The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-19
.EARLHAM SENIORS
IN SAkUNTALA'
Beautiful Hindu Drama Will
Be Presented on Out
door Stage Tuesday.

Tomorrow evening fifty-two mem
bers of the Senior class of Earlham
college will appear on the Chase Out
Door stage and present the Hindu
classical drama, "Sakuntala,' in its
second performance in the United
States This afternoon full dress
rehearsal was held under the direction
of Professors f. p. Trueblood and
Cleveland X. Chase and Oran w. Han
kins, of Calcutta, India, the designers
of the costumes.
''Sakuntala," the class play, prom
Uses to be the most beautiful drama
ever presented in the city and will
rival any in costumes ever staged here.
MIR. Hawkins, who has been a mission
AIRY in India for several years has loan
ed Ithe class several gorgeous robes
and ornaments worn by the royalty
and priests of India, and these will
be used tomorrow evening. Besides
these he has designed a number of
costumes and prepared special dyes
to get the strange tints characteristic
of Indian costumes.
First on the Stage.
Because of the heavy rain last Sat
urday and the inability to stage the
Robin Hood" opera on the new stage,
the class play tomorrow evening will
be the first production to appear in
the ampitheater at the college. With
the new stage arrangement, the only
one of it's kind in the state, over two
thousand people can be seated In
case of rain, Tuesday. however, ar
rangements have been made to give it
in the college chapel.
When the play was translated for
the Smith college production in 1904
special music was written by the di-
rector of the music department at the
University of Wisconsin and this mu-
sic will be used by the class. Profess
sor Will Earhart and Miss Laura Gas
ton will direct it tomorrow.
The play, in point of interest, equals
any classical play of England and
Greece and the story briefly follows:
Dushyanta, the RaJah of India, while
on a royal hunt is lost in the forest
where he meets Sakuntala, the foster
daughter of the hermit Kanwa and af-
ter short courtship they are married.
While living among the Brahamans
with his new bride he is summoned to
his palace, but before leaving he gives
Sakuntala the ring which she is to
present at the palace when he sends
for her to celebrate their marriage
feast. AS he rushes away from Sakun-
tala, tn sage Durvasus pronounces a
curse upon Sakuntala and Dushyanta,
saying that the Rajah shall thenceforth
forget her. Later Sakuntala's attend
ants, Anasuya and Priyamvada, plead
with him and he modifies his curse so
that when the ring is presented. the
Rajah will recognize her.
Sakuntala and her attendants on
their way to the palace stop at the
J beach to battle. The Rajah's ring is
too large for her finger and she loses
it but does not discover her loss until
she reaches the palace and wishes to
present the ring of recognition. True
/ to Durvasuss curse Dushyanta does
not recognize her.
A fisherman has been arrested for
having a royal ring in his possession
and as he is arranged before the court
Dushyanta recognizes the ring, remem.
| bers Sakuntala his wife and immedi-
| ately sends after her.
While Dushyonta is pursuing the
enemies of the gods, he sees a boy
sitting in tree refusing to get down
at the entreaties of his nurses. Sud
denly Sarva banana jumps down but
drops his sacred amulet which has the
power of killing anyone picking it up
| who is not his father or mother. This
the Rajah hands to the nurses and
when he is not killed he is recognized
as the boys father. Then Sakuntala
enters. recognizes the Rajah as her
husband and the boy asks his mother
who is that man."