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...production of "Caliban" at the Stadium the latter part of the month for the benefit of the Red Cross and the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps is an event of more than passing moment. In point of fact, and entirely aside from the objects, it will be one of the most magnificient outdoor dramatic productions ever seen in this section of the country...
...first place it is a type of production that is wholly new in form, although it includes much in the way of pageantry, dancing groups, and choruses with which the public has become more or less familiar in recent years. Percy MacKaye '97, the author of "Caliban," calls is a "masque," and it probably conforms more nearly in structure to the masque of Shakespere's day, which were produced by the great Elizabethan dramatists for special court occasions than anything that has been done since that time...
...order to raise money for the American Red Cross, and secondarily for the University Reserve Officers Training Corps, a mammoth production of the masque "Caliban, By the Yellow Sands," written by Percy MacKaye '97, is to be given in the Stadium from June 28 to July 9, on every evening except Sunday. Over 5,000 men, women, and children, drawn from all parts of Greater Boston, will participate in the performances...
...Masque of Caliban is centered around the "Caliban" of Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest," who is made the symbol of struggling humanity, saved at last through the transforming power of the good and beautiful. The "Yellow Sands" in the masque represent the world of man's effort and aspiration...
...first scene Caliban is revealed as a primitive, groping being, half playful, half savage. Prospero, the magician, undertakes to educate him by showing him the civilizing power of art, especially the great democratic and cooperative art of the drama...