Possibly South Australian Centenary "Pageant of Empire" costumes (November, 1936) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Possibly South Australian Centenary "Pageant of Empire" costumes (November, 1936) / pellethepoet
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Real photo postcard. Postally unused.Found in an antique shop in Adelaide."The program moved towards its climax in late November. On 27 and 28 November South Australia’s school children presented a Pageant of Empire. This extraordinary event was the brainchild of Miss Adelaide Miethke, redoubtable Inspector of Schools, and outstanding organizer. In five acts over the two days, Miss Miethke assembled some 14,000 costumed children in a series of patriotic tableaux, directing the whole and keeping order with her ‘stentorian voice’. There were five tableaux in all – one each for the British Isles, Canada, India and Australia, before a final tableau in which Britannia ‘gathered her different peoples around her’. No stereotype was spared. The children were dressed as roses, daffodils, Scottish thistles, shamrocks, Grenadier Guards and yeomen of the guard. But there were also Aboriginal people, North American Indians, Indian dancing girls, rajahs, bunyips, kangaroos and soldiers answering the call to arms. The culminating piece presented the centenary’s main message, ‘Peace and Goodwill’, in the centre of a huge circle. Some 13,300 children were positioned on the oval for this tableau! Six hundred and eighty ‘Girls of the Cross’ formed the word ‘Peace’, 900 ‘Wattle Blossoms’ made up the year 1936 and 1,100 ‘Roses’ represented ‘Goodwill’. A committee of 700 co-ordinated the thousands of mothers who made the costumes. The whole was described as a ‘brilliant and heart stirring spectacle’." - adelaidia.sa.gov.au/events/centenary-celebrations-1936 |
| 撮影日 | 1936-01-01 00:00:00 |
| 撮影者 | pellethepoet , Sydney, Australia |
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