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974.62 H25ter hp The Hartford Tercentenary Historical Pageant Replica of the Thomas Hooker House Saturday, June 2 0, 1936 2:30 P. M. D. S. T. Bushnell Park HARTFORD TERCENTENARY COMMISSION J. WATSON BEACH, Chairman THOMAS ]. BuRKE MICHAEL A. RrTA ANSON T. McCooK w. A. LINNANE C. B. WHITTELSEY, Secretary CONN. STATE LIBRARY 3 SEP 10 1949 Cast PROLOGUE EPISODE XII CONNECTICUT ... .. .. .. ..... .. ... .... hillian Barlow MusEs: Audrey Creller, Dorothea Keyes, Sylvia Fishman, SPIRIT OF COLONIAL HARTFORD .... ........ Horace Reed Betty Ramino, Mildred Abeloff, Gertrude Sharnik, Libby Handler, Sylvia Baggish, Bernice Wise. SPIRIT OF MODERN HARTFORD ... ... .... Richard Kaplan NATIONALITIES: Rita Paraachi, Betty Ahern, Edna Nor EPISODE I mandan, Helen Lewanuk, Emily Ramino, Anna Zawad ski, Molly Margolefsky, Frances Fishman, Frances INDIANS: Patricia Dillon, Muriel Sidrane, Libby Anolick, Destito, Frances Ragazzi, Erminia Rolando, Sylvia Dorothy Ragazzi, Anna Ginsburg, Eli Margolin, Irving Kotovsky, Lillian Darling, Betty Rome, Betty Con Pinsky, Julius Fegelman, Raymond Jacobs, Benj. nolly, Geraldine Keyes, Beatrice Shafman, Bessie Mar Homar, Albert Reffin and Dance Group. golefsky, Dorothy Monahan, Edith Costardo, Edith CHIEF: Raymond Markowitz. Wei!, Charlotte Gorban, Marie Bonadies, Bertha Git ScoUTS: Norton Levit, Murray Bower. son, Harriet Kirshinitz. INDIAN SOLOIST: Cliff Loomis. HERALD: Walter Neiman. EPISODE II HARTFORD: Mary Boyce. DUTCHMEN: Paul Bornstein, Harold Margolin, Kenneth SCHOOL CHILDREN PROCESSIONAL: Mary McCullough, Sophie Paulovitch, Bernard Blum. Cohen, May Anderson, Isabelle Festa, Elsie Stanish, Katherine Stanish, Nora Peak, Dorothy Peak, Juliet EPISODES III, IV, VI, VII, VIII Hersh, Annette Krachavsky, Mary Vernile, Nancy Austin, Doria Squires, Helene Moss, Dawn Barlow, EARLY SETTLERs-MEN: Robert Cavanaugh, Joseph Nolan, Frida Wicke, Erika Wicke, Jeane Fay, Barbara Glynn, Morris Steinberg, Harold Hahn, Norman King, John Lois Dickerman, Elaine McDonald, Edith Kriwitzky, Foran, Bernard Conroy, Robert Moses, David Werber, Shirley Viner, Ethel Melicovsky, Lillian Levin, Sara Leonard Ravich, Edward White, Bernard Lapp, Israel Gordon, Rose Pizzoli, Annie Pizzoli, Madeline Della Tabatsky, George Meltzer. fera, Lucile Cieri, Merle Clymer, Leatrice Margolis, WOMEN: Dorothy Hasard, Helen Rundbaken, Elena Irene Fine, Lena Gordon, Leah Katzen, Virginia De- Petrini, Janet Roche, Betty McCarthy, Mary Rohan, 1ezzo, Ruth Silver, Dorothy Dimock, Grace Mancuso, Charlotte Stedman, Hope Barton, Virginia Okerfelt, Ethel Jacobson, Audrey Fortune, Patricia Ahearn, Shirley Russell, Frances Wines, Alice McDermott, Gladys Jacobson, Rose Mancuso, Freid a Samler, Ber Mary Meaney, Mary Lynch, Marion Fenn, Geraldine nice Samler, Bernice \Vise. Lowth, Mary Begley, Katherine Kinsella. CHILDREN: Elaine Chaperaux, Lenore Fisher, Lillian Gold TRUDA KASCHMAN-DANCE GROUP. (Three Vines, berg, Adele Gore, Annette Gore, May Margolin, Anna Children's Play, Symbolic, Union and Industry Dances.) Blum, Evelyn Patterson, Eleanor Picollo, Rebecca Bar Edith Moore, Sylvia Ludins, Yvonne Johnstone, Mary Alice schak, Gloria Ben Maor, Natalie Harris, Rhoda Aron Andrews, Alice Darling, Edith Whitman, Alvin Nickolais. son, Rhoda Polak, Fred Newton, Max Kantrowitz, Children: Laura Ludins, Morris Gitlin, Dolores Tondat, Herbert Apter, Howard Gore, Richard Paulovitch, Barbara Altman, Marlene Kaschmann, Burton .Moore, Jr. Herbert Fishman, Walter Neiman. GovERNOR ANDROS: Albert Euliano. COMMUNITY CENTER GROUPS UNDER DIRECTION GOVERNOR FLETCHER: Robert Lavenberg. OF SCOTT MORGAN, KATHERINE REEVES, EDWARD N. BAYARD: Francis Mottran. LARKIN. DRUMMER BoYs: Members of Boy Scout Corps. (Indian, Colonist Joys and Sorrows, Minuet and Military Drill Dances.) EPISODE X Evelyn and Dora Chamberlain, Catherine Vasco, Henrietta CHILDREN: Dorothy Cam berg, Grace Kantrowitz, Helen Malinoski, Lillian LaDucer, Dorothy LaDucer, Alice Mihan, Kantrowitz, Constance Dimock, Gloria Smith, Rosalie Doris Poulin, Sonya Sander, Mary \Valters, Clara Thibi Keyser, Rosalind Fruchtman, Eugene Solon, Milton deau, Alice Waller, Alice Bankoski, Alice Chabot, Rose Brand, Irving Rock, Lewis Levin. Permagolis, Irene Drouin. COLONIAL LADIES: Dance Group. CHOIR OF SCHOOL CHILDREN UNDER THE DIRECTION EPISODE XI OF MR, LEO ROY A~D MR. CLIFF LOOMIS LADIES: Mary Chesnulewick, Evelyn Vernick, Arline Lenox, from the following Schools: Arline Beaumont, Gertrude Litke, Mary Jane Purring West Middle ton. New Park Avenue MEN: Donald O'Keefe, Leo Samler, Victor Feingold, Lawrence Street Richard Bourn. St. Ann's CHILDREN: Ellen Morehardt, Shirley Fisher, Aleda Miller, Immaculate Conception Robert Charest, Jack Milne, Roy Anderson. Our Lady of Sorrows SOLDIERS: Dance Group. St. Joseph's Hartford Tercentenary Pageant By THE SCHOOL CHILDREN Compiled and Directed by Betty Reyna Older Staged under the Supervision of the Recreation Division, Hartford Park Department OVERTURE-Ruy BLAS . ............................................. ... ............... Mendelssohn CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Address by J. WATSON BEACH, Chairman, Hartford Tercentenary Committee Address by His Honor Mayor THOMAS J. SPELLACY Address by His Excellency Governor WILBUR L. CROSS PROLOGUE Connecticut Welcomes All Entrance of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford Dance of the Three Vines Entrance of the Spirit of Colonial Hartford Entrance of the Spirit of Modern Hartford EPISODE I AMONG THE EARLY INDIANS OF HARTFORD Indians at Daily Occupations Indian Maiden Dance EPISODE II DUTCH PARTY BUYS LAND The Purchase Indian Solo Dance "Land of the Sky Blue \Vaters"-Choir BALLET MUSIC FROM FAUST ............. ... .......... ................ ... ... .......... Gounod CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EPISODE III EARLY ENGLISH PARTY Samuel Stone, William Goodwin and the Adventurers come to prepare for Hooker Party EPISODE IV ARRIVAL OF THE HOOKER PARTY Hymns-Psalms 119 and 8+-Choir EPISODE V Dance depicting Joys and Sorrows of Colonists EPISODE VI A DAY IN EARLY HARTFORD Drummer awakens Colonists " Daily Tasks Children's Play Dance Call to Meeting FINLANDIA .... ..... ...... ..... ..................... ... .................................... Sibelius CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EPISODE VII GOVERNOR ANDROS CLAIMS THE CHARTER EPISODE VIII GOVERNOR FLETCHER COMES TO TAKE COMMAND OF THE MILITIA Wadsworth and His Drummer Boys defy the Governor EPISODE IX SYMBOLIC DANCE The courage of the Colonists in the Face of Danger EPISODE X SCENE AT CLOSE OF REVOLUTIONARY vVAR The news of the Treaty of Peace at Paris brings joy to Hartford Minuet EPISODE XI SCENE AT BEGINNING OF CIVIL WAR 1. Soldiers Drill 2. Battle Hymn of the Republic-Choir 3. Dance of Union PASTEL MINUET ....... .. ............... ................................................. Paradij CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EPISODE XII GROWTH OF HARTFORD IN CULTURE AND INDUSTRY Dance of Industry Processions of Muses Procession of Nationalities March and Music by Boy Scouts Bugle and Drum Corps Entrance of Girl Scouts Entrance of Hartford Procession of School Children Original Thomas Hooker Verse by ]. H. Crossley Tercentenary Hymn-St. Ann's Music-Choir America END Organ Accompaniment by Mr. Walter Dawley Costumes by Mrs. Ollee Patterson Thanks are Extended to Mr. Howard Bradstreet for historical data, Professor Waldo Seldon Pratt and Miss Frances Johnson for assistance in obtaining authentic music. In Memory of the First Settlers of Hartford John Haynes Thomas Lord Thomas Spencer Thomas Hooker Matthew Marven Thomas Stanton George Wyllys Gregory W olterton John Baysey Edward Hopkins Andrew Bacon John Hopkins Matthew Allyn John Barnard William Pratt Thomas \V ells Richard Goodman Nicholas Clark John Webster Nathaniel Richards Thomas Bull William Whiting John Pratt John Marsh John Talcott Thomas Birchwood \Villiam Holton Andrew \Varner George Graves Edward Elmer William Pentrey John Clark Francis Andrews William Westwood William Gibbons Richard Church James Olmsted John Crow James Cole Thomas Hosmer Edward Stebbing Zachariah Field Nathaniel Ward James Ensign John Skinner William Wadsworth George Steele Joseph Easton John White Stephen Post Thomas Hale John Steele George Stocking Richard Olmsted Thomas Scott Joseph Mygatt Samuel Hale William Goodwin Nathaniel Ely Richard Wrisley Thomas Stanly William Bloomfield Thomas Alcott Samuel Stone Thomas Judd Robert Bartlett Stephen Hart William Hill Thomas Selden William Spencer Richard Lord Thomas Root John Moody William Hyde William Parker William Lewis William Kelsey John Wilcox William Rusco John Arnold Samuel Greenhill Timothy Stanly Richard Butler Benjamin Burr Richard Webb Arthur Smith Ozias Goodwin William Andrews Robert Day Richard Seymour Samuel Wakeman John Maynard Thomas Bunce Jeremy Adams Seth Grant John Bidwell Richard Lyman William Heyton Clement Chaplin William Butler Thomas Bliss I ·rHE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1935. I ticut, prints by Connecticut artists featuring the work of Disbrowe and tions with floats from towns of Connecticut views; Connecticut other Connecticut artisans, includ- throughout the state. Tercentenary currency and coins, 1709-1781; books 1ng more than 1000 items. October 12-Reunlon of the Geer by Connecticut authors; Connecticut June 1-Beptember li-Llbrary family, Hotel Bond. imprints of the eighteenth century; and chapel, Trinity College; ex- . October 13-Union church serv-1 Opening To historical and other manuscripts. hibit of books and documents 11- 1ces. 1 ~Y 4-State Capitol, north wing, lustratin¥ history