Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-14
SHAKESPEARE PAGEANT
PLANS GOING FORWARD
Hold Meeting on Thursday to Per.
feet Organization OF Those
Interested.
MANY WOMEN WILL TAKE PART
Tentative Committees Already Out
lining Work-Costumcs to BE
Used, II Is Expected, Will BE
True to Period Represented.

Plans for the Shakespeare pageant.
TO be held on the Richmond College
campus early In May. are under way.
and "a meeting Of those Interested will
be held in the Chamber Of Commerce
Thursday afternoon at o'clock for tho
purpose of appointing committees and
emectiug organization. John Stewart
Bryan has been selected as chairman
OF the meeting.
Among those who have consented TO
serve on the committees and who have
accepted invitations To talk on Thurs
day are the following: Bishop Dennis
j. O'Cunu"ll, Colonel Thomas g. Me
Adams. William -. Duke. Rev. w H.
: Bowie. - -; Rev. T.. y calisch ph
! D.: President +. w Buatwri.ht of
Richmond College; Dr J. G. Mctca!r
| Kew H. ID. 9. Maclnchlau. - b. and
! pr. George l.. Thomas. The committee
appointed by the president VIII r
! Reed. Of the Chamber Of Commerce 10
cooperate with the pageant commit
tee is as follows: John Stewart BRYAN
Henry liutzicr and u. T.. Valentine
MANY WOMEN ACCEPT
/ INVITATIONS FOR rtGEA MI
! The women who h"v accepted iuvi-
, tations are Mrs ctway T. Warwick
/ Mrs. w. y '-rcnshaw. Mrs Norman Y
F, randolph. Dean AlarI Keller, Of West
hampton College: Mrs Horace Wei
iord Jones, Mrs Thomas {. Gordon. DR..
/ -. L. Hatcher and Mrs. H. :. Binswan-
/ ger Others are 10 he added
/ The organizations aud s.hools which
nave accepted Invitations to partici-
! pate IN the pageant are the following.
iiichmond College. Wcsthampton Col.
. ltSe, the Chamber Of Commerce. Young
Mems Christian Associations Young
! Womens Christian Associations. Me
chanics Institute, Richmond Art club.
the College club. Randolph Macon
Alumnae Association. Richmond r,n.
/ teilenic. Council OF Jewish Women
Collegiate School for Girls. Wo,onn,s
! College, Richmond: Miss MorrIse..
: Schooi. Richmond Academy and the Ho-
/ iary Club.
y tentative committee is already a.,
/ work outlining I'll. work OF designing
! from old prints patterns OF tho cos
| Tunes TO be worn. for the executive
| committee hopes To- have one of tho
| few pngcants in tho United States this
year III which tn" dresses worn will
! De tru" 10 tn" period. Skilled design
/ erS are at work, and It copy of the
oress worn hy Queen Elizabeth on
STATE occasions is almost Completed
| C'ncr committees are working ON tho
! 10.
canoes. music and planning 10 mold SOM.
! OF the sports that prevailed d,rin., ,b.
reign q: Queen Bes.
WOMEN WILL. MEET
On TUESDAY AE"TERNuo<
Although the final selections OF Tho
I committees will not be made untl az.
/ ter the meeting in III. Chamber or
commerce on Thursday, yet many are
hard at work now Among thes. arc
j Ipy-.,f
Westhampton College: Lny Tr.yc,
! Woman's College: Miss Edith NJ I.;
son. Miss Mary T. Robinson. Mrs y
r. Ionpkins, Mrs. Il. A. Canthornr.
} Mrs. j. Nilsson Hodges, Mrs Il. -.
lanes Mrs Thomas g. Gordon. Mis-.
u. y. Brock, Mrs. Arthur Scrivcnor.
Mrs. Pelham Blackboard NJ. ,..o-r.
I'ryan. Mrs. G. Il: Doyle, Mrs l.. Il.
bashi"il, Mrs, y. V. Handolph. Mrs W.
! Oppenhimcr. Mrs. William Duke.
Mrs. Frank w. Duke. Hrs T. u.
! tlcqucmbourg. Mrs Henry Baskerville.
! Mrs Egbert Leigh. Mrs. re,ncis scott,
Mrs William y. Reed, Mrs j. : Dav-
! export, Mrs. George :. Thomas. Mrs
Charles w. Scidcn. Mrs John A. Bar
keT, Miss katherine fIawcs. Miss r.
l.. Van Wort Mrs. T.. c. Laird, Mrs. L.
Taylor Ellyson. Mrs. George W Nc
daniel. Mrs. j. NJ Rosenbaum
There will be "a meeting OF the
women serving on the tentative COM
mittecs on Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock in the bureau Of vocations for
women.
Harold T.. Calisch, architect: Miss
tdith NJ. Icason, artist: President r.
w Boatwrght, Dean Keller, Professor
Locke and DIR. Hatcher spent the great.
er part of yesterday on Richmond Col
!rgc campus selecting the proposed
sites for the proposed palaces, ihcaters
ara other structures OF England that
VIII bc used for 4 background for the
pageant AS the buildings at the col
leGe are designed in the Tudor form
of architecture. accuracy as 70 detail
will be maintained in representing tho
period or the life Of Queen Elizabeth
ENGLIStINOMEN TO PLAN
ALI. SCENIC EFFECTS
II was agreed upon yesterday that
tho pageant will start from Wcsthamp-
ton. and will wind its way down tho
pathway, over the bridge. into the
Richmond College grounds, and then
tlnd its way along the curve of the
lake and end III front Of the stadium.
where the tournaments before the court
will greet the eyes of the queen and
her royal followers. The famous visit
of Queen Elizabeth TO the Earl or
Leicester, at Kcnilworth, in 1855. will
be made the basis Of one Of the most
interesting Spectacles at the pageant.