New Britain herald., 1916-10-06
Yale Pageant Magnificent = PZ0t With 8, GOO in CaSt Great Spectacle Will Be Presented in Bowl, Comment orating Coming to New Haven of Famous Uni
 versty Two Hu n1red Years Ago.

Haven, and includes a brief glimpse
 into the life of the Welsh ancestors
 of Elihu Yale, the original founder.
 The prelude, showing the mediaeval
 wedding procession of Margaret ap
 Ienkyn, the first of the Yale family,
 is followed by scenes of the founding
 of the Colony of New Haven with
 the purchase of the land by John ] Davenport and Theophilus Eaton from the Quinnipiac Indians; tho founding of the college by the pie
 turesque ceremony of the gifts of
 books by Congregational clergymen of the colony; the removal by force of the books and the college from Saybrook to New Haven, and the first commencement in New Haven. | Following an allegorical interlude. representing the coming of the arts 1 and sciences from the old world to the new college in America, come the stirring scenes at the time of the revolution, and those characteristic of the college in the early half of the | last century. Yale's influence in the | life of the nation stands out in such i episodes as the martyrdom of Nathan Hale and that of Theodore Winthrop, the first Union officer to fall In the l Civil war. These in turn are followed | by scenes of modern Yale ending with a drill by the Yale Battalion or Field Artillery organized last winter and in service as part of the Fed eralized militia during all of the past summer The allegorical finale of the Pageant shows Yale, after two hundred years of distinguished achievement, surrounded by the twenty colleges her sons have found oJ. nt,,ih f0 arts and sciences; and by eminent grad uates who have helped to shape the history of the nation-looking fear lessly to her future world service, while the whole multitude, both or audience and performers, join in singing the Yale psalm.
 Musical Setting.
 The dramatic action of the spec" tacle will be accompanied by the first public rendering of an original mus ical score by a chorus of 500 and an orchestra of 60 under the direction of David Stanley Smith, of the Yale School of Music. This has been con- posed in part by Professor Smith and by the following, who have co-oper- ated with him to make the music of the Pageant no less notable than the dramatic spectacle: Horatlo | Parker dean of the school of music; | Harry B. Jepson, 1893, William E. Haesche, 1897 Mus B., Seth D. B1ng- l ham, Jr, 1904, Walter R. Coles, l9Ob, all of the faculty of the school or l music, and Douglas s. Moore, l9l5.
 Refurnishing the Bowl.
 The vast arena of the Bowl, famed l for it's deeds of athletic prowess, has J ,ctn a great event.
 At four points on the outside or | the Bowl perpendicular stairways l have been erected which will be used | by groups of the performers in mak- i ing their entrances and exits. A large band and chorus-stand on the | east side by the flag pole Is in course 1 of construction, and will be buttressed l by five thousand additional seats for | the use of the various choral societies, | Above the band and chorus-stand, ] helping to form a part of the roof, | is an immense sounding board with 1 curved def1ectors at either end and | at the top, which will send a flood of | harmon down over the green of the l arena. The sounding-board Is an in 1 vention of Mr. Francis H, Markoe, | master of the Pageant and will be | tried out for the first time on the aft l ernoon of October 21. Just below | the music stand and over the tunnel 1 entrance has been built a small | prompters' box, not more than nine l feet square, which will be occupied | by Mr. Markoe on the festal day and | which will be the very nerve center | of the entire production. This box | will be equipped with a trunk-line |
 
 with a station at every portal of the | Bowl, and will also be supplied with | electric flashlight signals that MT. Markoe may keep in constant touch | with every group and movement l throughout the plays action
 The plan for distributing tickets to l the Pageant, agreed by by commit 1 tees representing the university and 1 city, follows: The principle of first come first served" will be strictly ob- served. The second advance sub | scrption for seats will close Septem- | Der 30 and as many thousand seats l were applied for before July 1, three | and a half months before the Pa l geant, when the first subscription was l closed, the desirability of early ap- | plication is apparent. The price for | each subscription seat has been | placed at two dollars. If any tick cts remain unsold when this subscrip- l tion closes on September 30, they wilf l be placed on open public sale. It is i intended to place no limit on the ] number of seats which may be sub- | scribed for on single application, | but the right is reserved to fix a limit | or to cut down return subscriptions | if it should be deemed necessary.
 Remittances may be made by check l or by postal express order, with the 1 usual fee of 15 cents added for return | postage and registration. Application | are to be made, and checks made |