The New York herald., 1921-05-23

Cosmo Hamilton, wife of the playwrig
f. Gaunt Miss Carroll McComas nowe
appearing in Miss Lulu Bett," and
Miss Elsie Ferguson. who for the pres
ent has set aside the spoken for the
filmed drama and who in private life
is Mrs. Thomas r. Clarke, Jr.. the wife
OF a vice. president Of the Hartman
National Bank.
Heretofore the inclination OF Miss
Cottenet. who is a Schermerhorn con-
nection, had been chiefly in the direc-
ton OF music. an interest shared with
her brother. Mr.. Rawlins Lowndes Cot
tenet. director of the Metropolitan
Opera Company and composer OF songs
and instrumental pieces
As directing board of a humane
project destined to become an impor
tant part Of the civic life of New York
II not of the nation, this group of
women is eloquent of New YorS's new
social day that dawned during the war
and now is in the full light of a new.
era.
In the large cast that is to appear in
the elaborate programme arranged for
tonight there Is much of Significance.
Some OF the brightest luminaries of the
stage will be seen either in three short
plays or in Shakespearian pageant,
that are to form the full evenings en-
tertainment With them will appear
several amateur actors and actresses in
important parts.
Mrs. Hoyt In Speaking Part.
The performance is to give TO one OF
the players Mrs. Lydig Hoyt an oppor-
funity she dreamed of before she en-
tered professional stage career---the
chance to be seen and heard in speak
ing part In Broadway She. now is in
rehearsal for the movies but has con-
fcesed that the cinema IS for her only a
stepping stone to the spoken drama
The parts the amateurs and Mrs.
Hoyt will take will be In the pageant,
which is to be the first showing in New
York of Mr.. James s. Metcalfe's Chill
dren of the Bard"
The characters will include the much
married Henry VIII. and most Of his
wives.
Tomorrow night Henry will come to
life in the person of Mr.. stephen H. p.
Pell, who is receiving expert advice from
the property man IN Stimulating an ad-
ditional hundred pounds or more. so as
10 qualify in the matter OF size. In the
order OF historical sequence the quintet
formed out OF the uxorious kings sextet
will be as follows:
No. 1-Cdtharire Of Aragon (married
IN 1909 and the centre OF the most ia
nous divorce case in the court record Of
Fngland), Mrs. Alfred c. Bosom
No. e--Annc Bolcyn (who was mar
ried in January. 1888. and who com
pletely lost her head on May 10. three
years later), Mrs. Lydig Hoyt.
No. 3-Jdre Seymour (married the
day after her immediate predecessor lost
her head and died natural death, II is
said. in October OF the following year).
Mrs Monroe Douglas Robinson
No. 4--AHne Of Cicres (married Jan
uary 6. 1540. and divorced few months
later), Mrs. Charles dc Rham Jr.
No. 5--Cdtharine Hoto0rd (who was
married n week later and who. like No.
z, also lost her head completely. Mrs.
Cosmo Hamilton.
To complete this matrimonial record
II may again be recorded that No. s.
Catharinc Parr. was married year
after Catharine Howard was inundated.
She and Henry were still married when
he died In 1541. but as soon as Henry
was safely buried she married Lord Sey-
rour, q sort OF family connection. How
ever she only enjoyed her triumph ono
year. dying OF acute indigestion in 154s.
others I'm tho Cast.
Tho rest, Of the cast Of the pageant,
principally professional, is to be as fol-
lows:
George Arliss, shylock; Miss Con-
stance Binney. Dcsdemono. Sydney
Rlackmcr. Romeo. Rowland Blackstone.
grave digger, of course: Miss Frances
Carson, Viola: John Cope, King Lear;
Pedro de Cordoba Hamlet: Henry
Dixey, Touchstonc. John Drew, Petru-
chic. Gilbert Emery, Udiroiio: Miss.
F!sic Ferguson. Katherine: Miss Eva lc
Gallcnne, Ophefin. Miss Margalo GILL
more. Juliet. Miss Ruth Gilmore. Anne
Page. Miss Dorothy Gish, Mistress
PAGE. Miss Lillian Gish. Mistress Ford:
Ernest Glcndinning Bcnedick. Thurston
Hall, Henry w.: Wilton Lackaye, Fat
staf: Edmund Lowe. Hare inthoup.
Miss Carroll McComas. Rosohnd; Grant
Mitchell. slender. Tyrone Power. Othci-
10 Miss MARY Scrvoss. tudrcp. Charles
Trowbridgc. Brutus; Miss Helen Ware.
Lady Macbeth. Miss Gilda Varesi
Porfid.
Miss Faire Binney viii play puck. and
the fairies will come from Miss Ruth
Doing's dancing school.
Three one Act Plays.
Before the pageant will come three
ore act plays new TO the local stage.
They VIII be:
"Thc Recoli" hy a dead French play
wright with Miss Helen Ware. Miss
Marion Abbott Miss Catherine Roberts.
Frederick Burt and Wayne Linton In
the cast.
"The impeachment" BY Alan Brooks.
with Miss Carroll McComas and sydney
! Blackmer. and
"Miady's Face" by Edgar Allan
woolf with Miss Jessie Ruslcy, Miss
Jessie n lph and George stuart Christie.
The usherinR viii be done by some
members of the Junior League. with the
Misses Marie n, Lamarchc, Rita Boxer,
Julia Shearer. Ethel Hayes. y. Helena
Ogden. Ellen .Scmple. and Ruth Mardsn