The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-14
SHAK.ESPEAR|AN
TERCENTENN|AL
|NUN|TED STATES
Honolulu 70 Take Partln Honor
ing Bard Of Avon's Memory
With Many Other Cities
Iy FANNIE HEAsL1p LEA.


With the big guns of Europe smash,
ing half world to pieces over night,
It might very well have happened that
tue terrentennial Of Shak espearel
death should pass unnotieed--if not mn
honorcd-or Least uhRng.r
lh.'e hundred years ago, April %,
1916, william shakespeare died ut
Stafford On-Avon, the place of his
birth-hut what is that to Tommy At.
kims in the trenches at Ypres-or Lii
cette dressing an awful wound some.
wh,re in France?
, ing AID is busy making history. The
caIinoh deafens her ears. She cannot
shake the blood from her eyes long
enough to stop ana watch slim Rosa.
ing scorn OF Behedicts. so Il happens.
the widest celebration the most en-.
thusiastic cOfnmemOriit on of the
Shakespearean tercentenniaI falls to
America. #sH
Including the minor instances, IL has
been recently estimated, that fully az.
ty American cities will, mis- spring,
loId organized Shakespeare memorial !
festivals. H
New York Leading
New York, of course, leads in these
preparations. Over n quarter of mil
lion dollars will be spent in New York
upon the production Of a masque, writ
ten by Percy Mackaye, which demands
the erection Of an EliZabethan stage
~ the open, anu stadium large
enough to seat $4,000 persons. Joseph
Urban, the Austrian artist, Is building
| and painting in his Boston studio, the
elaborate stage settings required for
this masque. He is assisted by Robert
Edmund Jones, known TO New York
/ tbeater goers. chiefly for his extraor-
.dinar y successful work in connection
with Anat0le frances "Man Who
Married n Dumb Wife" ttt3.8
IN an interview lately given to
New York paper, Percy Maekaye says:
nv approach to Shakespeare in this
masque Is not to Shakespeare as an
lElizabethan; nor even as an English.
man, but TO Shakespeare as a great
world figure, great world power; the
mnster artist of his art, and the master
r"oet of the ages; the one great figure,
which today all the wrangling forces
Night focus upon ~. E
An organization bearing the name Of
the "Shakespefian Celebration, has
been Incorporated 20 handle the details
of this enormous festival and active In
the org8 nization are such prominent
New Workers as Mayor Mitchell, Angus
tns Thomas, Daniel Frohman, David
Belaseo, Mrs Gertrude Atherton, Mrs.
InaZ Austin. +. II. Sothern, Mrs. VIII
| an Aston Chandler and Minnie Mad
den Fiske..e - o.. gH". =. " $3.50
In st. Louis, Forest Park has been
turned over to the Festival Pageant
Association for an outdoor performances
bv Margaret Anglin Of "As You Like
IT," with FIVE hundred local supers.
Boston win present an elaborate fes.
tlval of its own, in which groups Of
EPayers will travel about from part TO
cat Of the city enacting various scenes
from Shakespeare plays, much as did
wandering players in Shakespeare's
Chic ago's Big Pageant \ -%.s
A Fill more elaborate celebration
viii be held in Lincoln Park, Chicago,
where under the auspices Of the Chica-
go DRAMATIC League and with fifteen
hIAdred children from the public
schools as the performers, a pageant
wiz t"snspire composed of characters
from all of Shakespeare work--kinas
and clowns, shepherds and counters,
great ladies' and little maids.
| Will Shakespeare might well turn
over in his grave this spring, open his
u eyes, ,drOwsy with three Centuries az
SSeeP "tior in that sleep of death, what
dreams may come .'ttSs
Honolulu . Share .r &
l. ,mSof which is far cry from Ho.
nOlulu. -, 1890
Now Honolulu Is to have its own com.
Incorporation of the great tereentennial
during FaGter Week, the Footlights
, Club viii present under the able diree.
ton OF Mr.. Will Levers. 1.-THE Tanning
Of the Sbrew,'' using David Garriek =
weston, arranged originally by Gar
rick for his own use. ~ =,
n this production Mr.. Levers has
written and introduced several charm.
ing interludes, and the music and
stage settings are to be notably per-
tect Ia details Many Of the costumes
will be brought from the Coast for the
occpsiOn. ~ lta n
. 1tls not every day that Shakespeare
Is played here, and the fact OF the ter,
; 20 ntehhial, celebration, embracing as IL
does, the whole Of the States in its sig.
tcchhcr and Importance. should make
ilh1lG petfor1malnce one OF considerable
! The Foqtliekts Clpb. il it, e-ceed.
ing'Y worth while endeayor to add Ho-
lu4ltln Z name to the list OF American
! cites COMMUNICATIVE In this nation,
! WA movement, the death az the Rard
OF Avon, should have the hearty sup
. "A A.. Of every man, woman and child
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