SHAKESPEARE'S FESTIVAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2756, 27 April 1916, Page 3

SHAKESPEARE'S FESTIVAL

-—*-— , . Tlie Shakespearean Costume Festival, which is to bu held ill the Town Hall on May 3, i, and 5,. in commemoration of Shakespeare's terceiicellarv, promises to be ft most brilliant 'success. The prcgramiuo will.consist of carefully, chosen scenes and sketches from tho poet's most notable plays, and in addition to these there will bo a, grand - pageantry of Shakespearean heroines and then- attendants. This, item will be a. most gorgeDus und spectacular one, thero being soino Bo> women and children' tat. ing part. The, pageant has been arranged by Mrs. J. A. ilannah, who has also designed tho dresses. The scenes on tho programme are.:—"Trial" sceue from llie Jtevchaut of Venice," Air. J. Cul- ?, cll (Shyloek); Miss Ethel ' Chur- ?,,,!■ ( lol ' tia ); "Kitchen Sceno" .from ■ Ihe Twelfth Night," Air. Norman Aitken (Sir Toby), Mr. W. W. Crawford [bn-^s Andrew), Mr. Laslctt Extoii < c ?'«>),• .Mr. Phipps W.illiams (Malvolio), Miss Mario Fix (Maria); scone Vr o . m ' J-he Midsummer Night's Dream," Miss Betty Purdoiu (Oberon), Miss Vera Peg? (Titania), Little Hazel Hardwicke (Puck). The following dialogues' .will bo included in the programme :-Church Scene from Much-Ailo M.bout Nothing, - * Miss Har-a."ise-Maltljy (Beatrice) and Mr. How-, eil (Benedick); scene from "The Taitimg of th fi Shrew," Miss M. Butler ' Ivatharina) and' Mr. Byron Brown (Petruchio); scene from "Hamlet," Miss Janie Petrie (Ophelia), Mr., J. M. Clark (Hamlet). The following • will contriZi items:—Mrs. Phil. Naur™'" Catherine's s P«o1i" from "Henry . VIIJ ; Miss Pauline Brown, "Miranda," from "Tho Tempest"; Mia-Zita Chapman. prince Arthur," from "King Join/; Mr. Sidney Tingey, "Brutus," froui "Julius Caesar." " Air. Robert Parker is aiTanging for a full orchestra to play Shakespearean ' rausio. • ■ . j The box plan opens at the Bristol on ■L'Tiday morning. '