Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-06-22
JOAN OF ARC At HARVARD
Stadium In Cambridge This Evening.
Miss Maude Adams Heads the
Producing Company.
(Herald Specially

(Herald Specially
Boston, June 22-Crowds of visit
ors from New York and other cities
have arrived here to attend the grand
spectacular performance of Schiller's
Joan of Arc" at the Harvard Stadium
in Cambridge this evening. The per
Torrance, which will be on scale
of unprecedented magnitude and
promises to be the greatest and most
brilliant dramatic spectacle ever seen
in the United States, will be given
under the auspices of the German de,
partment of Harvard University, by a
special company headed by Miss
Maude Adams and under the artistic
management of Mr.. Charles Frohman
of New York.
Schiller's Joan of Arc the Eng
ish version of which will form the
basis of the spectacular dramatic pro-
duction, has been performed hundreds
of times in various theatres in Eu-
rope and, occasionally, in the United
States, but even the largest theatres
and companies were utterly made
quate for the representation of the
heroic scenes and action of the drama
as contemplated by the poet-author
Tonight, for the first time in his
tory, the dramatic figure of the in
spired Maid of Orleans will appear in
a setting of adequate proportions. The
enormous arena of the Stadium will
be the scene upon which several thou
sand men, carefully trained and drill
ed, will give realistic representa-
ton of the battle on the defile near
Orleans, in which the French were
led to victory over the English by
the inspired Joan of Arc 1t will be
a gorgeous spectacle, this battle, in
which several thousand men, among
them two hundred knights and spears
men in full armor, CARRIED, ACQUIRED,
armed and otherwise equipped hfstor-
ically true to the style and type of
the early part of the fifteenth cen
fury, will enact wonderfully realis-
tic battle scene, the like has never
been seen at any dramatic perform
ance in this country or in Europe.
Of course, Miss Maude Adams, the
Joan of Arc" of tonight's spectacular
performance, will be the principal |
character in the magnificent scenes
of the presentation Dressed in full
armor and mounted on snow-white
charger of Arab blood, she will gallop
into the fray, bearing the banner of
he Virgin, directing the French
glorious !
victory She will be Supported by a |
competent company of players and
about thirteen hundred supernumera-
RES.
An idea may be formed of the mag
nificence of the production from the
fact that the properties required in
elude eight hundred full suits of ar
NOR, trappings for two hundred
chargers, costumes, equipments and
arms of various kinds for thirteen
hundred men, in addition to the seen
cry and thousand and one accessories
necessary to make the presentation
as life-like and historically true as
lrt and the more lavish expenditure
If money can make it.
After many weeks of rehearsing in
New York the entire company, with
is trainload of scenery and proper
les arrived here yesterday and was
temporarily housed at the Colonial
Theatre, where the final rehearsals
IF the principal actors were held,
While the army of supernumeraries
vas taken to the Stadium for its final
'ehearsals of the intricate battle
scenes upon the actual scene of to-
lights spectacle. The large special
which will play special
arrangement of Beethoven's "Eroica"
at the performance tonight,
llso rehearsed at the Stadium yester
lay and tonight.
1t is said that Charles Frohman re-
yards the Harvard performance as
he most ambitious act of his long ca
'eer as a manager. 1t will certainly
re the high-water mark of the distin-
suished stage career of Miss Adams.
dr. Frohman was determined to
make this performance an artistic