Document ID ET-D471

Archive Location ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1910 (BL) Loan 125/23A/4
Document description programme
Date 28 April 1910
Document form D - Programme
Document attributes Annotated
Production Date(s) 28 March 1910 to 30 April 1910
Venue His Majesty's Theatre
Stage Manager Cecil King
Music Director Adolf Schmid
General notes Diary of the London Shakespeare Festival giving performance dates of all the Shakespeare plays to be performed.
Language English
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Diary Herbert Beerbohm Tree begs to announce The Sixth Year of the London Shakespeare Festival 28th March to 30th April, 1910. His Majesty's Theatre.

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London Shakespeare Festival 1910. Committee F. R. Benson, Arthur Bourchier, Martin Harvey, H. B. Irving, Cyril Maude, William Poel, Otho Stuart, Fred Terry, Herbert Trench, Lewis Waller, Mrs. Kendal, Miss Ellen Terry, Herbert Beerbohm Tree (Chairman) Stage Manager – Cecil King, Associate Stage Manager – Stanley Bell, Musical Director – Adolf Schmid. General Manager – Henry Dana.

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London Shakespeare Festival first week. Monday March 28 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor, Tuesday March 29 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Wednesday March 30 Afternoon Merry Wives of Windsor Wednesday March 30 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Thursday March 31 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Friday April 1 Evening, Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, W. G. Fay, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, C. H. Croker-King, Nigel Playfair, E. M. Robson, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert, Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Kate Phillips, Miss Ellen Terry, Lady Tree. Saturday April 2 Afternoon Julius Caesar, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Elinor Foster, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Evelyn Millard. Saturday April 2 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, W. G. Fay, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, C. H. Croker-King, Nigel Playfair, E. M. Robson, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Kate Phillips, Miss Ellen Terry, Lady Tree.

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London Shakespeare Festival Second Week. Monday April 4 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor, Tuesday April 5 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Wednesday April 6 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, W. G. Fay, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, C. H. Croker-King, Nigel Playfair, E. M. Robson, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Kate Phillips, Miss Ellen Terry, Lady Tree. Thursday April 7 Afternoon Twelfth Night Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, Hubert Carter, Norman Forbes, Gerald Lawrence, Edward Sass, Fred Terry, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Esme Hubbard, Miss Phillida Terson. Thursday April 7 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor Friday April 8 Evening, Merry Wives of Windsor, Saturday April 9 Afternoon Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, W. G. Fay, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, C. H. Croker-King, Nigel Playfair, E. M. Robson, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Kate Phillips, Lady Tree. Saturday April 9 Evening Twelfth Night - Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, Hubert Carter, Gerald Lawrence, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Esme Hubbard, Miss Phillida Terson.

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London Shakespeare Festival Third Week. Monday April 11 Evening Hamlet, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Nigel Playfair, Edward Sass, Norman Trevor, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy, Miss Helen Haye. Tuesday April 12 Afternoon King Lear, Herbert Trench's Haymarket Company including Charles V. France, James Hearn, H. R. Hignett, Normal McKinnel, Dawson Milward, Normal Page, Charles Quartermaine, J. Fisher White, Miss Ellen O'Malley. Tuesday April 12 Evening Julius Caesar, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Elinor Foster, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Evelyn Millard. Wednesday April 13 Afternoon The Merchant of Venice, Arthur Bourchier and Company including Miss Dorothea Baird, A. E. George, A. Holmes-Gore, Godfrey Tearle, Arthur Wontner, Miss Muriel Beaumont, Miss Enid Sass. Wednesday 13 April Evening Julius Caesar, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Elinor Foster, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Evelyn Millard. Thursday April 14 Afternoon Hamlet, H. B. Irving and Queen's Theatre Company including Charles Allan, A. E. George, Eille Norwood, Tom Reynolds, Frank Tyars, Henry Vibart Arthur Wontner, Miss Dorothea Baird, Miss Dora Barton, Miss Esme Beringer. Thursday April 14 Evening Friday April 15 Evening Julius Caesar, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Elinor Foster, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Evelyn Millard. Saturday April 16 Afternoon Hamlet, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Nigel Playfair, Edward Sass, Norman Trevor, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy, Miss Helen Haye. Saturday April 16 Evening Twelth Night, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, Hubert Carter, Gerald Lawrence, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Esme Hubbard, Miss Phillida Terson.

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London Shakespeare Festival Fourth week. Monday April 18 Evening The Taming of the Shrew, Tuesday April 19 Afternoon Coriolanus, F. r. Benson, Mrs. Benson and their Shakespearean Company, Alfred Brydone, Murray Carrington, John Howell, J. Moffat Johnston, Eric Maxon, H. O. Nicholson, Miss Elinor Aickin, Miss Violet Farebrother, Miss Nora Lancaster, Miss Genevieve Ward. Tuesday April 19 Evening Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, W. G. Fay, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, C. H. Croker-King, Nigel Playfair, E. M. Robson, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert, Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Kate Phillips, Miss Ellen Terry, Lady Tree. Wednesday April 20 Evening Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Elizabethan Stage Society Company, under the direction of William Poel. Thursday April 21 Afternoon King Henry V. Lewis Waller and Lyric Theatre Company including J. H. Barnes, Shiel Barry, William Devereux, A. E. George, William Mollison, Alec. F. Thompson, Frank Woolfe, Mrs. Tapping, Miss Made Titheradge. Thursday April 21 Evening Twelfth Night, Friday April 22 Evening Twelfth Night, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, Hubert Carter, Gerald Lawrence, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Esme Hubbard. Saturday April 23 Afternoon Hamlet, Henry Ainley, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Nigel Playfair, Edward Sass, Norman Trevor, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy, Miss Helen Haye. Saturday April 23 Evening Julius Caesar, Henry Ainley, Sheil Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Elinor Foster, Miss Iris Hoey, Miss Evelyn Millard.

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London Shakespeare Festival Fifth week. Monday April 25 Evening The Merchant of Venice, Tuesday April 26 Evening The Merchant of Venice, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, W. R. Creighton, W. G. Fay, William Haviland, Nigel Playfair, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy, Miss Margaret Busse, Miss Hilda Moore, Wednesday April 27 Evening King Richard II. Thursday April 28 Evening King Richard II., Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, Hubert Carter, Lyn Harding, William Haviland, Edward Sass, Jules Shaw, Herbert, Beerbohm Tree, Miss Iris Hoey. Friday April 29 Afternoon Special Bill, including (a) An Act from Othello (b) An Act from Macbeth (c) An Act from The Clandestine Marriage (d) A Recitation, (a) Othello - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Iago – H. B. Irving, Emilia – Miss Constance Collier (b) Macbeth – Arthur Bourchier, Lady Macbeth – Miss Violet Vanbrugh (c) Lord Ogleby – Cyril Maude (d) Mrs. Kendal has kindly consented to recite on this occasion. Friday April 29 Evening The Merchant of Venice, Saturday April 30 Evening The Merchant of Venice, Henry Ainley, Shiel Barry, J. W. Braithwaite, Hubert Carter, W. R. Creighton, W. G. Fay, William Haviland, Nigel Playfair, Edward Sass, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy, Miss Margaret Busse, Miss Hilda Moore

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List of Artists appearing in the London Shakespeare Festival, 1910, Abingdon, W. B., Aickin, Miss Elinor, Ainley, Henry, Ayres, Arthur, Baird, Miss Dorothea, Barnes, J. H., Barrie, Shiel, Barton, Miss Dora, Bealby, George, Beaumont, Miss Muriel, Bellwe, Alfred, Benson, F. R. Benson, Mrs. F. R., Bentley, S. A., Beringer, Miss Esme, Boag, Tom, Bolder, Robert, Bond, Acton, Bourchier, Arthur, Braithwaite, J. W., Branscombe, C., Bristowe, Alfred, Brown, W. A., Brydone, Alfred, Buchill, William. Busse, Miss Margaret, Caine, Harry, Cairns, Dallas, Caithness, W. W., Carrington, Murray, Carter, Hubert, Charlton, Chute, Miss Margaret, Cleave, Arthur, Collier, Miss Constance, Conroy, Frank, Cobb, Sassels, Cochrane, Frank, Creighton, Walter, Croker-King, C. H., Currie, Clive, Curtis, Arthur, Curwen, Patric, D'Alroy, Miss Evelyn, Dallas, C., Dane, Reginald, De Serville, Miss, Devereux, William, Digan, Patrick, Duff, Master Harry, Durie, Miss Winifred, Dyall, Franklin, Edmunds, Claude, Esmond, Frank, Farebrother, Miss Violet, Fay, W. G., Ferrar, Miss Ada, Forbes, Norman, Fordham, King, Foreman, Miss Marion, Forsyth, Bertram, Foster, Miss Elinor, France, Charles V. Gaston, H., George, A. E., Gingold, Miss Hermione, Graham, Stuart, Graham, W. Haines, W. R., Harding, Lyn, Harwood, John, Haviland, William, Haye, Miss Helen, Hearn, James, Heatherley, Clifford, Hemingway, Miss Marie, Heselwood, Tom, Hewitt, Harry C., Hignett, H. R., Hoey, Miss Iris, Holmes-Gore, A. Hope, Miss Maidie, Howell, John, Hubbard, Miss Esme, Hutton, R. W., Imbert, Doulgas, Irvine, J. H., Irving, H. B., James, Frederick, Johnson, J. Moffat, Lancaster, Miss Nora

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List of Artists – Continued. Lawrence, Gerald, Lewis, Fred, Leyton, H. Lawrence, Markham, Miss Daisy, Maude, Cyril, McGuiness, C, McKinnel, Norman, Maxon, Eric, Meltzer, Harold, Millard, Miss Evelyn, Milward, Dawson, Mollison, William, Moore, Miss Hilda, Morell, Henry, Musgrave, Kenyon, Musgrove, Stuart, Napper, J. H., Nicholson, H. O., Norwood, Eille, O'Malley, Miss Ellen, Outram, Frazer, Page, Norman, Paxton, Sydney, Pertwee, Roland, Phillips, Miss Kate, Playfair, Nigel, Plinge, Master J., Polini, Miss Marie, Quartermaine, Charles, Randell, Frank, Rathbone, Guy B., Rex, Carleton, Reynolds, Tom, Ridley, Edward, Robertson, John, Robson, E. M., Saker, Miss May, Sass, Edward, Sass, Miss Enid, Scott-Gatty, A., Shaw, Jules, Sherbrooke, Michael, Sherman, C. Kent, Sherrard, J., Smithson, H., Tapping, H., Tapping, Mrs., Tabberer, Hugh B., Tearle, Godfrey, Terry, Miss Ellen, Terry, Fred, Terson, Miss Phillida, Thompson, Alec F., Titheradge, Miss Madge, Tree, Herbet Beerbohm, Tree, Lady, Trevor, Norman, Turnbull, James, Tyars, Frank, Vibart, Henry, Waller, Lewis, Warburton, E. A., Ward, Eric, Ward, Miss Genevieve, Warmington, S. J. White, J. Fisher, Wild, Alfred, Wilson, Cronin, Wontner Arthur, Woodville Keeton, Woolfe, Frank.

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Prices Reserved Seats: Private Boxes, £4 4s., £3 3s. and £1 11s 6d. Stalls, 10s 6d. Balcony Stalls, 7s. 6d. Balcony, 5s. Upper Circle, 4s,., 3s. and 2s. Unreserved Seats : Pit, 2s. 6d. Gallery, 1s. Box Office Open Daily 10 to 10 Telephone : Gerrard 1777. For Schools and large parties special terms can be made on application to the Manager.

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Document ID: ET-D471 Archive location: ET PROGS ET-D418a-551;561a-589, 1910 (BL) Loan 125/23A/4