Identifier: actorsnotebooks00arch (find matches)
Title: An actor's notebooks, being some memories, friendships, criticisms and experiences of Frank Archer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Archer, Frank
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Publisher: London : S. Paul & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d manager throughout. Other members of the Royal Institute figured in the tableaux. They were H. J. Stock, C. Earle, John Scott, W.Simpson, Edwin Hayes, C. E. Johnson, and Thomas Pyne. I have left out the ladies (a serious omission, I allow) as also gentlemen friends of the members who gave their help to make the pictures successful. It was in the character of Virgil, in a scarlet drapery and with a laurel wreath, that I as Chorus recited the lines before each picture was displayed. They were written by H. Savile Clarke. It is not quite easy to see what connexion there could have been between the Latin poet and these very British episodes. In the masque of 1885, the first tableau showed Dante, Beatrice, and Petrarch, and there was a certain appropriateness in it. The Court party was a brilliant one, and included : The Duke of Cambridge, The Duke and Duchess of Teck (the latter once so well known as The Princess Mary). Their daughter Victoria Mary (the present Queen), the Prince and Princess of Wales
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The Artists Ball 287 (the late King and Queen-Mother), their two daughters, the Princess Louise (Duchess of Fife and Princess Royal), and the Princess Victoria, the Crown Prince of Denmark (the present King), the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Princess Frederica of Hanover, Count Gleichen (the well-known sculptor), the Countess Feodora Gleichen and her sister, and the Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch of Russia. The doors opened at ten o'clock, and as the visitors arrived in their varied costumes, they were received by the President and the Council, while the band of the Royal Artillery, under the direction of Cavalier L. Zavertal, discoursed most eloquent music. At eleven o'clock the royal visitors came upon the scene; and after the Princess of Wales had been presented with a bouquet by the little daughter of the President, were duly conducted to their seats. This was followed by an overture and flourish of trumpets and drums, and I then appeared and recited the lines of the masque des

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