Document ID ET-D398
| Archive Location | ET PROGS ET-D235-418, 1916 (BL) Loan 125/22/9 |
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| Document description | programme |
| Date | 13 July 1916 |
| Document form | D - Programme |
| Corporate Body | British Red Cross; Order of St John of Jerusalem |
| Printer | Chiswick Press |
| Printer address | Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London |
| Production Date(s) | Thursday 13 July 1916 to Friday 14 July 1916 |
| Venue | Middle Temple Hall and Gardens |
| Time of performance | 3pm |
| Stage Manager | E. Vivian Reynolds |
| Scene Designer | Norman Wilkinson |
| Costume Maker | Simmons & Co. |
| Costume Designer | Norman Wilkinson, Percy Macquoid |
| Orchestra | Grenadier Guards; Coldstream Guards. Temple choir. |
| Conductor | Lieut. A. Williams, Capt. J. M. Rogan |
| General notes | The Temple Fete, in aid of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Music arranged by Nellie Chaplin. Play rehearsed by Oswald Marshall. |
| Language | English |
Works Cited
| Title | Twelfth Night |
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| Original author | William Shakespeare |
| Title | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Original author | William Shakespeare |
| Title | Henry VI |
| Original author | William Shakespeare |
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Red Cross Fete, Middle Temple 1916. Twelfth Night.
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The Temple Fete In Aid of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Middle Temple Hall & Gardens on Thursday and Friday 13 and 14 July 1916. Programme.
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Of Masques and Triumphs. These things are but Toyes, to come amongst such Serious Observations. But yet, since Princes will have such Things, it is better, they should be Graced with Elegancy, then Daubed with Cost – Bacon. At 3. P.m. Scenes from Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night. Orsino – Mr. Arthur Wontner, Sebastian – Mr. Dennis Neilson-Terry, Antonio – Mr. Dawson Milward, Valentine – Mr. William Armstrong, Curio – Mr. Warwick Ward, Sir Toby Belch – Mr. A. E. George, Sir Andrew Aguecheek – Mr. Leon Quartermaine, Malvolio – Mr. E. Holman Clarke, Fabian – Mr. Alfred Harris, Feste – Mr. C. Hayden Coffin, Priest – Mr. Allan Wade, Servant – Mr. Nelson Keys, Page – Miss Odette Gombault, First Officer – Mr. Alfred Brydone, Second Officer – Mr. Ernest E. Graham, Olivia – Miss Laura Cowie, Maria – Miss Marianne Caldwell, Viola – Miss Lillah McCarthy, Ladies – Misses Enid Rose, Dorothy Warren, Fredericka Laurie, Mary Barton. Decorations of the Play and Costumes designed by Mr. Norman Wilkinson. The Old Music arranged by miss Nellie Chaplin. The Elizabethan Sword Manners and Sword Play kindly advised upon by Mr. Egerton Castle. The Play rehearsed by Mr. Oswald Marshall. The First Scene present is Act 1, Scene 5, at the Countess Olivia's House. It is followed by Act II, Scene 2, a Street; Act II, Scene 3, a Room in Olivia's house; Act II, Scene 4, at the Duke Orsino's; and Act II, Scene 5, Act III, Scene 4, Act IV, Scene I, and Act V, all in Olivia's Garden.
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Scenes From Shakespeare's Comedy of Much Ado About Nothing. Don Pedro – Mr. Herbert Waring, Claudio – Mr. Ben Webster, Benedick – Sir George Alexander, Leonato – Mr. Alfred Bishop, Balthasar – Mr. Ben Davies, Friar – Mr. E. Vivian Reynolds, Boy – Master Arthur Lowrie, Hero – Miss Lilian Braithwaite, Beatrice – Miss Ellen Terry, Margaret – Miss Ellen O'Malley, Ursuala – Miss Dorothy Green. Scene I. Before Leonato's House, Scene II. Leonato's Garden. Stage Manager – E. Vivian Reynolds. At 3.45 p.m. Programme arranged by Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch. 1. (i) "Fortune my Foe." (ii) "Green Sleeves". 2. Two Dances; (i) Brawl. (ii) Coranto. 3. Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard. 4. The Canaries, a Dance. 5. (i) The Sick Tune (ii) "Light o' Love". 6. The Original Settings: (i) "Full Fathom Five" (ii) "Where the Bee sucks"7. La Volta, a Dance. The Names of the Performers. Treble: Miss Cecile Dolmetsch, Alto: Master Rudolph Dolmetsch, Recorder: Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, Virginal: Mlle. Gabrielle Methot, Treble Violin: Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch, Dancers: Mrs. Dolmetsch and her Three Children: Cecile, Nathalie, and Rudolph, Treble Viol: - Miss Cecile Dolmetsch, Tenor Viol: Miss Nathalie Dolmetsch, Bass Viols: Mrs. Arnold Dolmetsch, Miss Beatrice Horne. At 5.45 p.m. Programme of Songs and Part-Songs to be sung by Members of the Temple Choir. 1. Elizabethan Songs (a) Now is the months of Maying – Morley (b) Awake, sweet Love – Dowland (c) Fire, Fire, my heart – Morley. 2. Songs from Shakespeare. As You Like It - It was a Lover and his Lass – Morley. Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind – Arne. Mr. Norman Stone. You spotted Snakes (Midsummer Night's Dream) Winter's Tale – Jog on, Jog on, the Footpath Way, Pedlar's, Clown's Songs from Twelfth Night Song – Walford Davies. Mr. Gregory Hast. The Tempest, The Cloud-capt Towers – Stevens, Full Fatherom Five – Charles Wood. O England! Model of thy inward greatness – Anon.
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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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Thursday Afternoon, 13th July. The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. By permission of Colonel Sir Henry Streatfeild, K.C.V.O., C.B. Conductor : Lieut. A. Williams, M.V.O., Mus.Doc. Oxon. Part 1. 1. Patriotic March – For the Front (including "It's a long, long way to Tipperary") – A. Williams. 2. Selection – Merrie England – Ed. German. 3. Valse – The Grenadiers – Waldteufel. 4. Four English Dances (In the Olden Style) (i) Stately Dance (ii) Country Dance (iii) Graceful Dance (iv) Rustic Dance – Cowen. 5. "Country Wedding" Symphony (a) Brantlied (b) Scherzo – Goldmark. Part II. 6. Overture – Mirella – Gounod, 7. (a) Noel (a paraphrase of an old French Carol) Th. Dubois, (b) Valse Creole – Tschaikowsky, 8. Three Symphonic Dances - Ed. Grieg, 9. Salut D'Armour – Ed. Elgar, 10. Selection – Bric-a-Brac – Monckton and Fincke. Part III. 11. Overture – Joan of Arc – Verdi, 12. Three Dances from the Incidental Music to Henry VIII – Ed. German (i) Morris Dance (ii) Shepherd's Dance (iii) Torch Dance. 13. Selection – Haddon Hall – Sullivan. 14. (a) Gavotte and Musette – J. S. Bach, (b) Praeludium – Jarnefelt, 15. Selection – To-Night's the Night – Rubens. God Save the King. Friday Afternoon, 14th July. The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. By permission of Colonel J. A. G. Richardson-Drummond-Hay. Conductor. Capt. J. Mackenzie Rogan, M.V.O., Mus.Doc., Hon. R.A.M. La Marseillaise. 1. Dramatic Overture – Patrie – Bizet. 2. Incidental Music from Henry VIII (i) King Henry's Song (ii) Graceful Dance – Sullivan. 3. Idyll – Coates. 4. Masque from As You Like It – Ed. German. 5. Entr'acte – Rose Mousse – Bose. 6. Chanson Negre – Le Bananier – Gottschalk. 7. Gipsy Serenade – El Saludo – Ancliffe. 8. Three Small Pieces– (i) Barcarolle (ii) Donce Reverie (iii) Petite Valse – Tschaikovsky. 9. Caprice – Tubaphone – Anon. 10. Fantasia A Summer Day in Norway – Willmers. 11. Capricho Espagnol – Moraima – Espinosa. 12. Bourree and Gigue from Much Ado About Nothing – Ed. German. 13. Incidental Music to Monsieur Beaucaire – Rosse. 14. Danse des Bohemiens from Le Tasse – Godard. God Save the King.
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At 4.15 p.m. Punch and Judy Flower Tent presided over by Mrs. Patrick Campbell assisted by Lady Juliet Duff and The Flowers White Rose – Mrs. Talbot Watson, Moss Rose – Mrs. Beech (Miss Stella Campbell), Larkspur – Mrs. Alan Parsons (Miss Viola Tree), Tea Rose – Miss Gladys Cooper, Love-in-the-Mist – Miss Doris Keane, Sweet Pea – Miss Marie Lohr. Shakespeare's Will by permission of Sir Samuel Evans is to be on exhibition. The original of Lord Kitchener's "Call to Arms" will be on view, by permission of the owner, Mr. T. Fenwick Harrison. Flower Children. Miss Gwendollen Evans, Miss Susan Burney, Miss Margaret Macdonald, Miss Rachel Burney, Master Peter Ducros, Master Marc Fitch, Master Anthony Penton, Master David Tennant. Tea Waitresses and Programme Sellers. Mrs. High Adams, Miss Phyliss Agnew, Miss Aird, Miss Elisabeth Asquith, Miss Peggy Astbury, Mrs. Arthur Boyd, Mrs. Henry Boyd, Mrs. Stewart Browne, Miss Brunner, Miss Mills Clifford, Miss Coghlan, Mrs. Arthur Collins, Mrs. Edred Corner, Miss Crook, Lady Crosfield, Miss Nancy Cunard, Miss Evelyn Curzon, Miss Dickens, Miss J. Dickinson, Mrs. Ambrose Dudley, Mrs. Dummett, Mrs. Francis Durant, Mrs. Dennis Eadie, Miss Hurry Fenwick, Mrs. Hugh Fitch, Mrs. Raoul Foa, Miss Foa, Mrs. J. M. Gath, Miss Lloyd George, Miss Goodall, Miss Theo Greene, The Lady Greville, Mrs. Clement Gurney, Miss Haldin, Mrs. Hawkins, Miss Nancy Howard, Miss Hunter, Hon. Elaine Jenkins, Mrs. Jorgensen, Mrs. Leon, Miss Leon, Miss Madge Levey, Miss Lewis, Lady Diana Manners, Mrs. Geoffery Marks, Mrs. Gerald Du Maurier, Miss Mieville, Mrs. De Mattos Mocatta, Mrs. Own Mocatta, Miss Mary Mond, Lady Newnes, Mrs. William Pasteur, Hon. Mrs. Peel, Mrs. Roy Piggott, Miss Pilcher, Miss Anne Pollack, Miss Elisabeth Pollock, Miss Milsome Rees, Miss Riddiford, Hon. Diana Robson, Miss Doris Robson, Miss Phyllis Sedgwick, The Viscountess Southwell, Mrs. Stoddart Te, Miss Turner, Mrs. Vedrenne, Miss Daisy Williams, Baroness P. de Worms, Miss Wrench, Miss Wigglesworth, Miss Seppings-Wright.
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The Thanks of the Committee are gratefully tendered to The Artists who have so generously given their services, and the Managements who have given permission for their appearance; to Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch and his Elizabethan Musicians and Dancers; to Messrs. Val Cuthbert, Edward Maples, E. H. Paterson, and A. B. Tapping, who have assisted on the Stage and in the Gardens; to Mr. Charles C. Tudway, of Wells, Somerset, to his band of workers, headed by Mrs. Evan Davis, Comdt. Cedars Red Cross Hospital, Wells, and to all the Nurserymen, who I'm so kindly helped in the decoration of the Gardens, and in providing flowers and fruit for the Flower Tent; to Mrssrs. Crowther & Sons, North End Road, and Messrs. Pulham and Sons, Newman Street, for the loan of garden ornaments; to Messrs. Fromow and Son, Chiswick, for the loan of Japanese Maples; to Messrs. Sylvester, Sloane Square, for the loan of plants and flowers; to Mr. T. Fenwick Harrison, for allowing Lord Kitchener's letter to be exhibited; to Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lady Juliet Duff, and their bevy of fair assistants in the Flower Tent; to Mr. Percy Macquoid, for designing the dresses which have been executed by Messrs. B. E. Simmons and Co., King Street, Covent Garden; to Mr. A. Musgrave, Senior Registrar of the Probate Court, for help in connection with Shakespeare's Will; to Messrs. Partingtons, Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons, Messrs. Walter Hill and Co., and the Manager of the Underground Railway, for much generous assistance in advertising; and to All the Ladies and Gentlemen and Children who in so many and various ways have contributed to the success of the Fete. But enough of these Toyes.-
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Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London.
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