Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-01
A SHAKESPEARE SHOW"
How London Has Been Amusing Herself fol
Charity's Sake-A Novel Affair.

How London Has Been Amusing Herself for
Charity's Sake-A Novel Affair.
London has been having "Shaks-
peare show" at Royal Albert hall for
the benefit of a charity, of which The
Daily NeeOS says: The sight was pretty
and animated. The comely band of
young ladies who had volunteered for
the duties of ''show-book sellers" were
every where going about in their
quaint puritanical muslin caps, laced
stomachers, and stODe-colored dresses,
with ''rolls" upon the shoulders, after
the fashion of the serving maids of
Elizabethan, or, rather, JacObean days
in "Yorick's Love-" who furnished,
we believe, the model for the occasion.
Mingling with these were consider
able number of the stall-keepers in
costume, who having completed their
preparations by a long morning S work
were at liberty to promenade and chat
with friends in the "casket" or space
around the stalls, the splendid heraldic
costumes of the scene from king
John" mingling with occasional
glimpses of POrtia and Nerissa in their
grave forensic robes, or an AutOlycus
with his quaint-carved repository of
uncOnsidered tritles, or Cardinal
Pandulph in the stalwart person of
Capt. Davis, who wore scarlet cape
and robes with a very effective air of
ecclesiastical decorum.
Many stanch friends had notified in
tention of being present, among them
being the duchess of Argyll, the earl
and countess of Dudley, the earl and
countess of KintOre, the Countess Spen-
GER, Sir Algernon and Lady Borth-
wick, Lady Freake, Lady Willoughby,
Lady Lopes, Lady Poltimore, the
countess of Kildare, Lady Brassey,
Lady Gust, the Baroness Solvyns, Lady
Campbell, Lady Wolff, Adelaide Lady
Kingsale, Lady St. George, and Lady
Lamington. The ceremony of open
ing the show, however, could hardly
be called imposing; though it was
heralded by a flourish of trumpets
and the formal marshaling of hal
berders, or Elizabethan guards, whose
function it was to keep guard
around the intermediate space
Its official feature consisted main.
ly of the reading of letter from
Col. Knollys, expressing the regret OF
the prince and princess of Wales a.
their unavoidable absence. This duty
which was performed by Lord Cado
gan, standing on the platform under
the great organ, was followed by {
brief address, referring feelingly to the
circumstance that the princess of Wales
laid the foundation stone OF the new
hospital, which was opened by the late
duke of Albany. Nothing now remain
ed but to organize an informal sort o
march round, under the escort of th'
halberders in their beefeater-like cos
tunes, momentary halt at each stal
being the signal for the falling back o
the curtains, revealing the tablea,
vivant which had been carefully pre-
pared in each under the eye of artistic
advisers. 1t seemed rather hard upOl
the numerous ladies and gentlemel
who had gone to so much trouble tina
more time could not be afforded TO
the contemplation of these successiv
pictures. AS the classically architect
ural structure in which the variOu
stalls formed commodious inches wa
in the shape of an oblOng square, it wi
be understood at once that more tina
one-half of the tableauX were invisibl