there 'neath a stone. Moss-grown, without a name. Yet has a poet made him known. And loved; in fireside stories shown And won him worthy fame. Our once-free waters, changeful blue. The mill-wheel tosses white. To serve our need their purpose new. Let us not shame their service true. But love, like them, the light. The river winds throughout the town. In gentle, devious ways. Upon it autumn leaves drift down. And some are bright and some are brown. Like our own human days. Like it, our lives wind on today. In quiet ways and free. With m.any a task beside the way. And many a meadow, all for play. And then, at last, the sea. EPILOGUE Here by;' still waters, all at peace The world seems, yet afar Is deadly strife of enemies. God grant this conflict soon may cease And earth no more know war. €pi6oht6 PROLOGUE Singing is heard. As it dies out, the Spirit of the Present approaches and speaks, through the prologue, giving the story of the river and its symbolism of human life. The Prologue and Epilogue are read. EPISODE ONE Location: Echo Bridge, at Necoton Upper Falls. As she concludes, the reflections come dancing forth Spirits of the River, they are clothed in such colours as, season after season, are reflected from clouds, sky and flowers. They represent, too, memories and imaginings of the past and dreams of the future. The reflections dance and disappear, the arches appear and form, the reflections return and dance through the arches. Echo is heard. The Reflections sink down wearied. The mists come to refresh them, and dance around them. As they disappear, the little men of the hillside come cautiously out. After making sure that they are alone, they frolic, and play at nine-pins, but, discovered by the fairies, they hastily run off. The fairies also dis- appear. The reflections return and dance, through the arches. They sink down, wearied. The mists come to refresh them, and dance around them. Echo is heard. EPiSODE TWO Longfellow's Legends of the River A. The Reflections disappear as the East Wind arises, Wabun, the ancestor of Hiawatha. He seeks the maiden Wabun-Annung, the Star of the Morning, who comes singing along the river bank. Wabun drives before him the mists that hide her from him and dances. The stars come out and shine and draw the lovers to them- selves, according to the legend. The Spirit of Colonization B. Leif Ericson and his followers are seen, coming up the river in canoes. They land. From afar, two Indians watch, amazed. The Spirit of Norumbega, the dream-city that he is to found, beckons him on. The watchful Indians follow. EPISODE THREE * The Electrification of the Railroad. The smoke of the train over powers the Spirit of the River. She shrinks and cowers. The cinders exult and sport. Electricity, the Spirit of Invention, raises and restores the Spirit of the River, till it shines and sparkles in the full sunshine. EPISODE FOUR The Bell-Tower The figure of Light leads a group of little blind children. The bell-ringers dance for them and ring their chimes. The children are from the Perkins in- stitution at Watertown on the River. EPISODE FIVE The Wallham Watch Factory. A clock-dance is given by the Waltham Girls' Club, some of whom are watch-makers at Waltham. EPISODE SIX The River-Gardens of the Old Homestead. The fairies bring the flowers into the garden. They go back to their riverside and return with the bees and butterflies which they have called, then disappear. Folk in old-time costume enter the garden followed by gardeners, to whom they assign tasks, then go. Sam Lawson, made famous in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Oldtown Folks," loafs, while the other farm-hands work. The village children, out at recess, discover Sam, and rushing in, beg him for a story. He enter- tains them, while the gardeners also drop their work and listen, till the district school-teacher comes, ring- ing her bell. She chides Sam, who slouches off, followed by the men. The garden is left to the flowers. The sun comes out and shines and the flowers follow his rays. EPISODE SEVEN From the Source to the Sea. The curving map of the river forms. The autumn leaves drift down upon the water. The Spirit of the River dances, and passes along its course between the banks and is met by the Tides of the Sea. EPILOGUE America, the Peacemaker. America enters, bearing the Flag. Europe approaches her, bound with the shackles of war. America frees her and unfurls the Red Cross Flag. Meanwhile, national airs are played. Cast of Characters The Spirit of the Present, Edith Early, President The Spirit of the River, Anna Eastman Frost REFLECTIONS Echo Marion H. Niles Margaret Anderson Mary Anderson Alice Caine Nora Cooney Ethel Cooper Madeline Dodge Edith Early Agnes Flynn Elizabeth Gildea Mabel Hovland Helen Warren Molly Williams LITTLE MEN OF THE HILLSIDE Carl Barkhouse Richard Corcoran Peter Dunn Arthur Manning Joseph Smith Joseph Tangney Robert Taylor James Thompson ARCHES Dorris Armstrong Mary Cooney Anna Higgins May Howard Josephine Pendergast Helen Pendergast Katherine Pendergast Annie Flynn Annie Cooney Bessie Cooney Jennie Cooer Mary Delaney Alice Donahue MISTS Helen Flynn Anna Gleason Marie Laffie Alice Murphy LEGENDARY AND HISTORICAL Wabun the East Wind, Ada Blake Wabun — Annung, Margaret Dodd Leif Ericson, John Cunningham Norumbega, the Spirit of Colonization, Elizabeth Chandler Nora Cooney Madeline Dodge Mary Downey STARS Mary Slamin Nellie Slamin Florence Taffe NORSEMEN Herbert Bancroft Harold Brown Archie Connolly Lewis Connolly Raymond Cunningham Charles Eliot Philip Enholm John Higgins Joseph Spring Clarence Taylor Mrs. Joseph H. Seaver INDIANS Carl M. Safford SPIRITS OF THE SMOKE Mrs. Roland B. Pendergast Miss Lelia Remnitz CINDERS Carl Barry James Bowler Raymond Brown Fred Cadman William Collins Electricity, the Spirit of Intention, Light, Catherine Cooney Children of the Perkins Institute Bell Ringers Sentriss Curlin William Finn Edward Harrington Paul Harrington Patrick Tangney Edward Cooney Roy Early Stanley Partridge WALTHAM CLUB GIRLS Nellie Flanagan Margaret Murphy Lillian Peck May Sullivan Rose Thompson Mae Wolcott Fairies Dorothy Barry Grace Barry Marie Collins Dorothy Cooper Eleanor Cooper Helen Cooper Pamelia Gifford Hollyhock.s Viola Dennis Mary Finn Alice Gleason Mary Murphy Roses Margaret Bowler Alice Calden Pearl Cooper Elizabeth Davis Margaret Donahue Bumble-bees and Butterflies Elizabeth Cooper Rose Finn Etta McDonough Esther Healy Old-time Folk Katherine Cooney GARDEN SCENE Mary Harrington Ethel Mclver Anastasia Murphy Edna Peele Helen Tangney Helen Thompson Esther Thompson Bernice Rourke Emily Rourke Clara West Lucy Young Annie Dunn Florence Healey Jennie Morrill Annie O'Neil Theresa Tangney Wilhemina Rourke Lillian Sanford Ida White Ellen Murphy School Teacher, Mary Thompson School Children Stanley Brown Donald Mclver Fred Collins Eddie Mclver Jane Curry Henry Mclver Frank Davis William McPhail Bernard Malloy Helen Taffe Theodore Malloy William Taffe Sam Lawson, W. Lee Burchstead Gardeners Edward Cahill Philip Early Sun, Laura West THE TIDES OF THE SEA Elizabeth Raynes Katherine Sewall Persis Stearns June Tarr EPILOGUE America, Mrs. Charles Stearns Europe, Nellie Cooney Singing By Members of the Impromptu Club, Brookiine Mrs. Walton U. Crocker, Director Trio, by Arthur Foote. Little Pappoose by Cadman In Fair Seville by Bolero The Little Creek goes Winding by Arthur Foote Instrumental Ralph E. Brown and Orchestra — Strings, Flute, Cor- net, Piano L'Escarpolette Barns La Boheme Puccin i Troldtog Grieg Solvejgs Lied Greig Intermezzo (Henry VIII) German The White Dawn is Stealing Cadman Wedding Day Grieg Torch Dance German Clock Symphony Orth Shepherd's Dance German Spring Grieg Danse Russe Trepak, (Nut Crackers' Suite) Tschaikowsky Dance of the River, (written for Mrs. Frost) Valse Triste Sibelius National airs and March George Wong Laundry 2258 Washington Street - - Newton Lower Falls Qleason Bros. BROWN'S ORCHESTRA Ralph E, Brown, Leader Melrose Raymond Dilucci 'THE FRUITMAN' HEINE FELDMAN Shoemaker Br. JF. ^. Seating Dentist Waban Block Wellesley Wm. B. Saunders Carpenter and Builder McHale's Market James A. Early LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 069 477 L. V. NILES Real Estate 60 State St. American Mica Co. John Dolan Coal Co. Compliments of iilibtilesiex & pos^ton Street Eailtoap Companp