The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-02-03
OLIVER CROMWELL PRESENTED.


Stirring Scenes OF His Time Depicted.
Stirring scenes in seventeenth cen
fury England in the days Of Oliver
Cromwell were presented Wednesday
evening and last evening in Music Hal.
by a large company of young men and
women OF the city, under the auspices
Of the First English Lutheran church.
The auditorium up stairs and down
was comfortably filed and the appre-
citation Of the hearers was shown in
the liberal applause with which the
various scenes were received.
The allegoricaI professional with
which the entertainment opened was
a brilliant stage picture of Puritan
men in their quaint garb and peculiar
hats; modest puritan maidens in
gowns of black. with white necker
chiefs and dainty caps; gay and dash
ing cavaliers in their uniforms with
red crosses conspicuous: cavalier, girls
in gowns of white and red crosses; UNI
iyersity students in their gowns and
mortar-board caps; halberdiers in
their uniforms of green; Highlanders
in their. plaids and officers of the court
of Charles I. The costumes of many
eolors in the fine evo1utions of the
march and the singing of Praise We
the Father and Easter joys" by a
chorus of one hundred and twenty-five
voices combined to make the opening
spectacle a most impressive one. Be
tween the scenes Mrs. H. Z. Monroe,
of Washington, D. c., gave a fine illus
trated lecture, telling the story of the
struggle in England for religious liber-
lty and the supremacy of parliament.
Mrs. Monroe possesses a very pleasing
voice and held her audience from be-
ginning to end.
The entire evening was an able rep
Iresentation Of the religious side Of the
Puritan movement.
The most interesting scene of the
evening is the Parliament scene.
Charles |. of England was impersona-
ted BY Mr.. Axel vestling, who was
every inch the king, and much
stronger character than the man he
represented.
| Mr.. Carl Mears, as Oliver Cromwell,
was the embodiment of the stern, up.
fright eloquent Puritan, and was the
strenuous leader Of that most strenu-
| GUS time.
In this scene Mr.. William Peterson,
as young I5ightfoot. represented the
| prosecuted Dissenters, and Mr.. E. H.
Cameron, as Merchant, represented
the much wronged commercial class.
| The most brilliant scene of the even
i ing is that at the Lord Protectors
house. Cromwell has reigned ten
years in England and the committee
lfroin Parliament comes to offer him
the crown.
A ouartette consisting of Misses May
re. Bradley, Mildred T. Richards,
Messrs. Edward Hendee and E. E. Al
| len rendered a beautiful selection,
showing the quaint music Of the time.
| Miss Maud Beach was Lady Crom-
well.
In this Scene Cromwell rect we'd the
following ambassadors and their
| wives: French, Oscar Freeburg and
| Mrs. A. e. Bristol; Spanish, Oskar ia
Robson and Ruth Thrasher; Swedish,
AxeI yestiing and Elizabeth Patton,
Netherlands. Roger Selby and Anna
Peterson.
This scene closed with beautiful
tableaux. The entertainment closed
with a march of peace, in which all
carried hoops of flowers and crowned
King Jesus Lord of ALL Much credit
| is due Miss Cora Christofferson, who
very ably presided at the piano.