Show GREAT GREATEN WEN EN AIR MR DRAMA Roman Days in Britain Vividly by St Albans Pageant TAKE PART I Act ct On Ol 0 Arrival on Identical CU Two Thousand Years Ago Aga AgaThe The hullo lc of trumpets floated coated from tram three In a u wide wille and silent mw men ml dow f kite rites James Jones ODonnell Bennett lle desert crI fig u tits tile historic hl at ot St SI Albans Herts England In III the alto Chicago H 1 A bit of Raman wall WIt that thU th Tenth Lesion Legion built 20 centuries e ago shone white w amt ami gray gruy in the tho sun in inand and of ot afternoon Fur across the medose me a n copper beech bent softy FOrti 1 before r the tita o breeze like ilk e tl II signal that vs IS JS low DOI the beech tree vistas of ul oak and elm elmIn elmIn In III and nut out anong the he of fo foH H ling BC lashed clad In ton son and sometimes little troops of moved rapidly down tho Isles pressing their h hel l heads head close against tho the neck of or oft their hell I ear horse as liS they the passed bc be b tine the then heil hed d hillocks that thaI oneIl dill did the thu mead nv Flecks of ot of cloud muted 1 dreamily neross the blue sky sIt sItTI Tle TI solemn ol lUn ower of ot nn an an un cent abbey by h m aril aid and learning learn In and pious looked down nom a uon u on tho the silent t vale ale Tho ling flag at of r Eng Ens n hind lind waved from a n mast that ro ic e barn the hI tower and throw n it 1 splash of ot OIl the blue of the sky THE PLAYERS PLAY ItS An Again the trumpets sang lIang and ami Lent attentively forward In hit the tiers leIs of et seats Senty Unit hut overlooked the mea inea I and the vistas of ot woodland Drums and vl ls throbbed softly S CU Strains of fit Invocation and all I of war nur crept lute Into the prelude now hissing sharp and clear lr II ladling pap Into a It sweet pastoral re 10 I in It which only nuts the breathing of lutes w na hearth The rhe distant slopes sn honed ll with Britons i nn mn whose si tawny lawny locks streamed over their shoulders as us they the ran rail women un tun wild splendid broad bands of sil silver er encircling their bare Litre arils arms skins skies ot if f beasts their raiment heavy clasps and bosses basses of beaten metal their Children halt half naked ranat ran qt at Q t their thel I side Id THU rul STORY THEY Y TOLD TOI The throng paused JIT n tile nw edge edRo of the meadow 1 l Itself Itt beneath thin tha t trees It cs A 1 I lie me of ot I h mean meanwhile while was moving slowly Into Inlo tho the na turn trawl amphitheater e the tho tiers of Q treats seats It was suns tho the choir The rhe singers i tt ore Orl long Ions g robes robe some somo of at red home some of r I blue The Tho aims arms of ot St Albans were em cm embroidered broidered upon the full length of or end garment Cowls covered their heads They moved mUIed across the tho green treen In fn long slow lov array alT then pipit burst Into their song of or and of promise I ladies indies fair tall and merry melT gentlemen j e pray you of ot your rou courtesy attend They would have tho people glee gho heed j to tt a II story of toman Homan conquest and Druid mysteries mind and jot or cf and rind death of ef I the good goud Queen Quean 1 funeral of QC j the revolt of the till bravo brave peasants of ot St StIn 5 In lu Wat Tylers time of a a Il ba baI batie bat I tie Ile In the tho long Ion struggle between thi tha houses of ot York lurk and Lancaster and i finally of ot the Hie visit I lt of Queen less B sll mind nn j her lieI court to their thole beloved pity city which emperors maid and kings have showered with writs honors theo the o 2000 2 yens years The song ong ended the people leople began elan to un uni unroll roll loll the scroll croll of their honorable lory tor The greet great choir settled Itself nt at the feet foot of thin thu spectators Tho horde to the outer edge dle of the meadow the tho children with their rings do K tho thu mon men with their hunting Mrs ar nd mud Implements of or war nr Arch druid Druids bards and at attendants attendants attendants moved mitred from min beneath the thc dis die tant inks cross the tho outly lag ing III fields nehls arid hymns of at won woe and sacrifice e entered the tho They fhe C T Invoked the tho vengeance of nt the tha gods godson g gon on of the thc Unman Roman power Intoning thesis these words May Wray lira the heavens holens darkly lower blast their serried ranks Bursting rivers break their banks them In death dealt P Sacred form of ancient oak We c thy mighty power Invoke Invoke Inoke Mistletoe 1 11 s thy th mystic s tic mild Firmly on cu our side sille arrayed Need we fear flor the tyrants trants power Iwer Or neath frowns of Romans cower A MESSENGER APPEARS A Pt Suddenly a messenger me came running down the fold field He fie wan wall clad In skins He Hc appeared with time the swiftness of light He seemed to have hate dropped from the sun and before the limo priests of ot the thc sun SUI ho he h hurled himself Ho He forth Q a talo tali of ot defeat dora and High flight und the tho rout rOlt of army by b the nf ot Caesar Th The limit on prince was Willi drawing near and he proposed to tl make u a 1 last Iasi staid at n t Veru at nt the very er spot SPlit in It tine line where the of Monday the of or Sep Sell September September In the till year OS 05 B U G C was wan now no being enacted by b gentry of ot Hertford shire and the people of ot Ht Albans Albano FIRST I EVENT In that t a t lay the tho wonder and Ind tho the fasci fascination to nation of or the St it Albans pageant Till The first event ent In the recorded history of England Engllind wan 1 s its commemorated n In song lion eon and procession and tableau on the lire spot where that happened on an an au nu autumn afternoon 1362 years eare ago ngo Not Nol ono one episode I In tho flight eight lt that 1 tt up p the program had hod cone comp to puss pass beyond beI halting hailing distance of at the pageant ground The city of that the Ro Ito Romans Itoe mans founded fOil t 11 1111 and nna which wl n h Nero e o made one of ot the mho two tr t a f r r or fir fro fre cities of ot Britain wherein every e every er dweller might say I am ate a it 0 Roman oman citizen once oneo covered this meadow Not only WAS w the site of the pageant Identical with the thc scene of ot the events It pictured but Ut many of or th j actors In ih the tho and Elizabethan Eliza Ellza Elizabethan bethan b t episodes were descendants of ut men mon and women who had been participants pants in the actual events One of tha women with a II minor miner roll role could trace t her tier descent back to Good Duke Duko Humphrey Humphre Who In the tho fifteenth century founded the divinity school of or Oxford i Others still bear benl the tho name n me of Gape which figures honorably In Inthe the tho long annals of ot St Album Albans and many a man who bore bolo lance and shield across the tho smiling meadows was wall but traversing ground 1 that pome noine ancestor tor of his iii had trod In Identical array butIn but butIn butIn In a n very crr different mood centuries before be before fore MAIDEN MAIDE FOR lOR SACRIFICE Terrified by b the news of Caesars ad nd advance vance ranee l nee and arid the route of the Druid priests seek from the maid maidens ens ans looking at their rites one onn to tn be sac sacrificed sacrificed to the angry onry gods They select the fairest Her lieI father and her lover loer plead for her life tift In vain It was one of the very great groat reat moments of the pa pageant pageant geant when she Rhe sank to her h r knees rand and breathed a 0 prayer that one o r day dllY her lover might Join john her herc beyond this the rug rugged ged gerl erl gates of death No o sound broke tho the stillness I of ot the acme save live tho tha ho sweet walling wall hI of tho the girl who knelt alone allne In the tho circle l the priests had mil made mado When ben her voice 0 Ire died lei away there therO was wall an nn Instant of profound 1 hush among amon the spectators Pad nd actors BIRD DmD SAVES SATES GIRL Then came Caine an exquisite one of those unexpected touches of beauty that sometimes give gl to great ceremonials a 1 veritable note of cc ce stacy A passing bird briefly over oer the heid of the kneeling girl pour poured poured ed HI tort forth Its It I clear sweet song and thep thap I wan seen MeOn no more marl The rime advance of tho the Briton forces stayed the Im Impending Impending Impending pending sacrifice The Th brave mid and hu rained up ul before this the th ts freed victim and de do theer barbarous rites rills I 1 would would there were Vero revealed God GodA A God of pf pity and enduring love low loveA lowA A God of t and of ot gentleness I 1 faint fain would worship Hm were Jle Ile but known FORCES CES ARRIVE Thus was sounded the tho opening DroninG note noto In ID that t strain ot of o aspiration u a which was seas to thunder In ht solemn dia dla diapason diapason pason through s St Swiftly tho lie night of ot Rome i rolled oiled over oer the green grcen plain pl in the tho helmets gleaming In tho the silo nun the earth with tho taw trend treat of the tho log leg IQ of lIr The polio minlo nil 1111 um honorable ponce pence A BO so o order and nil ancient anel superstition alike retired front from the of ot Ho Ito Homan titan man culture i chief u of null ami Druid priest pried were to In look honk Into Inlo the tha th eyes eI of term 4 Unil their man inns S 1 Tho The man tugged lugged at nt the tho rope bridle bridles o of 1 their locking bucking lowly before the tha mon coon who horo fre standards of nf tho senate and people of ot Rome Roma Tokens nf of were uti amulet and anda a 1 cameo ring tha kingdom kit un of or orrock rocky rock fastness nod and dark forest forelli he b In II h that lh th the outpost of the thu dominions or of Homo From l life tho spot whom thin the mimic Caesar of fit thin the sat motionless upon hl hOI o victorious l r haul md direct oil ud Ills ill gaze over hunt were to In ho he the seat lent of an nn empire that should 1111 ling UN hit bait battle linn Ilan far farther timer ther thou than th the farthest of nf hl his hili mI IH its the Iah lean i au brake AIM 1111 dissolve III R In hi n the after the tho slaps mid amid rut lI ling into H down tho long 1011 If of lr mean no 1111 i o nn In lIt wilur had hlll paged rivet and In wua Willi ns us n it lain talo that Hint IN la told by I rips the Ihu first nr t dl BRIEF The Th walling n or of f woman u ushered In the tho hind lind risen unit und under P was tuns to tl u und aril II ter terrible upon and th then n lo to par PO II 1 A hundred n mind It had passed ru o with the tho pa Pili pas pastine tine n of Df a summer r cloud d TIe The war nf ot Ill descended upon uron Several thousands are uro ar put to t lima tha of if Apollo pollo und Ire Are tram front the oily Tho progress of lit lima mon U Ie I slaw III III in while an they I em I rl not t living hiving men but of ot mart liar Io o moved by b Invisible hands h nd across tim till sward The vestals vestal cI I precede them than chiming ohl tho the doom of When taw tho cry Js is It the tho heart that breaks The moaning Of who mile dlo i Is In I gone and lies lIell tho the tomb Of or I NT I An Indescribable Inde effect was wan obtained by hy II repetition of tho the waiting wailing cry en throughout the evacuation of the city ell Farther J and farther tho the vestals re 10 receded ceded until they the wore were lost to view but the tho note noto of sorrow Borrow first uttered in a 0 single superb contralto of or vol volume volI volume I ume and then sustained su by b other voices was ever reiterated The Tho onslaught of or was 1111 mag magnificent ma There Ther was wan a 1 rush of tinny ninny I n feet n a 1 roar and rum ble of or chariot J I wheels and the tho great queen driving i three horses and with her two hers tirs standing stanlIn one at each ench side tilde charI charged ed rd i down an nu incline and drew row up III be bc before fore tro the applauding people TUB QUEENS PROPHECY They Tho said aid that t tho the best hest horsewoman In was Impersonating tho mho queen 0 am and ono oni on I could 1 well wall It IL She Sho throw throw tho tiro reins rein far tal from her hor leap leaped ed elt to the tho ground anti and frantically rallied l lher her soldiers whoso Whose hour of or victory Ictor was ending in rout before tho the advance ot of The Tho emo erno prowess wits was IS equal to her hor horse horsemanship manship In III tones that carried to tho the most distant seat s M she appealed to her hertl troops tl defied Rome Home Ito m t and foretold fora told the day lay when hen Tho The progeny that springs from thin forests forest I of at our land Armed Arnt with s s Ith thunder clad c with w I Ih wings vIng s n shall a 1 n wider wilier world worl wo l command Regions al II never noer knew Im my pos pOlO posterity shall hn II sway Where his eagles never ner now flow 1111 note none In us they the QUEENS TRAGIC DEATH Dl ATH Her bare firms girdled l with gold Strands of or gold were Interwoven with Il l her red braids 1 Her lIel horses gorses too toe oo the ground n m ther feet and flecked hot hit crimson robes robe with foam She Sho was ft h regal figure of ot woe woo woe and aul wrath Tho The wailing walling of the Roman Homan women omen changed to a n song gong of ot triumph as ns the tho clanking legions 11 of or rushed down lon from the tho wooded wondel NO slopes n l Tho The queen n pressed a Il vial of or to her Up tips plunged 1 It I ell a 1 dagger Into her hour bosom then 1 sank up tip upon tipon 11 on the tho grass H and time the last of nf the tho heroines oC or Britain lay 18 In n 1 heap of or gold and on cloth on 1111 tho thin ground Her lice exit It front from mho tha Held tlell was 18 managed 1 with a 1 touch OC pt genius gonhis T o Roman H II soldiers lifted l the tho body feet j et fore foremost most Into hue tho the chariot t then thon stand standing standIng ing III at the tho back of nf the tho cat car supported It upon ullon their Interlocked arms while tho the war wal horses ham boro them and thou burden rued and tho the dead womans daugh daughters awns away awn A GRAND FINALE 1 L The queen lay In rigid Auld upon II on their arms Item hOI faco face upturned her Ita braids of at roil red relland and gold dragging upon the ground For Far 1 01 titter after of the tho slow show grog progress ress reO down tho thin meadow the tho unseeing ull eyes eos gazed into tho the sUn the thu queens queen H head heM lolling horribly upon the tho arms of tho soldiers The Tho pong kung JIll or of victory victOr rose roRO higher Chorus Ch orchestra and aud sol ol tiers took up lip tho thin strain The rho legions held heM In wide array and aud tho the music or of march malch of or triumph rolled roiled upward from thin the smiling stalling to tho the heights Tho The rumble of tho the chariot wheels was wan stilled HilliN and tha Ilia WIll war horses stood like statues s su u |