New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-09

Details Of Her Play Planned For
Harvard Stadium.
AN AMAZING. BATTLE SCENE.

With Lead Soldiers and Model Of the
Stadium Actress Works Out Evolu-
tions Of the conflict-Th Hun.
dred Persons to Participate.
Ten thousand persons are expected
to witness Maude Adams first appear
ance as Joan Of Arc in the Harvard
stadium at Cambridge, Mass, on the
evening Of June o. The .'bowl'' of
the stadium will be used for seating
purposes, and all that portion of the.
field and large section of the grid
iron that face the bowl will be used
for the stage The actors will tread
upon turf. A special scenic setting
adaptable to the stadium is being
built. In the matter OF costumes. of
which there are more than 1880, Miss
Adams has the cooperation OF John
Alexander, the artist.
One thousand supernumeranes will
be employed by Miss Adams These
will be in charge of fifty super cap
tains, and to dress them there will be
small host Of armorers, costume
masters, wardrobe masters, etc. Every
essential down to a pin necessary for
the costumfng of this horde will be
transplanted to the stadium. In addi-
ton Miss Adams master electrician
will install complete electrical plant
in the stadium sufficient to furnish ev-
cry requisite of lighting known to the
modern theater, only on a scale vastly
larger than any hitherto contemplated
in America.
The qualities of simplicity and gran
deur that mark the Passion play at
Oberammergau will also characterize
the performance of "Joan Of Arc by
Miss Adams and her company. An
English version Of Schiller's Jung
frau Won Orleans will be used The
incidental music will be taken in most
part from Beethovens "Eroica" SYM
phony.
To marshal the, large force Of auxil-
iaries and to direct the performance
ayers and chief manager, and over alt
these a stage director. The auxiliaries
have been separated in groups suffi-
GENTLY small for individual coaching
and drilling, yet large enough to en-
phasize their relation to the whole.
The actors will get their entrance cues
by means of signals on varicolored in
candescent lamps, and the movements
Of the mass Of supernumeraries will
be governed in the same way.
Every afternoon in the library of her
New York house; Miss sMaude Adams
resolves herself into a board Of STRAIT
egg, and with model Of the Harvard
stadium before her she devotes hours
to planning the battle scene in "Joan
Of Arc" as she will produce the play:
on June %. She was busy there the
other day with companies and battal-
ions Of lead soldiers, cavalry and in
fantry, moving them about, arranging
various and intricate evolutions that
will be followed exactly in the per-
Torrance. Both the model and the
soldiers were made exactly to scale,
and the practiced eyes Of General"
Adams are able to see just how it
will appear when the Harvard stadi.
UNI, scene Of great football battles that
are very real, is turned into a mock
theater Of war as in the days Of Joan
of Arc.
After Miss Adams closes her season
at the Empire theater in New York she
will 60 to Boston with her entire
forces-company, stage managers and
supernumeraries- actual rehearsals
on the grassy stage Of the stadium
Thirteen hundred persons will partici-
pate. Three complete rehearsals de-
voted to actual tactical cavalry ma
neuvers will be held under the direc-
ton of Captain Shelburne Of Battery
A, Massachusetts, volunteer militia,
composed Of Harvard graduates, who
have volunteered for the performance.
The elaborate nature Of the produc-
ton is shown by the fact that the bat
tie scene alone will last nearly half an
hour. To give complete verisimilitude
Its martial tableaux will be copied
from paintings by Boutet de Monvel.
The scene at the climax will be based
on Meissonier's canvas "1SO7," but
with Joan instead of Napoleon mount
ed upon a white horse amid charging
cavalry. The brow Of the hill will be
on the spectators left, and Miss Adj
ans as Joan will overlook the conflict
ing armies on the plain below.
For the perfection of this highly
elaborate scene model of the stadi-
um's stage with it's complete settings
has been made by John w. Alexander.
The single performance of ''Joan Of
Arc will be given for the benefit Of
the Germanic museum and under the
auspices of the German department of
the university. The use of the stadi-
UNI was granted some months ago to
Miss Adams by the president and fell
lows of Harvard college.
To Wed Above the Clouds
Charles J. Glidden, owner of the bal