THE PAGEANT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 774, 24 March 1910, Page 7

THE PAGEANT.

[/- .A: CAPTAIN' COOK SCENE. ' BjTelOßranh-Preas Aesoclatlon-Oopyrlchi' • London, March 22. ■ The Lambeth Borough has undertaken to provide a'-scene at the "Pageant of Empire,"'depicting Captain Cook's departure for Australia. Four hundred ; actors ; will take part in the scene. ' , '■•.- .. ..'-. . . .

DEEDS OF FAMOUS REGIMENTS.

The Army Pageant will be held at Fulham Palace, London, from. June 20 to-July 2. It is' considered that the King's assent to. the use of the regular troops will givo the final touch necessary to tho complete, spectacular patriotic success of this great charitable enterprise. , . ' ■ Major Tudor. Craig, ■ .the ' honorary secretary■ of, the pageant, says: "His, Majesty's consent will give great pleasure to the regiments, and will enable us to proceed at once with the second part of the pageant—'Stories of tho Regiments ia Famous Fights. , Spectators, will now see the most glorious deeds in our military history faithfully reproduced , by the regimonts < whioh actually, took part in them. '. [ ■ "Corunna is certain to be one of these spectacles. You will see the retreat, the battle, and the death of Moore. Stewart will press into the throng of the advancing enemy with 'the cry 'Voung Stewart- never yet retreated I' and die gloriously. The Welsh Fusiliers will'again lock the gates with the koys, which they still keep as a souvenir of that gallant deed. - "Barossa must he shown'. The Irish Fusiliers are clamouring for tho right to show how they captured. the first eagle taken from the French in the Peninsular War. - , "The storming of Badajos will provide us with a great night scene. In the Waterloo scene-we hope to show tho charge of the Greys, with the Gordons hanging to their stirrups."