The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-29

NNE of the most brilliant and at-
 tractive of the Shakespearean O tercentenary celebrations was staged last evening at Cable hall by the Birmingham center of the Drama league The day was filled with beaut- full entertainments for the lovers of Shakespeare, the afternoon being devot- ed to an elaborate Shakespearean page ant on the green at East park rendered by the pupils of the Birmingham High school,
 Clad in Elizabethean costumes, heralds announcing their approach, Elizabeth and her court in one procession, and witches, clowns, fairies, flowers and others talk ing rart in the plays, forming another procession, were led by the Boys Indus trial School band about the park in gala march, which was followed by the presentation in pantomime of many at- tractive Shakespeanean scenes. Dances on the English village green followed, and were beautifully staged about gaily deczed May pole.
 The tableaux presented last evening by a group of society maidens and men were especially attractive and well renedered, with most enjoyable musical pro- gramme of chorus from the Music Study and Treble Clef clubs, including Mrs F. G. Chandler, Mrs. Nora H. Toens feldt, Mrs. Arthur Barton, Miss Helen Janette, Mrs. Ernest Pomeroy, Mrs. Fletcher Quillian, Mrs E. T. Bruce, Mrs. M. Fies, Mrs. R. T. Williams, Mrs W. E. Allen, Mrs. Percy Gill and Miss Clara Hirst, with Mrs. William Gussen and Mrs. F. T. Rice as accompanists.
 . tofv, taIa Iafao.1 featuring "The Lovers of Shakespeare" were shown, accompanied by appropriate ShalSespeanean music and costumes.
 The following scenes and characters were seen in the exquisite pictures: i. Merchant of Venice"-casket scene. Portia, Miss Augusta Clark.
 Nerissa, Miss Helen Eubank.
 Bassanio, MT. Harold Duncan.
 2. "The Tanning of the Shrew"-the meeting.
 Katherine, Mrs. Margaret Gage
 Petrucio, MT. Ray Lange.
 8. "Othello.
 Desdemona, Miss Leona Plosser Othello, Mr. Craig.
 f Merry Wives of Windsor"
 Mistress Page, Miss Margurite Nabers Mistress Ford, Miss Anita Eustis. Falstaff. MT. John Griffin.
 5. Henry VIIT'-masque scene Anne Boleyn, Mrs. Will Hazard. Henry, MT. Ray Lange
 Music
 Shakespearean songs
 Chorus (a) How Sweet the Moon light" (CalcotD; Cb) Blow, Blow. Thou Wintry Wind" Arne-Shelley).
 Baritone, (a) ''Who Is Sylvia?" (Schu- bert); Cb) "Harl, Hark, the Lark" (Schubert)
 Chorus. Through the House Give Glin1mering Light CMrs. Beach). $. Romeo and Juliette," balcony scene. Juliette, Miss Elizabeth Wilkerson. Romeo, MT. Will Kennon.
 Song soprano, 70 Mistress Mine,' (Coleridge-Taylor).
 z. Hamlet gifts wax poor when lovers prove unkind''
 Ophelia, Miss Lucy Pinkard
 Hamlet, Mir Dallas Townsend. 8. As You Like It"-Meeting in the forest
 Rosalind, Miss Mary Park London Celia, Miss Helen Eubank. Orlando. MT. Dallas Townsend.
 Song. soprano. Under the Greenwood Tree" Carl Busch.
 9. Anthony and Cleopatra"
 Cleopatra, Miss Lydia Eustis.
 Anthony, Mr. A. E. Pennegar
 Attendants, Lily Porter and Dorothy West
 10. "A Midsummer Nights Dream"- Fairy scene.
 Titania, Miss Olivia O'Neal.
 Bottom, Mir. John Griffin.
 Fairies-Mary Alexander, Virginia Adams-Puck, Josephine Thompson. Chorus, "Over Hill, Over Dale" Mrs Beach.
 Curtain Pullers, Two Jesters, Engenia Johnston and Grace Thompson.