Shakespeare Club entertainment in honor of Shakespeare's birthday
Contributors: Shakespeare Club (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1887
Language: eng
Subjects: Anniversaries
Other titles: Shakespeare's birthday
Description: Shakespeare Club Entertainment in Honor of Shakespeare's Birthday, Saturday, April 23, 1887.
Notes: Saturday, April 23, 1887, at the residence of Judge C.J. Hillyer, 2121 Mass. Avenue.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Mr. E.C. Townsend, Mr. J.P. Philp, Mr. Talbot Pulizzi, Mr. Fred Queen, Mr. G.F. Erdman, Miss Janet Richards, Miss Amy Leavitt, Mr. E.B. Hay, Miss Rosa Poesche, Mr. W.A. Doyle, Mr. A.I. Ogle, Dr. E.B. Rust, Miss Clapp, Mr. Chas. Murphy, MIss L.G. Grigsby, Master Arthur Pilling, Master Vivian Burnett, Miss Slosson, Miss Rhodes.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Programme: Overture: "Barber of Seville" / Miss Leavitt, Messrs. Stone and Szemelenyi; title: Recitation "The Seven Ages of Man" / Mr. John Tweedale; title: Ara from "Semiramide" / Miss Kitty Slosson; title: Grave-Digging Scene from Hamlet, violin solo: Miss Lillian Parslow; title: Courtship Scene from Henry V. Vocal Duet "Song of the Birds" / Rubenstein, Misses Scott and Domer; title: Scene from "Taming of the Shrew" (Act IV, Scene III). "Pages Song" from the "Huguenots" / Miss Kate Scott. Recitativo, Adagio and Canzonetta from Concerto Romantique / Godard, Mr. Szemelenyi; title: Male Quartette: A Glee from "Winter's Tale" / composed for the occasion by Mrs. M.S. Hopkins, Messrs. E.B. Hay, W.H. Daniel, C.C. Lefler and E.J. Whipple; title: Shakespearean Hall of Statuary: "Troilus and Cressida," "Lear and Cordelia," "The Little Princes in the Tower," "Hamlet," "Ophelia," "Joan of Arc"; title: Music: Romance by Ries / Mr. Szemelenyi.