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...phrase "singing in full-throated ease." Mme. Gauthier possesses that limpidness and clear contour of tone necessary for the singer of the eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first group of songs was concerned, with the "Cradle Song" of William Byrd, a composer of Elizabethan England. The outstanding thing in her program, however, was her group of American songs. She sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece. It must have taken a great deal of courage for a singer with a reputation...
...Play is now given in an open-air Renaissance amphitheatre on a stage similar to the Elizabethan. It begins early on Sunday morning after the players have attended High Mass. It lasts eight hours. The first part (Act I to Act VII) carries the story of Christ's last week from His entry into Jerusalem to His vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed: "Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but Thine, be done." After an interval for lunch, the second part (Act VIII to Act XIV) continues...
These Miracle Plays were originally acted in the churches. They were all variations on Biblical themes. As time went on, however, the trade guilds took them over. With no change of subject, but a great deal of improvement in the form, the guild plays gradually, developed into pre-Elizabethan drama. Several groups of these plays have come down...
...Significance. A book in the great manner-subject and portrayal -in its finest passages challenging comparison with the best Elizabethan prose, and yet with an individual, mountainous strength of its own, characteristically craggy, occasionally monotonous, not easy reading-but once made one's own, a permanent enrichment to the mind. As for its truth, Colonel T. E. Lawrence* says in his preface: " It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert . . . here you have the desert . . . the true Arabia with its smells and dirt . . . its nobility and freedom...
...those who attend the ball will wear either Shakespearean or Elizabethan costumes. And those who take part in the processional march are eligible for a prize offered by the Frances Jewett Repertory Theatre Club for the most impressive group in the march,--especial attention being paid to the accuracy of the costumes representing the various characters...