HISTORICAL PAGEANT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 11

HISTORICAL PAGEANT.

4 A contributor, referring to groups 5 and 6 of the forthcoming Historical Pageant, says:—From Alfred the Great to Edward I. is a long step in English History, the Norman Conquest and the granting of Mngna Charter being the most 'notable events not shown in our Pageant. The fifth episode, is the presentation in A.t>., 1285, of the first Prince of Wales to the Welsh people in tljo person of the infant Edward, son of Edward 1., this being an act of diplomacy to give a peaeeful end to the incessant raids and fights on tho Welsh border. The actual ceremonial was reproduced at Carnarvon in 1911, for the investiture of tho eldest son of King George as Prince of Wales. True to promise the first Prince was born in Wales, and. unablo to speak English, thoucli he was equally too young to speak Welsh. • This episode should bo a. fine spectacle, as Mr. and Mrs. James Hislop havo organised a band of 70 performers, among wliom aro Mr. J. Windsor as Edward I. Miss E. M'Eldowney as Qneen Eleanor, a figure _ well knownto all boy lovers of romantic episodes in history, the Queen Mother Eleanor (Mrs. John Horlock), the Royal Nurso (Miss Hazel Gooder), tho Bishop of Waterford (Mr. J. Horlock), Lord Chancellor (Mr. Bromley), Welsh soldiers, ladies and children, monks, English' Court ladies and gentlemen swell tho group, which, of coutso, would'not bo without tho harpists in tho persons of Misses M'Ronald and Gold. This pacification of Wales by diplomacy is followed in tlio Pageant by_ a very dissimilar event in 'Scottish history. Tho next group representing Robert Bmca (Mr. T. Purdsy) after his victory over Edward It, at Bannockburn, a.p.. 1314. There will be seeh also notable characters such as Edward Bruce (Mr. W. E. Shaw), Sir James Douglas (Mr. X. Johnston), Randolph, Earl of Moray (Mr. C. S. Moore), Sir James Graham (Mr. M'Cau) and, of course-, a hundred pipers and a' that. The latter will doubtless bo seen to display tact in delaying their entry, in order not to drown the foregoing Welsh harps. ,»The pretty Chaucerian group which follows can similarly bide its tiroo to enter if it does not appreciate Scottish music.