The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-12
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Perhaps never before has there
been assembled in Pensacola such an
audience of cultivated, interested wo-
men as were brought together yester-
day afternoon at the San Carlos ho-
tel, when the Shakespeare club gave
the first of the tercentenary enter
tainments with which it win celebrate
the three hundredth anniversary of
Shakespeare's birth.
The concert given by the club to
the women of Pensacola, including as
special guests the members of the
federated clubs, was beautifully bal
anced both in its musical and dra-
matte parts, and was not only credit
to the Shakespeare club, which had
sponsored it, but to the city of PEN
sacola.
Receiving were Mrs. Morris Bear,
president of the Shakespeare club;
Mrs. e. e. Saunders, Mrs. Frank D.
Tracy, president of the Browning
club; Mrs. j. E. Taylor, Mrs. Fred
Roege, Mrs. Terrell Covington, Mrs.
Francis Wilson, Miss Hilma Green,
Mrs. John Pace, assisted by Mrs.
Frank L. Mayes of The Cations;
Mrs. Wilmer Hayward, representing
the Browning club, and Mrs. Mallory
Kennedy, The Nomads.
Misses Robbie Hyer, Marion Laney.
Pearl Sheppard and Ellen Adair Rob
erts served, Mrs. Francis Wilson and
Mrs. Frank L. Mayes presiding at one
punch bowl, and at the other Mrs.
Frank D. Tracy and Mrs. Wilmer
Hayward.
The guests were met in the corri-
dor downstairs by Mrs. ]. E. Taylor,
Mrs. Fred Roege and Mrs. Terrell
Covington, who had charge of the
beautifully engraved programs.
1t would not be possible to praise
too highly the arrangement and exc
cution of the different numbers given,
the program opening with an over
ture by the San Carlos orchestra,
from Gas You Like It." by Tobani,
the other number given by the or
chestra being "The Merry Wives of
Windsor" by Nicolai. The orchestra
is composed of Mrs. Sara Prick Wei
mer, pianist and director; Miss Lii
Ian Jacoby, first violinist; Miss Edith
Tucker, fiutist and vocalist, and was
assisted by Miss Cora Mallory, Miss
Lilly Mae Gibson and Miss Agnes
Wolfe. Not outside of the great cities
of the country is such music often
heard as that which was given yes
terday afternoon, and the audience
showed its appreciation not only in
the enthusiastic applause, but in the
perfect quiet which prevailed. The
hundreds of women who had met to
enjoy the program expressed much
appreciation for the fact that during
the concert the doors leading to the
corridors were kept closed, helping
to maintain the quiet so necessary to
the perfect enjoyment Of any pro-
gram.
Those who had met Mrs. Arthur
Eli Booth, and had heard her on other
occasions when she has appeared in
public since coming to the city as
the guest of Mrs. E. E. Saunders,
were prepared for a rare artistic
treat, but hardly expected such an
!! Interpretation Of the two great scenes
from Hamlet" and Macbeth" as
Mrs. Booth gave. In the scene from
Hamlet" her representation Of the
various characters were wonderful in
transitions of voice and expression
from one role to the other, and in
Hamlet" she was superb. But it il
the sleep walking scene from ''Mac-
beth" that Mrs. Booth excelled. Hel
wonderful voice modulations, her emo
tional control, her facial expression
and her marvellous artistic and por,
trayal of the role of the guilty Lady
Macbeth, proved her possessed Of
wonderful gifts highly cultivated.
Mrs. Booth is a graduate of the
Emerson College of Oratory of Bos
ton, Mass, and has done platform
werk in New England, with dramati,
readings from Dickens, Tennyson
Kipling and Riley, in addition to hel
interpretations of Shakespeare
roles.
The chorus was composed of Mrs