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Outline Eugene Field Pageant, St. Joseph Newspaper, 1950Entry/Object ID
AM1989.11.4Scope and Content
Outline Eugene Field Pageant, St. Joseph Newspaper, 1950. Preliminary plans for the pageant to be presented September 3 at the Eugene Field ceremony on the grounds of the St. Joseph Museum by members of the committee named to plan the program. Bartlett Boder is one of the sponsors of the ceremony.
Verses written by Eugene Field, a former member of the Gazette staff who became famous as a writer of children's poems, were selected by members of the committee. A stringed orchestra has been engaged to play the background music for the pageant. The public will be invited to attend the ceremony, which will be given in memory of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous poet.
Members attending the meeting were: Ada Clair Darby, Frances Holly, Dward Moore, Emily Stauber, Roy Coy, John Pooley Wright and Dean Wilde.
Organizations sponsoring the celebration are the Historical Society, the museum, the Community Theater, Typographical Union No. 40 and the Women's Press Club.Lexicon
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