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A STIRRING SPECTACLE. 13,000 PERFORMERS: A

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER JED, 1924

In the largest open-air theatre of antient dera tine the Pageant of Empire, by far the greatest spectacle of its kint ever produces, was presented for the fint time on July 28th in thus Stadiums as Taulbles

before an

16. Se mudlenes of 12,00

Prince

of Comunught, president of Critère of the Fampire

Tudor Feast day is illustrated in period dances the joust of knights and a procession of the queens of beauty with groups of boautiful maidens and werry youths In comes. &. herald, ritling furiously to announce by

of sh

trumpets the approach of the Sherills and City guilds arrive on horseback to grated by fanfares of trumpets and Queen, and the Lord Mayor and

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Then comes the Queen's proces provided by mun-at-arms, Knight of the darted High Admiral of England, the Earl parts and squire, julges and bishops the foreign Ambasadors, and, ・of Canterbury and

and

Hnd, the

Marshoreli bisbons Pag Royal-box. As they took their lain men the Royal

and Prinema Arthur ocen

pied the scatarcinemased hands played the National Anthem, and the vast sulienes rose to its feet and Joined in the rendering.

thusiastic cheers of her subjects. Quera

in her

Royal chariot, amid the en- Elizabeth herself, attended by her mastis of

before ten pas, the Prime Minister and way honour, the ladies of her Court on harseback, MacDonald at the Princess's Her

Misher Yeomen of the Guard, and her stalwart

part of the Que

taken by

sents on either side of | Irene Curzon.

spectacle, together with 300 drumuner, the great Sir Francis

request, took

Queen www their Royal Highness. With the Prime Minister

were the Bight lion. J. H. Thomas, fine replies of old St Paul's, and the Queen The

"charion draw up before a the Right Hon. J. IL Clynes nut Mrs. Clynes, gives thanks for victory. A mighty shout Sidney Lord and Lady Olivier, and the Right Hion of joy and welcome is now heard, followed

Webb and Mira Welib.

nf the

by a silence, and the distant beat and roll magnitude of this attraction of th

British Empire take up the ery

of a solitary drum. One by one the crowd may be gathered from . fend, preceded by his

"Drake! Drake Drake! Particular Fifteen thousand

Indian inke part

art in the

performers,

Francis pasecul horses, numerous other animals, indading the Queen's feet the capturis Spanish the cheering crowd, and lays at lephants, camels, bars, and lonkers, and 1.000 doves In there is action to the performedaris. Cannon are firol, bella clash, and the crowd breaks into the chant, trimentalista

thers aght" "The in- "Let God arise, let. His enemies ba Ten canvas have been prepared and painted for

square yards of scattered" A great scene, this, which stirs scenery, importe from Canada. A splendour and significance.

for one serne 27,000 sheaves of the heart and the imagination by the artificial lake has been constructed in the Stadiom which holds 237,000 gallons of water: a full-sized cathedral front has been

Bod

the largest carpet ever

corn have

built built

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A MEMORABLE EVENIN

Hereafter follow episodes of rare interest

a picturesqueness in the history of South Africa No less fascinating are the scenes factured forms a stage for the performere devoted to India with which this part of

is really three pageants in que, the pageant closes." The pageant of Empire of the three is a bigger and better spectacle than anything previously produced, Letter device could have been employed to

ing th

and

any one

No

More than £100,000 ns been allotted by the Government to make the pageant worthy of ita subject. For months past ingrant masters, scene painters, costume maker choirmasters, and choirs have fren prepar

geant, under the direction of Africh the lesson of the Exhibition, and to Frank Lascelles, the chief pageant sister, spectators what is the soul, the inner nature impress indelibly on the minds of the There will be thirty-six performances between of that Empire whose material wealth is so now and the and of August, divided into

parts cach Seph

impressively arrayed! at Wembley. four o'clock and six p.m., but cleared off be

Rain feli

earlier in the evening between fore the pageant was to legin at eight. Unfortunately, the downpour recommenced just after the opening of the pageant. In code, and everyone present would agree of this the inspiring prologue pro- that the performers refused to be daunted by adverse weather conditions. Never be fore has inclement and unkindly weather

Mr. Endyard Kipling, whose "Recession

will be played throughout the pageant, Mr. Alfred Noyes, Sir Edward Elgar, O.M., Mr. Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Sir Charles Oman, M.P., and Mr. F. V. Lucas are among those who have contributed their literary, musical and artistic genius towards ensuring the success of this great undertaking, which is the result of the efforts of innumerable enthusiastic workers.

over an Empire so vast and peculiar," said As the vast arena filled with its gay ind No Car or Charlemagne ever presided been so completely defeated and eclipser as it was the evening in the great Stadium. the Earl of Beaconsfieri, in a famous speechkaleidoscopic crowd of men and women in the flouse of Cominons Its Bag floats

on 10any waters; it has provinces in every in costumes of every hue, with knights zones; they are inhabited by different rices, and ladies on horseback-the Elizabethan with different religions, different kw mense audience broke into round after opening of Eastward Ho "the im-

manners, and customs."

Herein lay the

supreme difficulty of the round of enthusiastic applause. makers of the Fagrant of Empire. Where were before in the memory of a playgoer of Never they to begin? Of the wealth of great and twenty-five years has a spectacle aroused stirring scenes and marked the which

ad episodes that have such tumultuous and spontaneous cheer- ich could they choose and which omi, inseemed to inspire the performers and it origin, and growth of Empire, ing. The great gathering of spectators

to add-a living frieze to

VIDE

and

that self to become inspired by them. In short, Justerial microcosm of in spite of the dull grey evening, it was

e that is the great Exhibition! Sir the unanimous verdict of those present Oman, ME, the historiographer of that the Pageant of Empire started with

and his colleagues,

the pageant,

historians

mise,'

of the tion of events the nature and consequences

have made a careful selec; a performance of the most brilliant pro of.

which milestones of I

have made them, as it were, the At 0.15 p.m. electricity and search- of Imperial

rial progress. "Inallegory, lights filled the arena with a wonderful saya Sir Charles in one of his brief historical flood of light, and, in this artificial but notes,

now we see many of the pioneers who most effective sunlight, which was greet- Bailed, the distant seas under the flag of ed with further outbursts of applause, England, Here, led by Saint George of the final scenes of the Pageant were exact England, they come and with

ples of the lands they found; Sir Waltered. The music, specially arranged by Sir Edward Elgar, and rendered by the choir ir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Francis Drake, Livingstone, Speze and Grant Rhodes, Ross,

inentalists, was undoubtedly one of the Bentt, and Shackleton. What an assembly, outstanding features of a memorable what tell of Honoar! Then in

evening.. procession, following, the 'kpirit of England, they pass on and out of our ken."

Sir

Haleigh probisher, Roc, Hudson, Rod of 300 voices, accompanied by i00 instru-

TERER PAGEANTA IN ONE.

But oven a survey limited to the primary causes that led to the foundation and development of Empire, and the heroic pioneers who brought about and sustained

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congratulations are due to Sir Charles on the selection and interpretation of the coadjutors Quand his abis. historical events that form the basis of the pageant, no less

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Part II, "Eastward Ho," was the produc. tion of the night, and no better introduction to the pageant could be imagined than the prologue, which shows us Queen Elizabeth's

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