. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. both pageanters aii<laudience; and after they had sahitetithe flag and stacked arms, came a half-dozen folk dances, representing thedifterent nationalities prominent in Taun-ton. Then the solo dancer of the Pag-eant, Miss Tanner, danced to j)a(ii()ticairs, and the Star Spangled Baimerwas sung as a solo, l)oth pageanters andaudience joining in the closing chorus. As has come to be the custom in mostrecent pageants, the ei)isodes were sep-arated by ditterent solo dance
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. both pageanters aii<laudience; and after they had sahitetithe flag and stacked arms, came a half-dozen folk dances, representing thedifterent nationalities prominent in Taun-ton. Then the solo dancer of the Pag-eant, Miss Tanner, danced to j)a(ii()ticairs, and the Star Spangled Baimerwas sung as a solo, l)oth pageanters andaudience joining in the closing chorus. As has come to be the custom in mostrecent pageants, the ei)isodes were sep-arated by ditterent solo dances, bearingsome relation to one or the other of theincidents they followed or solo dances, as well as the Americandance in the flnale, were executed l)yMiss Virginia Tanner, who was the sokidancer of the Boston-1915 Pageantof a Perfect City. The successful performance of theTaunton Pageant is to be credited toMiss Tanner, who had entire charge ofthe Pageant dancing; and to JamesGilbert, under whose direction the pag-eanters were rehearsed and the per-formances condncfcl. Its realization has 148 NEW BOSTON. THE COURT OF GEORGE THE THIRD for years been the ambition of the authorof the book, Ralph Davol, whose energyand determination persisted in carryingthe undertaking through, despite thediscouragement of some of those whomight have been expected to be locallyinterested. Despite this feeling, the per-formance passed off to the completesuccess and interest of the audienceswhich, on the Fourth of July, numberedsome three or four thousand people. As is usual in the history of Pageantry, theperformances brought out unexpectedtalent, latent in many of the partici-pants. So successful was the affair thatit is now proposed to maintain the am-phitheater, as it was arranged for thepageant, with the expectation of utiliz-ing it for other out-door performances,—and another pageant is already beingdiscussed as a not too distant possi-bility!
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