Characters: [This instance of ‘Characters:’
added by transcriber]
Dorothy L. Dix
Members of the Committee
Chairman
Miss Dix appears before a Committee of the Legislature and is heard in an impassioned appeal on behalf of adequate provision and care for the mentally ill. The scene closes with the Committee indicating their approval and congratulating Miss Dix on her successful effort.
Music: Orchestra
“Maryland, My Maryland”
“Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”
SCENE V
OCCUPATIONAL-RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Men’s Crafts
Women’s Crafts
Men’s Sports
Women’s Sports
Maypole Dance
Supplementing the general medical work, the therapeutic value of organized occupational and recreational activities is gaining increasing recognition. Those arts and crafts lending themselves to graphic presentation are here selected: dyeing, weaving, spinning, basketry, caning, modelling, painting, pottery, metal work, net making, gardening, etc.: and similarly, in the recreative activities, tennis, golf, hockey, baseball, croquet, bowling, skiing, and skating. A Maypole dance closes the scene.
Music: Orchestra
“Boccherina”
“Henry VIII, Maypole Dance”
SCENE VI
INSPIRATIONS
Characters:
Hygeia
La Belle France
Britannia
Columbia
The closing scene is in the nature of a processional symbolizing international unity of purpose and a determination to pursue, until finally attained, the goal of Health and Happiness, personified by the goddess Hygeia.
Music: Orchestra
“Marseillaise”
“God Save the King”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
“The Star Spangled Banner”
“Tammany”
NAMES OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE EXERCISES[19]
E. Stanley Abbot, M.D. Philadelphia,
Pa.
Louise Acton White Plains,
N.Y.
Elizabeth I. Adamson, M.D. White Plains,
N.Y.
William H. Allee, M.D. Ridgefield,
Conn.
Thaddeus H. Ames, M.D. New York
City.
Mrs. George S. Amsden White Plains,
N.Y.
Mrs. Isadora Anschutz White Plains,
N.Y.
Grosvenor Atterbury New York City.
Pearce Bailey, M.D. New York
City.
Amos T. Baker, M.D. Bedford Hills,
N.Y.
Mrs. Amos T. Baker Bedford Hills,
N.Y.
Lewellys F. Barker, M.D. Baltimore,
Md.
Clifford W. Beers New York City.
Christopher C. Beling, M.D. Newark, N.J.
Harrison Betts, M.D. Yonkers,
N.Y.
Anna T. Bingham, M.D. New York