The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-21
M.h'S CUMMIITEE TO
WORK FOR PAGEANT
Ladies' Having Decided Question OF
Location, Real Work OF Making
the Pageant Begins.
AT WORK ON TRANSPORTATION.
Colonel Warren p. Taylor WIN EN-
deavor to settle Problem Of Getting
Crowds Back and Forth to Rich
mond College Grounds.

mond College Grounds.
Concerning the Shakespeare pageant
the chairman OF the mems central com.
mittee made the following statement
yesterday:
The pageant Is now an assured fact
It may have seemed that there was
undue delay. but such delay as may
have occurred, was entaiied by the ne
cessity of carefully considering the
proper magnitude of the pageant
whether IL should be n great civic en-
terprise, or comparatively small anatr'
where IL should be held, and how TINS
funds required for its organization III
either event might be raised, THOSE
upon whom the fnai decision rested
could not afford to act hastily.
1.-THE mems central committee mas
been officially informed at last. oy
the chairman of the ladies' ex-
ecutive committee. that II has
been definitely decided by the ladies
to give the Shakespeare pagent at
Northampton. on the Richmond Co..
lege Grounds. upon a scale common
surate with existing facilities.
Ladies' Had Power to Choose.
THE mems central committee. which
committee was organized for the sole
purpose OF cooperating in an advisory
capacity with the actual directors OF
thea pa geant has all along declined
to take upon itself the responsibility
or making any decision in the matter
of the sites, but has freely advised tn )
actual directors as to existing faciii-
ties. leaving the final choice to the
ladies In charge. with all the facts be-
fore them The mems central com
) mittee has stood prepared to abide by
that choice. and 1t is no secret tha'
many of the individual members be-
lieye the final choice lie a wise one.
The whole matter came down to
choice between a large civic pageant
ut the fair grounds. for the organixa-
ton of which Ii was not thought suf-
ftctent time remained, even had the
large sum of money IL would have re-
duired been available, and compare :
lively small pageant at Richmond Col
-iex~-wAere many advantages for n
smaller enterprise already exist
1T ls not a question what might
have been done. or what should have
been done The fact now confronts
Richmond that an organization OF pun
lic-spirtted women, intends to give a
great pageant IN May, and everyone
should endeayor 10 assist IN making "
q success,
VIII Organise Facilities.
Efforts will be made by Colonei
Warren p. Taylor. chairman OF the
transportation committee, to organize
and augment the present transports
ton facilities In every way possible
Mr. w Frank Powers, and MI Lewis
", Pisrini will submit plans TO the
al o.
ments and grounds. respectively.
.Jnasmucn as II will be serious prob
aem to transport an in Richmond who
will probably attend the pageant. no
particular efforts will be made by Mr
Horace r. Smith. TO advertise the pa
7reant In other quarters. MI w. .
FORBES has already actively under
taken TO raise funds fer the pageant
and il In expected that those whom ne
approaches viii contribute 1ihsFalisr as
yhe ladies who are arranging the great
spectacle deserve the encouragement
and support of the Richmond men.
"Sow that the pageant is actually
sander WY. IL is well that the public
ehouid understand, once and Tor ai1'
sfhat the uageant is tire work, ana w
cue to the enterprise of the ladies who
are organizing II. and that the only
3purpose and function OF the men
central committee is to advise am
assist them. Credit for the conception
OF the pageant Is entirely due TO tne
ladies. To the public spirit of Mr.
7John Sfewart Bryan, rs due ms credit
for enlisting the interest of the men
rrhe generous and efficient way IN
which the Eve gentlemen who head the
x-tror,mitteesz have responded ana
have taken hold of their respective
work in assisting the ladies liz most
xomm@uds able and the mems centrai
rommtttee feels assured that the ser
aieas of Messrs. Forbes. Taylor. PiSEini'
Powers and smith viii prove most vsi-
uahie."
varsity of Indiana, who Ia the greatest
aesy,py authority on the construction of
rbe Eliza bethesn stage, ana who're stAE :
Jrr Of Eixabethean stage propertie%'
has sent a dra wing sketch OF the EiS-
nb.thean stage as he believed IL 10 DC.
~ Reypcl,Is offered his notes, and all
yos.Ib,e assistance. He gives the fuli-
rst oossfble assurances that II VIII pe
~ interest to scholars DR.. Reynotus
tae.s on this subject have never oeen
xisualixed. Miss Hatcher ana Dr. Hes
ncids were fellow students Al INC
vtrsity of Chicago.
Committee Meettngs.
Nas,tnxs for the committee Oh as
.,~nment of parts, will be held as foi-
lows; Tuesday afternoon at ! O'Clock
atrstford, at NJ Public schools. 81,
narthoiemew.s. 1880 a. NJ Fairs.
1l.3o. music committee. and at
o'clock. the committee on post CARDS
"Wednesday afternoon at o'clock Dolls
fairs.
The trunk containing sample cos
tunes from Van Horn Il Co. mas y.
rived. and they will be put on exn,
bition at the pageant ONCE
sixth Street.
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