Shakespearean tercentenary exercises, George Washington University
Contributors: Memorial Continental Hall (Washington, D.C.); George Washington University; Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1916
Language: eng
Subjects: Anniversaries
Description: "Shakespearean Tercentenary Exercises," George Washington University, program arranged by the Enosinian Society, organized 1822. Memorial Continental Hall, Thursday evening, May Fourth, 1916. President Charles Herbert Stockton, presiding. Miss Ethel Garret Johnston, pianist.
Notes: George Washington University [Washington, D.C.], Memorial Continental Hall, Thursday evening, May 4, 1916.

Title devised by Library staff.

The Quartet: Mrs. Elizabeth S. Maxwell, Miss Lillian Chenoweth, contralto, Mr. William E. Braithwaite, tenor, Mr. Joseph K. Schofield, baritone.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Program: Overture / G.W.U. Orchestra; title: Shakespeare Three Centuries Hence / Honorable Thomas P. Gore; title: The Closet Scene from "Hamlet," Act III, Scene IV / Reverend and Mrs. Geo. Buckler; title: The Humanness of Shakespeare / Reverend Earle Wilfley; title: The Bargain Scene from "The Merchant of Venice," Act I, Scene III. The Soliloquy from "Hamlet," Act II, Scene I / Mr. R.D. Shepherd; title: Songs from Shakespeare / The National Quartet: 1. It was a Lover and His Lass, from "As You Like It,'Act V, Scene III / Quartet; title: 2. Who is Sylvia, from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Act IV, Scene II / Mr. Braithwaite; title: 3. How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps, from "The Merchant of Venice," Act V, Scene I / Quartet; title: 4. I Know a Bank Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows, from "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," Act II, Scene I / Mrs. Maxwell and Miss Bumphrey; title: 5. a. Hark, Hark, the Lark, from "Cymbeline," Act II, Scene III. b. When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue, from "Love's Labor Lost," Act V, Scene II. c. Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark, from "Venus and Adonis" / Mrs. Maxwell; title: 6/ Where the Bee Sucks, from "The Tempest," Act V, Scene I / Quartet; title: Portia's Plea with Brutus, from "Julius Caesar," Act II, Scene I / Mrs. Mary Randolph Dickens and Mr. Maurice Jarvis; title: Educational Values in the Comedies / Dean William Allen Wilbur.