El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-27

a MIDSUMMER nights dream In
~ fact was the presentation OF
scenes from "a Midsummer
Nights Dream" By the FL Faso School
for Girls Monday evening on the lawn
Of the school Ben Greet. a beef eating
Briton, has done most TO popuIarize
Snakspere without scenery outOfdOCrs-
mad he been in the audience at the
commencement Monday evening, his big
BFlIlsh heart would have been de-
ughted by the fairylike presentation
OF the scenes from Shakspere's comedy
OF q summer night A transformation
mad been made in the school grounds
as a setting for the play. Trees had
peeh planted In groves, green bOuGhs
had been grouped in front of the build
lnSs, row of fOOtlights at the edge
Of the terrace lighted the stage"
powerful spotlight poured a flood of
sOLJly tinted radiance over the scene
/ lnaU converted the prOsaic street and
lawn into a bower Of lights and shad-
oWs through which the little fairies
and the gracefully draped Grecian
maldens passed and repassed.
Behind a leafy screen, A r. Sievers
on the piano rendered appropriate in
clqentaI music, much of it from Men
delSSOhn's lovely music written for this
play Led by Iheseus, duke of Athens
ana Hlppolyta, queen of the Amazons
IN their regal robes, with their attend
ants and the characters OF the Shaks-
perlan comedy, the long procession of
girls in rose and azure, saffron and
white SIded onto the lawn, their
dresses and hair hung with flower gar
lands, their wells OF sOftest chiffon fly
ing behind them
Now the lights change to a mellow
white and the Athenian boys and girls
appear In their simple robes of old
Greece The dancers sway and glide
over the grass TO the sOftest of music
Wnlle the festival dancers" group
O. -ga| IN. Fr- r-a
The 'mechanicalS.'' Shakspere's droI
dull Wltted wOrllmen, meet in friend
ounces house to prepare for the play
WhIch they are to give before the duke
ms DIT OF comedy. Pink and white
FAIRIES, their silvery wings glistening
IN the light. skip and fit from bower
10 power carrying wild flowers to
into graceful tabIeaus as naturally as
they play at being fairies
Dro4lery and Enthusiastically charming
ldlry scenes alternate in the final
scenes OF the play when the "lamenta-
DIe Tragedy OF Pyramus and This5e is
presented by the mechanicals before the
wedding party Pyramus rants his
llnes as Bottom, the weaver, imagines
II should have been played. Flute for
gets TO affect the feminine voice as
the loved one in the play and calls to
heaven when she discovers that Pv-
Eamus is dead. Even the wall" Of
1890 N--t ---- FAE-s - present ana talks
as a well behaved stone wall should
talk The Greek festival dancer. give
a most beautiful sPries of tabIeaus and
graceful movements, and the play
closes with the fairies casting a spell
over all, including the audience. which
almost forgets to applaud the end of
the play, so strong is the SMELL of the
nghIs and shadows, the twinklfng
fairies and the dancing youths and
maidens of old Athens.
Preceding the presentation Of the
play by the classes of the School for
Girls James G. McNary, as president
Of the board Of directors a10ouDcaf
that the present buildings Of the school
mad been released for three years and I
tnat the work Of the school would be
extended and continued also that the
FACULTY would be the same next wear
as this. with the exception of Miss Re
becca Mack. who is leaving this nart
OF the country Mrs Frances s. We'll, I
OF AlllW aukee, WIS, viii take charge of
the business management of the school I
Tor the next year At the conclusion
OF the play Mr.. AcNary, for the faculty I