The Masque Revealed
MY LADY has recently been favoured with a series of programmes from SYA on the English Theatre-and if activity with the broom or egg-beater suffered as a result of this morning session, one can only say it was well worth it. The last of the series dealt with the Court Masque-that elegant frivolity so beloved of Elizabeth’s courtiers, Told chiefly from the lips of the stage-mana-ger-and is he not the housewife of the theatre menage?-it gave an excellent impression of the elaborate machinery these productions required, of the constant demand for "something new" in the way of spectacular effects, and of how, with the aid of Mr. Inigo Jones’s sets and a lot of ingenuity, this was achieved. From the other side of the footlights one caught a glimpse of the intoxicating effect of the music and dancing, set among fountains that really played and clouds that really floated, while the elaborate flattery of showers of blossoms and snowballs made of scented lambs’ wool descended on the heads of the courtly audiences. ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 9
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175The Masque Revealed New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 9
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