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At 5.15 p.m. The Home-Coming. An Incident of Elizabethan England. It is a summer evening in the garden of an English Manor House. The tenants and others are assembled to welcome the young Lord of the Manor, who is bringing his bride to her new home. The guests have finished their supper, and are brought on to the lawn to be entertained by musicians, dances, and players from the town. As follows: 1. A Bergomask Dance. 2. Dowland's "Lachrymae". 3. "Lobe's Chase". Treble: Master Sydney Nokes, Bass: Mr. William Forington, Treble Violin & Viol: Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, Treble Viol: Miss Cecile Dolmetsch, Tenor Viol: Miss Nathalie Dolmetsch, Dancers: Mrs Dolmetsch and her children, Misses Rene Waller, Olga Morris, Yvonne Mestoro, Charlotte Skirrow, Kitty Haynes, Beatrice Filmer, P. Foster, E. Hiller, Messrs. P.G. Macpherson, A. W. Osborne, C. E. Pearson, Charles Thomas, Bass Viols: Mrs. Dolmetsch, Miss Beatrice Horne, Virginals: Mlle. Gabrielle Methot, Drum: Master Rudolph Dolmetsch, Pipe & Tabor: Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch. 4. King Henry VI. Part 1, Act II, Scene 4, - by William Shakespeare. Scene. London : The Temple garden. The Earl of Somerset – Mr. Ben Webster, The Earl of Suffolk – Mr. Herbert Bunston, The Earl of Warwick – Mr. Edward Combermere, Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York – Mr. H. A. Saintsbury, Vernon, a Lawyer – Mr. E. Lyall Swete, Another Lawyer – Mr. C. Wordley Hulse. As this ends, the coach-horn announces the arrival the Bride and Bridegroom. Some of their friends run to meet them. They have been anticipated by others who have welcomes them at the gate, and formed a processional escort. The Dowager Lady of the Manor welcomes the Bridge and Bridegroom, and hands over her Chatelaine's keys. Two ancient pensioners of the family are allowed prominence in the welcome. Their little grandchild proffers to the Bridge a nosegay of cottage flowers. The fiddler starts a merry tune, and all dance off into the hall. The Dowager Lady of the Manor – Miss Ellen Terry, The Lord of the Manor – Mr. Dennis Neilson-Terry, The Lady of the Manor – Miss Evelyn Hope, The Bishop of the Diocese (sometime Chaplain to the Family) – Mr. Charles Daly, Present Chaplain – Mr. Allan Wade, The Family Doctor – Mr. F. B. Sharp, The Family Lawyer – Mr. A. B. Tapping, The Farm Bailiff – Mr. W. G. Fay, Falconer – Mr. Arthur Cleave, MR. Edward Maples, Huntsman – Mr. Rutland Barrington, Mr. William Lugg, The Jester – Mr. C. Hayden Coffin, Ancient Pensioners – Miss Claire Greet, Mr. O. B. Clarence, Their Descendant – Miss Babs Farren, Mistress of the Household – Miss May Whitty. Ladies and Gentleman of the Household, and Guests. Lady Benson, Miss Mary Barton, Miss Lilian Braithwaite, Miss Marianne Caldwell, Miss Jane Comfort, Miss Laura Cowie, Miss Vera Cunningham, Miss Barbara Everest, Miss Odette Gombault, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Amy Lamborn, Miss grace Lane, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Miss Ellen O'Malley, Miss Enid Rose, Miss Rhoda Symons, Miss Betty Ward, Miss Dorothy Warren, Miss Peggy Webster. Sir George Alexander, Sir Frank Benson, Mr. Robert Atkins, Mr Ivan Bervyn, Mr. E. Holman Clark, Mr. P. Percival Clark, Mr. Val Cuthbert, Mr. Stanley Drewitt, Mr. A. E. George, Mr. H. R. Hignet, Mr. Kenneth Kent, Mr. Dawson Milward, Mr. E. H. Paterson, Mr. Edmund Phelps, Mr. Leon Quartermaine, Mr. E. Vivian Reynolds, Mr. Fisher White, Mr. Arthur Wontner, Mr. E. Pardoe Woodman. The incident devised and arranged by MR. A. E. Drinkwater.
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