EPILOGUE
Addressed to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson:
Lady, WHEREAS your gentle patronage
And presence have to-night so favored us
In this our ritual, that you have thus
Lent to our earnest cause a double gage:
One gracious daughter to make glad our stage
And one to make its theme harmonious
With song—whose sire now makes illustrious
The larger theatre of our living age:
Therefore, ere yet the privilege be spent
Which grants our thoughts the spell of human words,
We vow by you, here in this tranquil wood,
Our loyal love to him—the President,
Whose heart has heard the call of the wild birds,
And sign ourselves
Your Servants, with gratitude.
Having thus presented the scroll, the Cardinal Bird with his Acolytes retired to the stage, where the final dance and procession of the bird-participants then took place.
The Programme of the performance [omitting that part of the Prelude already printed on pages xix and xx] was as follows:
UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF
MRS. WOODROW WILSON
AND THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE
MRS. HERBERT ADAMS
MRS. C. C. BEAMAN
ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES
KENYON COX
PERCY MACKAYE
MAXFIELD PARRISH
CHARLES A. PLATT
MRS. GEORGE RUBLEE
LOUIS EVAN SHIPMAN
JOSEPH LINDON SMITH
MRS. AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS
MEMBERS OF THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB JOIN WITH RESIDENTS OF CORNISH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND THEIR FRIENDS, TO PRESENT A MASQUE IN THE INTEREST OF AMERICAN WILD BIRD PROTECTION
PRELUDE
SONG “THE HERMIT THRUSH”
SUNG BY MISS MARGARET WILSON
THE SONG COMPOSED BY FREDERICK S. CONVERSE TO WORDS BY ARVIA MACKAYE, WHO ENACTS THE PART OF THE LITTLE GIRL
MERIDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE:
SEPTEMBER 12, 1913
SANCTUARY
A BIRD MASQUE
BY PERCY MACKAYE
PERFORMED UNDER THE FOLLOWING DIRECTION
STAGE PRODUCTION BY JOSEPH LINDON SMITH
DANCING BY JULIET BARRETT RUBLEE
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY FREDERICK S. CONVERSE
PROPERTIES BY WILLIAM HOWARD HART
PROGRAMME DESIGN BY KENYON COX
PERSONS IN THE MASQUE
IN THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE
| QUERCUS | FAUN | JOSEPH LINDON SMITH |
| ALWYN | POET | PERCY MACKAYE |
| SHY | NATURALIST | ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES |
| TACITA | DRYAD | JULIET BARRETT RUBLEE |
| ORNIS | BIRD SPIRIT | ELEANOR WILSON |
| STARK | PLUME HUNTER | WITTER BYNNER |
| ATTENDANT | LEONARD COX |
EPILOGUE
| THE CARDINAL BIRD | HERBERT ADAMS |
| FIRST ACOLYTE | ROBIN MACKAYE |
| SECOND ACOLYTE | PAUL SAINT-GAUDENS |
BIRD PARTICIPANTS IN PANTOMIME
| BLUEBIRD | MRS. HERBERT ADAMS |
| CARDINAL GROSBEAK | MR. HERBERT ADAMS |
| OWL | MISS CHARLOTTE ARNOLD |
| BALTIMORE ORIOLE | MISS FRANCES ARNOLD |
| OWL | MISS GRACE ARNOLD |
| RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD | MR. LEROY BARNETT |
| GOLDFINCH | MISS BIGELOW |
| DOWNY WOODPECKER | MRS. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES |
| DOWNY WOODPECKER | MRS. EDSON BEMIS |
| DOWNY WOODPECKER | MR. EDSON BEMIS |
| GOLDFINCH | MR. JOHN FARNUM CANN |
| BLUE JAY | MISS LOUISE CONVERSE |
| BLUE JAY | MISS VIRGINIA CONVERSE |
| KINGBIRD | MRS. KENYON COX |
| CROW | MR. KENYON COX |
| FLICKER | MISS CAROLINE COX |
| SCARLET TANAGER | MR. ALLYN COX |
| BLUEBIRD | MISS ANNIE H. DUNCAN |
| HOUSE WREN | MISS ELIZABETH EVARTS |
| RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET | MR. PRESCOTT EVARTS |
| OWL | MR. ELWIN FEY |
| SCARLET TANAGER | MR. CHARLES FULLER |
| GOLDFINCH | MRS. CONGER GOODYEAR |
| RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET | MISS LENA HARDY |
| WOOD THRUSH | MISS RUTH HALL |
| EVENING GROSBEAK | MR. WILLIAM HOWARD HART |
| HAWK | MR. GRISWOLD HAYWOOD |
| KINGBIRD | MISS KING |
| KINGBIRD | MISS CLARA KING |
| BLUEBIRD | MRS. HERBERT LAKIN |
| YELLOW WARBLER | MISS ELEANOR LAKIN |
| YELLOW WARBLER | MISS HETTY LAKIN |
| BLUEBIRD | MISS BELLE LAVERACK |
| SNOW BUNTING | MRS. PERCY MACKAYE |
| SWALLOW | MISS HAZEL MACKAYE |
| HUMMINGBIRD | MISS ARVIA MACKAYE |
| SCARLET TANAGER | MASTER ROBIN MACKAYE |
| GOLDFINCH | MISS ALICE MCCLARY |
| BLUEBIRD | MISS ANNE PARRISH |
| CARDINAL BIRD | MR. STEPHEN PARRISH |
| RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD | MISS MARIE PARKER |
| HERMIT THRUSH | MRS. MAXWELL PERKINS |
| GOLDFINCH | MR. ROGER PLATT |
| SCARLET TANAGER | MR. WILLIAM PLATT |
| RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD | MISS EDNA RAPALLO |
| GOLDFINCH | MISS HADLEY RICHARDSON |
| BLUE HERON | MR. GEORGE RUBLEE |
| LOVE BIRD | MRS. LOUIS SAINT-GAUDENS |
| SCARLET TANAGER | MR. PAUL SAINT-GAUDENS |
| WOOD THRUSH | MISS SCUDDER |
| BLUEBIRD | MISS ELLEN SHIPMAN |
| INDIGO BUNTING | MASTER EVAN SHIPMAN |
| WOODPECKER | MISS FRANCES SMITH |
| WOODPECKER | MISS REBECCA SMITH |
| BALTIMORE ORIOLE | MISS CORDELIA TOWNSEND |
OFFICERS OF THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB
PRESIDENT, DR. ERNEST L. HUSE
VICE PRESIDENTS
MRS. E. E. WHEELER
MR. NEIL CRONIN
PROF. FRANK M. HOWE
PROF. CHESTER H. SEARS
SECRETARY, MR. JOHN FARNUM CANN
TREASURER, MR. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES
GENERAL MANAGER, MISS MARY L. CHELLIS
MASQUE COMMITTEE FOR THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB
MR. ROBERT BARRETT
MRS. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES
MR. JOHN FARNUM CANN
MISS ANNIE H. DUNCAN
MISS MARY A. FREEMAN
MR. ALBION E. LANG
MR. CHARLES ALDEN TRACY
MRS. E. E. WHEELER
COSTUMES
MRS. HERBERT ADAMS
MISS ELLEN SHIPMAN
MR. JOSEPH LINDON SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHS, DR. ARNOLD GENTHE
BIRD-NOTES, MISS KATHERINE MINAHAN
INVITATIONS, MISS ANNIE H. DUNCAN
AUTOMOBILES, MR. GRISWOLD HAYWOOD
STAGING AND SEATS
MR. WILLIAM HOWARD HART
MR. JOHN FARNUM CANN
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