Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

at 4 o'clock in Houston Hall. The final
lecture, Wednesday. April 10, will be by
Josiah II. Penniman, vice provost of the
University of Pennsylvania, on shakes
peare and the Bible
Under the head Of university activities
come the very interesting performances
of The Comedy of Errors" by the Phil
omathean Society. For their Elizabethan
production this year they have admitted
to the cast women students and men OF
acting ability outside the society. But the
greatest interest attaching to the event
comes from the building in the Botanical
Gardens of n reproduction of the famous
old Globe Theatre. The - ,atre Is to have
n seating capacity Of about 1000 and will
be naugurated on May 8. The perform
ances are to be given daily for week.
Clubs and 5ocieties-AmonE the an
nouncements made by the societies and
clubs of this city, the Plays and Players
promise scenes from seven of Shakes
peare's plays on May %. This performance
will be given in the Globe Theatre at the
University of Pennsylvania and, in COM
bination with the performance, there will
be an EliZabethan revel. The New Cen
tury Club has already given an afternoon
commemorative of Shakespeare the Con-
temporary Club devoted its last meeting
to a discussion of Shakespearean history
Festival-The most important item of
the commemoration exercises will be the
Shakespeare Festival at the Academy of
Music on Friday afternoon May II, at
o'clock Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree will
deliver the commemoration address on
"Shakespeare's Art" Mr.. David Bispham
will sing Shakespearean songs and read
the Seven Ages of Man" with musical
accompaniment. Mrs, otis Skinner will
read Ben Johnson's lode to Shake
speare." Mr. Alfred Noyes will read
commemoraton ode, written for the occa-
sion Under the direction of Mr. Henry
Gordon Thunder, chorus of 200, chosen
from the Mailer Symphony chorus, will
sing Shakespearean songs and a selected
orchestra will give instrumental music in
cidental to Shakespeare's plays. Old
English dances will probably form a
part of the program.
Reservations may be made now and
tickets will be sent in the order i'm which
applications are made. The prices will
be $3.50 for box seats, SO for the parquet
and the first two rows of the circle, 81. so
for the remainder of the circle and the
first two rows of the balcony 81 for the
remainder of the balcony, and rs cents
and so cents for the family circle and
the amphitheatre. Upon application, school
and college groups may obtain seats in
the family circle for so cents and in the
amphitheatre for 25 cents.
looks forward TO the creation of a per-
manent memorial to Shakespeare as the
principal outcome of the commemorative
program. The FairmOunt Park Art Asso-
citation has promised S1O,0 to a fund for
that purpose If the Tercentenary Commit
tee will furnish an equal amount. As the
committee has had no difficulty in already
securing half of the $4,000 deemed suf-
hcient to meet any deficit from the me-
mortal festival and exhibition, the fund
for the permanent memorial seems as
sured. The memorial itself will probably
take the form of a monument recording
by tablet and statue Philadelphias share
in the creation of Shakespearean tradi-
tion. Thus such actors as Forrest, JEFF
ferson, John Mccullough and Il. l.. Daven-
port, and the late Shakespearean scholar,
Furness would share in the memorial.
An illustrated catalogue OF the Shake
spearean exhibition Is now being prepared
which viii contain complete program OF
everything arranged by the committees
for the tereentenary including interesting
cuts a full list of committees, etc. The
catalogue will be on sale at the exhibition,
the festival and the Globe Theatre.