The first general rehearsal of the cast that will total 6,200 singers, actors and dancers participating in the Jewish pageant, “The Romance of a People,” will begin tonight at the Washington Irving High School, 16th Street and Irving Place, Manhattan, at 8 o’clock. Thousands of young men and women, coming from all parts of the city have volunteered their services for the production, the proceeds of which will go towards the relief of those German Jews desiring to go to Palestine.
Isaac Van Grove, director of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, who arrived in New York yesterday from Cincinnati where he was conducting a summer opera season, will go over the score of the pageant tonight and subdivide the dancing, singing and acting groups into about thirty divisions in order to facilitate rehearsals. He will have thirty assistants in charge of the various groups.
TO DESIGN STAGE
Peter Clark, noted stage engineer and designer and builder of many of the largest stages of the world, has contributed his services, and is now designing the massive stage that will be set up in the Polo Grounds. The set will be the largest ever constructed in this city and will embody the newest ideas in stage design. Mr. Clark who designed the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, is more recently known for his construction of the stages at Rockefeller Center.
Radio Station WHOM in Jersey City has arranged to broadcast daily reports of the details in connection with the progress of “The Romance of a People,” which will be presented at the Polo Grounds on September 14.
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