The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-14

the canvas and out OF view OF the specta-
tors, The effect is pleasing and startling
TO high degree it being q novelty in
street pageant displays,
FLOAT 2-nENRy VIII.
Wolsey-- o how wretchcd
Is that poor man who hangs on princes iavory:
There Is betwixt that smile we would aspire TO,
That sweet aspect OF princes and their ruin'
More pangs and fears than wars or women nave,
And when he falls he falls like Luclcr
Never to hope again.
q OCromwel Cromwell
Had served my God with half the zeal
| served my king he would not In mine old ago
Have left me naked TO mine enemies.
The disgrace OF Cardinal Wolsey and his
fall is pictured forth with lifc-likc fidelity.
King Henry has become weary OF his
Queen Catherine, and finding that his
cardinal is trilling with him determines TO
disgrace him and bring back Cranmor, who
will favor his divorce from Catherine and
his marriage with Lady Anno Boylcn. The
King irowns upon the cardinal, and the
mobiles smile and whisper, lie IL forced TO
render up the great seal and ordered into
confinement; his goods, lands, tencments
and chattcls are forfeited and he Is lett
without friend except Cromwell, his
servant. The representation is taken from
this picture, and the great cardinal is seen
| in disgrace before tho court OF the King,
who Is surrounded by his mobiles, includ-
inc the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the
Earl Of Surry and the lord chamberlain,
and nothing is left for Wolsey but to say:
Farewell
The hopes Of court my hopes In heaven do WELL
FLOAT 3-MAcprTH.
Flrst wltch-when shall We three meet again,
In thunder lightning or In mlnl
| Sccoad~Mitch-Whc the hurry burlyH donv,
| When the battles lost aud Won.
| Third Wilch-That will be ere the set OF sum-
| First witch--Whero's the placer
| second Mitch-Upon the heath.
Third witch-There 10 meet with Macbeth.
| fint Witch-l come, umymA KIM
All--Paddock ealls-Anon!-
Fair A. foul and foul II fair;
Hover through the fog and hlthy air.
In selecting q subject for display from
this tragedy the managers OF the Pageant
Procession settled upon one of weird and
startling interest. the cauldron scene or
the meeting between Macbeth and the
the witches In the cave. Shakespeare
created multitude OF supernatural beings,
while, stepping over the boundary OF or
binary human nature, fairies, spirits,
witches, and even in these creatures oi the
Imagination the sevcrcst consistency and
strictest yerismilitudc never for moment
abandoned him. They are always con-
slantcs sibi. We know that such beings
do not and cannot exist, but we irrcsistibly
feel. in reading the scenes in which they
appear, that II they did exist they could
not exist other than as he has painted
them, and the consequences TO the most
remote and trivial details flow from them
In manner that no analysis can gainsay.
The cave with crawling snakes il pre-
sented and the central figures are Macbeth
Hecato and the three witches moving
around cauldron. Macbeth has come e
hear more, or ~ lac says
"-I will to the weird sisters;
Morr shall they speak, ior morc am bent TO know
liy the worst means the N9isL tvI iniho own goo
Stept In 20 far that. should wade no more,
Returning wcrc as tedious ~ 90 o'cr.'
In response TO Macbeth's demand, there
appears the appari,ion OF an armed heat
rising from the flaming cauldroni then th
appariion Of bloody child, the appari
ton OF child crowned, with "A tree In hi
hand, eight kings appear In order an
Macbeth cries out
"Itorrlblc sighu Now 500 us ifnc.
| i'or the blood boltcrd Ianqu0 smiles on me
Aud points "a them Tor his What j. this soi'
This is the particular scene which ha
been caught by the artists aud translcrrc
10 the float in q graphic manner.
rLoAL 4-ornELLo.
RrahantioS'My daughter o, my daughicn
| Duke and scnniou-Dcadi
nuniantlo-Ay 30 me,
She Il ahns'd. stolen from me aud corrupted
Nv spells aud medicines bought of mounichhnks
| For nature ~ pfcp0sieOusly 20 err
Being not deficient. blind or lame OF sense,
FANS witchcmh could not"
/ Al Il.
of the Sphinx society would bo incon
pleic In its Shakcspercan illustrations ha'
II not contained the Ncnilian counc
chamber scene wherein Othcllo defend
himself from the charges of using witch
craft In order 10 win Dcsdemona, Brbar
,io's lovely daughter The duke an
senators, officers, Othello Brahantio an
Dcs,lomona appear as the prominent iig
urca. and the Moor addresses the duke II
his famous speech:
Most potent, grave and reverend slrnor,
Ny ycy noble aud approved good masters
That have ia'cn away this old mans daurhtc
II T. most trnc true. have married her
Tho ycry head aud front II my 0nCndisg
Hath this extent no more.
Upon Brabanlio's face you imagine yo
zee the expression Of disgust and scorn
his daughter decides to abandon h,
1 INtllfI n ilNNNff ullfl w WIN AiA' hNhif WI
escapes not with his prize before lac n
cciycs the Parihian shot
Brsbantlo-Look 10 her Moor. n thou hat eyes
sho has deceived her iaiher, aud may thee.
TLoAT b-EiSg LIAR.
Lear with Coniella dead In hii arms
- plague upon you. murderer, traitors. ALT
might rave saved her nov, she's guuo iofcyC
C0rlclla coficlla stay liiilc-liai
What Il I thou sayst Her voice was ever soii,
Gentle aud low, an excellent thing In woman
ikiilcd the slave that wv hanging thee
The selection Of a scene from "Lcar"-
tho death OF Cordclia--wns n happy on
Il being the climax of the great TRACED
which gave 80 wide scope 10 Shakespeare
genius. The story Of King Lear II dcopl
pathetic. The fond fathers crime -loyir
his daughters too well and bcsiowing upo
them such honoB and wealth ~ he la
10 give. and as reward securing loss
power and losing the respect and ycner
iion due him. lie " the sport OF low e
lows and Of the wind, and the very 81
menis beat down upon his dcicnselc
head. The white haired wandercr throug
the storms; his only companion the 70
with pathetic wit. With n mind d
throncd the good King sits NJ the feet
his own fool, receiving bits Of wisdom NJ
knowing Il not. An outcast and q bcggar
Il compelled 20 40 humble himself ~
bcsccch his own daughter for food az
resi and aDolOgiza 10 her for being aO o