Visual Education (Jan-Nov 1920)

40 Visual Education The occasion was observed by a fur brigade of Indians, trappers, and voyageurs on Red river, and a pow-wow and peace pipe ceremonies between the Indians and the governor of the company, Sir Robert Kindersley, who came from London for the event. Prom Labrador, from the Pacific coast, from the shores of the Arctic ocean, came old time servants of the company together with Indians from a dozen scattered tribes to renew the ancient friendship between the tribesmen and the company. After an oration delivered with dignity and skill by Kinewakan, chief of the Wahpeton Sioux, the peace pipe was smoked at old Fort Garry, which once faced the wilderness alone, the last post on the trail, and which saw the first treaty of peace signed in 1871 between Canada and the western Indians. Thousands of people watched the impressive rites that marked the day. The anniversary will be celebrated later by successive street pageants in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria, all of which towns grew up about old Hudson's Bay Company posts. • • • IN Scribner's Magazine for May are five delightful etchings of Old Plymouth which will charm all lovers of the quaint old town. They are the work of Sears Gallagher done in honor of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims, and appear with peculiar appropriateness at this time, when so much is being done throughout the country to celebrate the memorable event. • • • IT is reported that the Conservation Committee of the State of New York is to make a series of films showing the beauties of New York State. These productions will be distributed by the Educational Film Corporation, 729 7th Ave., New York City. • • • THE following is reported from Albany, New York, on May 1st: "The local exchange of Universal yesterday gave a private screening of a picture which will be featured in connection with the National Ship-by-Truck and Good Roads week. Present at the showing were Secretary of State Hugo and a number of other state officials. The film will have its first New York showing at the Capitol theater on Saturday morning, May 15, at a meeting at which Secretary of State Hugo will act as chairman and at which Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall and Governor Alfred E. Smith are also expected to speak." • • • £{pTT^HE early struggle in Kansas to I determine whether or not the -* State would be free will be depicted in an historical pageant to be staged at the University of Kansas at the annual May fete to be given May 15. The pageant is being written by Prof. C. F. Skilton of the university." — C. S. Monitor, April 29, 1920. • • • THE Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, is planning to present a flower pageant on Tree Day, May 19. A hillside on the campus will be used as the setting and the cast will include one hundred of the college girls. Included among the day's events is the spectacular staging of "Joan of Arc" by the senior class. jf jf. jf THE tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims in America from the Mayflower will be commemorated by the British Societies of San Francisco with a pageant requiring a cast of 650 people, on Empire Day, May 24, in which they will be assisted by the Bay cities and the New England Association. Characters will be correctly costumed and genuine relics will be a feature of the historical tableaux. The origin of the earliest New England colonies will be shown by symbolic groupings, and British and American veterans of the world war will join in presenting "Reunited." A Carnegie Ross, British Consul-General, is chairman of the committee of arrangements. The author and director of the pageant is Charles B. Sedgwick. The proceeds will go to local British charities. — C. S. Monitor, April 30, 1920. • • • THE Literary Digest in the number of May first quotes at length from an article of Alfred Pittman in "Factory" dealing with results obtained by the use of moving pictures in the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio.