| Show PI PAGEANT C CIs KING IS N Louis N Parker is Directly Re Responsible Responsible Responsible for Extraordinary Vogue in Staid England PRIMARILY A BOSTON MAN MANN ul of S klc Ilary St ht J lair Hun Tory TInT liu Ile i O July 3 vIrIl page pageants pageants ants have become no xo In III LONDON L le England g that though the first drat of oC them n n held only two years ago al no eo Iss 18 thou than a II dozen do en cn are url given n In III as al many d towns lawns ui 01 u John null Hulls tight little Isis Next Neat i tier Ihen will bt bl twice asIns as asin in Ins ny I i HI torn years hl elapsed d dit It IH Is likely that every ecI town lon In I tig ii luid t with any all claim to 10 hl dJ II lime held luM Hi 1111 scenes In Iu UN Ill un uni i r The rhe met erect reI of oC the popularity of r this furor of or nt Is not lint far till to 10 seek rek Tin y afford realistic glimpses of the past suit in cli IK us II fin call he bu In no nn other way a ny present Im logons lessons In history hi In the Iho must most III os I ItI form firm h y civic pride mid and local Jo r Into Inlo the Iho manners mid nud customs c li old tunes times They are far more morr brier c cuing ting than Ihan ordinary exhibitions vi with lith their monotonous repetitions of most of o us its have lulo seen Nees before No Nn N spectators wax ix morn more them th than limn American visitors storM Maik lalk Twain r lIa ain for or example declared 1 vh when ho hc landed In this country t tb 1 Iy b that one of the tho things ho Iw most w hunted to 10 Nee FCC ce was the Oxford AND VIIi NOT Ol OlAnd And Anil that suggests i HIP Ih query Why V iy iyall all Uld not nOl have hae Us It historic r giants too ton History thell loos dols not noti nots i so s far CIU hack aw as hero here by b a n lung long tray wiy wa li bum bIt what there Is of or It II Is extremely que and by h no means u making 11 n I thrilling sienes s were There me ar no on armor n rt 1 ct i In It bit roil red redIUS d IUS lu to their war wal paint faint from n tai ti ular view would be as lIS Jh early the tights the colonial wars wares the revolution the tho their ir ar of not to 10 carry II It l OilY nay fur ur thor affords materiel material for tOI vivid Id tub tab Ic h CUX iu of ot fascinating Interest that would an nn epitome of progress and dc de development will welt worth seeing The man mall who knows knowlI more about his tork Iwic pageants than any other man mun In Inthe the Ille ho world is Louis on Darker Barker wIll well to famo ns os a l dramatic au DU thor thoI before ho he entered fresh tresh fields of or r Inon tn It H was ns s he hc who Introduced tho thu historic hIsto rte pageant to England n d at lit two years y urs ego ngo Ho lie has hns now IlIne pageants on hand band and might If IC he lu chose keep cep busy nt at them for Cor the tho Ihor rest r sl of oC his hili days dos He lie has hal been dubbed the tile Pageant King NIng I I nS and he Is marching on VII from victory to victory Ictor with Oar Oa strides Truly Trul he Is iss a won man Ho He digs out history from fromn burrows and barrows and anel castle moats and shrines and sarcophagi and clothes clothe the Uio dead body bod or of It with color and glory mind gold gohll Ills His pageants pay vay hand hald handsomely AUTHOR OP OF Parker Juker who WIO Is best list in lu tho the t States n nil as time tho coauthor of ot was born In Prance France edu d In III Germany and has hns done dono his work In England Ills mother was Eng lish but bUI Ills hits father was an American and anel his grand a chief Justice of ot Massachusetts So ho says ho ha Is a little bit hll or of all nil Influences but bill emily nilly n a Boston man Obviously he ho Is the th best man to consult about abort the tho prospects for tor successful pageants In America My Iy knowledge of or American history hI he said sahl when I had pro pounded my m query to him Is lIm limited hut but I 1 should say Imy that towns In Amer ica Jc with histories suited to jion lion tion In tho the form forum of ot Pageants are aro rare Nil Hili there hero are uro n a fuw tew of thorn them that would lend themselves to such h a I pur pose admirably Plymouth ehI for tor instance could mould bo be an Ideal place mica for tor s such a a show I could Imagine none bettor In America According to my Ideas Ideus I speaking offhand an in historic hl lorl pageant thero should ho he worked out something like this Tho tableau to should depict a n scone In ht the tho English I town ton from whence wll lIco It II takes Its lis name tableaux should represent tho landing holding of ot thu pilgrim fathers tho the early lIrly trials of time the settlers and their struggles with Ith tho the Indians tho the split spilt w kith tho time mother land and ano so on through the Ih Independent history ot of tho time coun try tr IY TOWN TORN f Is town torn hut affords abundant material for un historic pageant time tho witch In lu Ini lut i t Merit especially behig well toll adapted to in dramatic Boston Is another city that tins hUll tho tun history but hut line lino city ell though It Is In from what elicit I 1 have seen of ot It II I T should wy say M Its III people are aro too busy hUll to bother hother abut about Pageants Tho The Slime same Is In true trio of ot Now hew ork HH Its population Is too ton cosmo too ton much in t trade ratio and to 10 enter with Iota I I Iho ho he preparation of nn an historic There aro are many People there ther v l Ito o know knot nothing anti ond sire earn nothing aIlt ra tt tho the history of ot tho lima city Illy fie chI lu Iii whoso whose history K M back tar rill enough to 10 afford gout good material fop or tho he presentation of ot page arms flU In them them ore lire by II no liD means co sa 1 11 limited nH i w Mr Parker appears to think Any Auy hod tamilla with American history easily lIy specify n a 1 dozen or snore more that would You well wall answer the purpose Iut lut mi nn historic hl pageant Is trot not a I matter t to lio be That Anter who mummy may bo he to take the thu matter iii up 1111 get Jol lime Homo Inkling of fit how hour 1 t set ot et In work I asked Sir 11 Parker to 10 tomo mo ono Ills hili Idea lIen of nt what u it 1 ho bo like Ilko mind and how mow It should bo ho horob rob ho ha said It u Is IH u ii 1 very WI Hod ami lI of or c r the tho his hits history tory lory nf ot ilio Iho town In which It hikes place from front its Itu origin down l to In some lute tint jut too on 00 This rilia hlll Is IH Net I fort Ii In time tho le nf ot a 1 drama Into scenes OIlI each cae I of ot With a I Pile event or nr period anil It Is a C complete little lIMIo play pia In tided by It Its own who slime share III If the M W Continued tl oi on 01 page jingo eighteen c r PAGEANT K W WIs IS Continued front from page pogo Seventeen Is limited to their own scotia scene It Jt Is and adorned d by every overy device which tho can cnn think of or such as battles choruses cs dances processions not Iol processions fro for their own sakes J but hut such as li occur naturally in time the course of ot the th drama It Is expressed in tm such forms of dialogue as I are most suitable Lo to th event represented In prose In blank vei verse e lu hum rhyme or in It Is bound together und and brought Into unity by the narrative 1 chorus n choir or ot male voIces whoso function itin to tel lell the limo audience what Is 18 about aboul to happen happell what Is happening arid what whal hits hils happened H CHEAT SETTINGS It is acted on a site Intimately con connected connected with the tho history oH o the time town Without elicit Kuch 11 II site Bite Itself kindling the th Imaginations both of ot the performers and the audIence with visions of tho the events which havo made mnnie It sacred ground I conceive the tho ity of ot a II pageant At t It took within tho the ruins of ot tho old castle ell tle built by the redoubtable Roger Roer of Caen abbot of or und and bishop of ut At It II took place In tim tho grounds of castle and amid our Queen Que n Elizabeth Poke tho the actual words on eu the tho I actual spot upon which the time original queen uttered them the III moore moru SOO oo ngo ago At St Ed Edmund T Edmounds d mounds mund wo we got gol even Into closer touch with the past For Tor there wo we 0 play within tho the of time the ruined monastery Our shrine of ot Saint TM Em flOod mund will stand within a 11 tow few yards yo of ot whores wh into Iho veritable shrine stood our Abbot will mon whore where his hi sturdy prototype must munt dally have havo broil been seen ellI our lur barons will uv its fill to to tn extort front from King John within ft It few Kw fret feet te of ot tho the spot on Ott which the tho Original barons met It would be ho haul tI to 10 1 any way near matching such Kites slIce In America where little attaches to 10 ii his tone und traditions but hut It would Pot not bo Ito a n matter nor not nora 11 Il coMly co II ono eon to In reconstruct In III n it tem temporary tom 1 fashion for fO purposes buildings have been destroyed 2000 Tho Thu work worl ot of selecting tho limo perform performers Nil ers cm for tor time the pageants continued Mr III i f Parker Is 18 a very ron ors considerable ono an may flay be ha judged from tho the tact fact that at nt at St Edmunds 2000 1000 take part partI 1 I each ench performer pert and anti al allotted lI tho the ZOO speakIng parts ThIs work alone occupied several months It Is essential In a that elicit each performer should bu be thoroughly well veli suited for tor his or her Iter part sO o for tal talan ns nil personal appearance goes gON It does dOllI not mutter matter so no much about allot their abil abilities as liS actors and actresses c The Tho greet reul thing was Villi to 10 get who looked l their parts allotted the parts tha th next thing Is III to churl rehearsals rehearsal Int ln a It 1 f CUll can only ns liS n a 1 gigantic It Is it ot of course performed In tho thu open air IIII over overn overa n a 1 considerable extent of ot con I that thai I in compared to an nn or ur ordinary singe Mage S A JJ During I f stand on op time the roof root of nt ti it In the pageant ground amid shout out my directions to 10 the 2 OIO performers I 1 tire ure n a mote melt il honl nt on otherwise c my voice would not be hI by II nil a I und amid I 1 luve of ot course cour c among the tho performers the as 01 of ut several able who i tally really help hell mo In the t Into I Ott working order murder orderA A pageant 4 l Is n it costly C undertaking und and Is II It a Blowing de Jr to in plO pin duce deco then on In n a more loon and expensive scale peale than I think Is In wine nt 01 necessary thousand thoun pounds will be bo spent In producing the tho Bur Rt St Edmunds which will take hake six It days to play and anil It will be b l on lit dif different ferent lines from uny 1111 other oilier pageant yet et produced Tho Thu hook book of ot tho the play iula took mo ma 12 months to complete GREAT According to my con continued continued Mr lr Parker a scheme I t havo have carried out nuit and shall smIl per slet In luring durin tho the three moro years year I propose pro paso to continue this work every cn and every ever property every very single timing thIns In short which l luied II used In the tho pageant is as IS fill far as an Is in humanly possible designed and aid all made by bv the tho townsfolk themselves In lit my mm opinion It 1 Is in not the actual pageant week however hoever successful which Is the chief chlof feature of ot this thin movement but bul rather time tho previous year or om 35 I 1 G months of or preparation I claim for tor my m pa pageants pageants pageants that they thoy have hn yo been hec tho Iho means of ot discovering nn an Immense amount of ot buried talent In the towns through which I have h ve passed parsed and of or utilizing that talent n mm a n remarkable manner At Bury St Edmunds nt lit the lw th pres present present ent emit moment considerably over mules Indies arc nt itt work completing the tho 1 1700 costumes which will viii he be used In Intha Inthe the tha forthcoming pageant Twenty or 01 30 iG young oun artists were vere nt at work many m ny months searching authorities for or the tho correct design of ot tho the dresses and end wak waking ing log working drawings of them The Tho making of ot tho the necessary cos con costumes for American pageants would be beu beit u it much simpler and less costly under undertaking Inking taking than making them for tor English pageants because the tho folk fa lit who have hare made American history wore were not given to on flu style stylo At the same samo time their costumes were by no means menns lacking In DIG BIG PROFITS Mr lIr Parkers description should In inspire spire some seine American to follow In If his footsteps and start pageants In Ameri America ca Tho The question of If making snaking money mono out of or them should not bo be the tho consideration but It Is worth that tha they pay The Tho Warwick pageant last year which cost coot to g lIt U up yielded a n of ot It Is estimated that time the 12 pageants pu which make up this years program r gram will cost O The Tho Bury St Ed Edmunds Edmunds Edmounds munds mounds pageant begins Its It six days day career shortly The Tho ancient town lo lii lono no so o chock full tull of ot history his lor that It t could provide far moro more episodes than the seven even treated by Mr Parker They The begin with a 11 voine representing the thc thevilla villa 1111 Faustini and ani tho the revolt of p l B oad Icea They The Tita continue through tho thi tory story t r rot of ot the martyrdom ot QC f King Edmund time tho tale of ot the tho great monastery and the negligent ent secular priests In whose whoso keeping tho th body boh of the sainted mon moo arch was was entrusted d Hero Here It Is 11 shown how hoy Canute comes to Bury Dur dispossesses ses see the time secular priests Introduces tho time monks and founds tho the monastery with ns DS first abbot Later Is in Interwoven Int time tile story of the tho Abbot Samson Sampon dealt with by In Past P t and Present After Atter tho the meeting of ot the barons at Bury whore where they swear to force King John td hi tl ratify the tho charter charier of Henry Hont I ermines comes the tho murder of Humphrey Duke Duko of or Gloucester Tho The last episode en on entitled titled The Time Dawn Daw Dawn n of ot a New Now Age brings tho tIme pageant up to li 50 It fl shows shown Mary Marl Tudor present nt nl St 51 Mat tv Fair Later hater It deals with tho time absolution the of the monks and the sale of ot tho the abbey abbe fo to also with the foundation of ot the tho first of ot King icing Kin Edward VI YI 30 grammar schools IN COURSE OF 01 PREPARATION In Th time Ilia beginning of ot August Au Liver 1101 Liverpool pool will celebrate tha th seven Reven hun bun hundredth anniversary of Its foundation with a n pageant TIme Tho town of or orRI Kt Rt Albans which suffers from un nn em om embarrassment of or riches In the tho matter of historic associations Is also making pi preparations operations to tu present tho the lIck of ot them In pageant form torm The Tho Th begin beginning ning of ot August will witness ti a lit nt Castle Isle Islo of ot Wight where Charles I was Imprisoned Soy Sov oral other minor pageants are nio In course oure of ot preparation Time The Oxford which ran from Juno 27 7 lo to July Jul 3 l achieved a n brilliant success and attracted thou sandR of lit visitors to tho thiC old town That of ot Romsey Ab Jib Abu bay u proceeded pr It watt was scarcely less ess notable triumph Tho Time grey groy ab aim abbey abbe hey bey be Itself tho the millenary I of whoso foundation was Willi thus Ihns commemorated Is IN s admittedly tho tim most mot perfect example of tit ti ml Norman building In time tho kingdom It t Is truo to 10 Its lis typo type ty a n sturdy bulldog of or u a building 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