The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-25
ELEANOR WILSON IN
WOODLAND MASQUE
Presidents Youngest Daughter
a. Wounded Bird in
"Sanctuary."
PERCY MACKAYE IN CAST
Miss Margaret Wilson Sings
Prelude Written by
Nine-year-old.
PERCY MACKAYE IN CAST

fOrest spranR up IN tine grand oali-
room Of the Hotel Astor last night and
on the Greensward Of a glade therein
was revealed Percy MacKaye's bird
masque. Sanctuary" with Miss Eleanor
Wilson. the President's youngest daughter,
playing the leading wcman's role. and
her sister. Miss Margaret Wilson. singing
the prelude.
Mrs. Wilson. who was to have been
a guest OF honor, was detained In WASH
ington because Of rearrangement OF
her social programme necessitated by
the Presidents recent Illness
The play was nroa.csi las; September
in q nook Of the Meriden Bird Clubs bird
sanctuary at Meridsn. n. II. Many MEM
bers OF the Cornish summer colony par
ticipated In IL and President and Mrs.
Wilson were among the spectators.
Miss Wilson spirit of birds.
Miss Eleanor Wilson appeared as Ornts,
the spirit Of all birds. through whose APP
peal q murderous plume hunter Is made
to realise that ne Is a man OF INFINITE
cruelty. to throw away his gun.
The other principals last night were
0SercNs, a faun. Joseph Lindon Smith /;
AipyN, a poet, Percy Mackaye: Shy, a
naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, founder
OF the Meriden Bird Sanctuary; Tdcitd.
| q dryad. Juliet Barrett Rub,ee. and Stark.
| the plume hunter. Charles Douville Co.
burn. Except for Mr.. Coburn, whose
| role was originally played by witter
Bynnsr, IL was the same cast as that or
the outdoor masQue In New Hampshire.
| The words Of the prelude. THE Hermit
| Thrush" which Miss Margaret Wilson
sang. were written by Arvia MacKayc.
who Is years old and Is daughter
Of Percy MacKaye.
The boxhold,rs were Miss Clara B
Spence, Mrs. James Speyer, Mr.. and
| Mrs II. Fairfield Osborn, Mrs Henry A.
Alexander. Mrs. Marion Won L. Phelps,
! Charles Stickney. Mrs. Charles u. Wood
| Charles T. Wills. Eugene Delano Mrs
H. W. Sibley. Miss Annie Burr Jennings
Mrs. John French. Mrs. Albert r. Ledoux
! Mrs. Edward =. Hardness. Mrs. Edward
A. wickes. Mrs. Philip Goodhart Mrs
Charles oppenheim. Mrs. James J. Hiy'
ginson. Mrs. Percy MacKaye, Isaac Selig
man, Mrs. Paul Morton. Mrs. Bradle,
Martin. Mrs. Hugh J. Chisolm. w. W
Carman and Mrs. Frederick Thompson.
sinss Of Little Girl.
A little girl wandered in the quiet OF
a bird sanctuary. Passing deeper into
the wood she thought dreamlly OF all the
wild birds and of the wrongs done then
by men and women. II was the thoughts
OF this little girl that Mss Margaret
Wilson sanE-rever!es out OF which grew
the masQue. But frst of all there was Q
prologue spoken by Mrs. Coburn
M.ss Eleanor Wilson as Ornis came or
the stage in a white robe with wing
like sleeves. just after shy, the nat
uralist. had suggested that II woul,
be possible for man to understand
the speech OF birds II IL were not FOL
stark. the plume hunter. A eunshot wal
- .l,,t. ,t,,sy :
tree. Orsis, being the bird spirit. wal
wounded by the shot. The lines spok Il
here by Miss Wilson described the feeling
of wounded bird.
Such a blind Philistine was Stark. tn
plume hunter, that he couldn't see Orni
when he came crashing through tn
th!cket with his gun and DOGS He passe
her by and seized the dead bird
shy, the naturalist, reDuked Stark
told him this place was sanctuary an
there could be no hunting. Pipe tina
to the frogs" retorted Stark, The hunt
was about to depart, curslng. but Tact
charmed him with a dance and lured hir
toward Ornis. about whom tie hunte
straightway cast net saying, This sh
bird shall be captured alive
With the help OF Mr.. Mackaye's poetr
Ornts told this rude hunter all that tn
birds are doing for man.
WELL the scales fell from staVk's eyei
IN the last moments OF the masque ne wa
ust az woodlandy as anybody, and Mis-
Wilson. dancing ahead OF the process.o
Of Mr.. MacKaye's forest creatures. lie
s hem all away to her woodland shrine.
A bird pantom me directed by FlorenC
: Fleming Soyes was also part OF II
u nasQue-many young women repfesen
ng birds among them Fola La Follet'
: and Elizabeth Eyre as robins Tom Harr
q was BGmbio Bee
Augustus Thomas nominated Mr. Ma
Kaye as National Commissioner OF n
Civic Drama" and smiling at Mi,
r Eleanor Wilson ne said The daug II,
!. OF the President Is acting in Sanc.uar
n with her fathers consent-at least | SUI
h pose she is-and therefore interes, on h
G part In the civic drama may be presul
n posed"
. Sanctuary" was given under the au
b pieces Of the American Game Protecti'
r and PropaRative Society, the America
\. Museum OF Satura, History, the Audub,
Society the 3. T. &. a. and other o
CARNATIONS. The lines from the masq,
quoted above are printed with the pc
| yniSaion Of the Century COmpany