The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-05-17

Just such pageant. The back cam
pus, with the red walls of the college
buildings contrasting not unpleasantly
with the varied greens of the trees
and shrubbery can be translated, with
but a little help from the powerful
fairy imagination, or even from her
satellite Fancy, into the fields before
the proud pill Of Kenilworth. that
ancient heap so crowded full OF ro-
nance and real history
To this field. then, the royal prog
ress OF the queen was bent.
Months Of careful planning, weeks
OF patient and painstaking drill. hours
OF labor--the combined result Of
these. shown In short five hours,
was spectacle which entranced the
thousands present and upheld the
reputation Of Winthrop-a good COL
lege In a good town.
The whole was staged and present
ed under the direction Of Miss Sara A.
Spencer of the Winthrop department
or expression. Misses Mary Chan
ming Coleman and Mary Patten acted
as assistant directors. Miss Nancy G.
Campbell, head Of the college depart
ment Of music, was in charge of that
most important department. Miss
Campbell herself arranged the me-
dieval airs performed for the orches-
ira.
Misses Maude NJ. Isles and Miss
Christine South were In charge Of the
host OF minor details which went to
make the pageant marvel of display
and verisimilitude.
To the untiring work of the stu
dents--the entire corps took parts
due the remainder Of the credit They
performed their parts like veterans,
and yet with evidence Of a keen en-
toyment Of 1t all.
The days display was divided into
two parts; the afternoon performances
represented the arrival Of Queen
Elizabeth and her welcome to Kenil-
worth; the evening was devoted to a
representation OF the revels which
marked the entertainment of the
queen.
This afternoons display was opened
with an invocation to the Spirit OF
the Past. This was pronounced by O
herald. attired In the medieval
tabard of the King at arms Then the
audience gathered In an impromptu
amphitheatre on the back campus of
winthrop felt the years gliding back
until the reign OF Good Queen Bess
was disclosed before their very eyes.
The multifarious population of Kenil-
worth castle and It's estates-yeomen,
guards. villagers. knights. ladies, jest
ers, dancers and masquers-assem-
bled on the green. Then Lord Leices-
ter and his brilliant train. a riot OF
color and glowing silks and velvets,
rode out TO meet the queen and escort
her in. Around the amphitheatre the
procession swept. stopping before the
rustic throne where the virgin queen
assumed her state.
Then ensued u programme of sports
the Moric dance. shepherds, Hey!"
THE Masque Of the Races" q spec
tacle modelled on the Elizabethan
masquers: the dance OF the Spirits OF
Woodland and Wave; the ancient
dance. "Sellingers Round" by the
children of Warwick (the model
school pupils); the performing bears;
the sailors In their hornpipe! and the
dance OF the shepherds and shepherd
esses.
The crowning feature was the
elaborate pantomime. "Chdrella,"
which presented the old childhood's
classic with all the glamor that first
attached to 1t when told to eager little
pitchers at bedtime. The Prince. Gin
derella. the pumpkin-coach and the
other delights of the glass slipper tale
We're prominent In this beautiful little
play.
With the afternoons sports at all
end the queen and her suite made an
other grand promenade around the
arena and then departed in the full
glow and glory of the admiring
throng's: We'll done"
The nights events took up the
thread OF narrative. beginning with
the entrance into the theatre OF the
queen and her suite. The royal party
took seats on a dais beside the stage
In the improvised open air playhouse;
the chorous sang a welcome ode to
her and the Earl Of Leicester's play
ers began the presentation OF "Sher-