Evening star., 1921-08-14

some facts about the Shakespeare
Club wherewith to keep the Ram
bler's promise.
The Shakespeare Club was organ
ized in 1863. 1t may have had more
than two presidents, but ! never
| heard of them. One was Ed. Hay and
| the other Job Barnard, a judge. A
note to the Rambler says: The club
had a social feature-after the pro-
GRIM tspelled with two ms" and an
''e") was a collation..
The histrionic part was more than
Shakespearean, and there was recita-
ion, music. vocal and instrumental.
Hardly any one talented but contrib
| uted sometime" Among the steady
and persistent actors in this dear old
society were Mrs. Gay Robertson.
Fred. Siddons. viii Conley, Jesse H.
Travis Cocker, Anna Cocker tMrs.
William B. Bagman), Miss Anita
Shade and Miss Marguerite Spalding
Some thoughtful friend of the Ram
bier has sent him a little program
which the years have made dingy.
On the cover of the program is this:
Shakespeare Club entertained in
honor of Shakespeare's Birthday, Sat-
urday, April %, 1887. at the residence
of Judge C. j. Hillyer. 2121 Massa-
chusetts avenue" On the two inside
pages of the program are many
familiar literary and musical selec-
tions" and familiar names of people.
1 would like to show you this little
program. but how can it be done?
There are SO many of you, and you
are scattered all about the city and
forty-eight states. But i will tell
you what is in. or on. this bill. 1t
Miss Leavitt. Messrs. Stone and
SZemelenyi: recitation. The Seven
Ages of Man, Mr.. John Tweedale;
aria from 'Semiramide.' Miss Kitty
Slosson; grave-digging scene from
'Hamlet'-Hamlet. Mr. E. c. Townsend:
second grave digger. Mr.. Talbot Pu-
lizzi: Horatio. Mr.. Fred Queen
After alas poor Yorick's skull had
been disposed of and Hamlet had got
ten the soliloquy out of his system
there came a violin solo by Miss Lii
ship scene from Henry "" with
George Erdman as King Harry, Janet
Richards as Queen Kate, and Amy
Leavitt as Alice. Janet talked then
just as well as she does now. and just
as much, and Amy played the role of
Alice as beautifully as she played the
piano, which is saying sonnet After
the courtship, Miss Kate Scott and
Miss Eulalie Domer sang Song of
the Birds" and the birds couldn't
scene from the Tanning of the
Shrew," with Ed. Hay as Petruchio,
Rosa Poesche as Kate. W. A. Doyle as
Grumio, and A. L. Ogle as Tailor.
Miss Kate Scott sang the pages song
from the "Huguenots" 1--WE had real
music in those far-gone days) and
Mr. Szemelenyi (printer. be careful
with that name) played selections
from Godard's Concerto Roman
tique."
A male quartette sang a glee from
"a Winters Tale" the glee having
Mrs. NJ. S. Hopkins. The Quartette
were E. B. Hay, w. H. Daniel. c. c.
Letter and E. J. Whipple. The next
part of the show was called Shake
spearean Hall of Statuary." and as
statues Dr. z. r. Rust and Miss Clapp
represented Troilus and Cressida,
Charles Murphy and Miss L. G.
Grigsby represented Lear and Cor
della, the little princes in the tower
were done by Master Arthur Pilling
and Master Vivian Burnett, E. c.
Townsend stood for Hamlet, Kitty
Slosson did Ophelia, and Miss Rhodes
posed as Joan Of Arc. And then re-
treshments!
THE Rambler has in his pocket sew
L eraI clippings concerning the
Shakespeare Club. He says that he
has these clippings in his pocket.
because he feels that you have tired
of having him write "There lies be-
side the Rambler a faded program" !"
One of these clippings shows that
the Shakespeare Club was entertained
Saturday evening (the year is of no
consequence by Mr.. and Mrs. Lorin
M, Saunders at their home on WASH
ington Heights. Mrs. Northrup played
the plano, Guy Collinsc recited "ll Tro-
vatore"; Anita Shade. Amy Leavitt and
Will Conley did a scene from the
Merchant of Venice; Will Conley sang
But the Cat Came Back" and Hue
, kleberry Doo"; Talbot Pulizzi reciteS
one of those sweet things from Claude
Melnotte. and very likely it was Nay.
dearest, nay; If thou wouldst have me
paint the home to which, could love
fulfill it's prayers. this hand would lead
thee. listen: Ralph Jefferson recited
"The Chinese Question; Ed Hay sang
-'Mr. Watkins Evening Party" John
Tweedale recited "On the Road to
Mandalay." Amy Leavitt read 'The
Business Meeting of the Rosedale
Sewing Society,"" H. H. Gilfrey de-
livered King Henry VI on the Bat
tiefleld," Anna White recsted The
Singing Leaves" and among those
Fpresenf were" Mrs. James o. Gle
phane, Mrs. B. II. Warner. Miss War
ner. Mr. and Mrs. A. A.. Birney, Miss
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