Bridgewater State University - Alpha Yearbook (Bridgewater, MA)

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Volume XII NORMAL OFFERING Page 29 The Shakespeare Play, 1910. vi' HE annual Shakespeare play was presented in the Jdvlfv 5 hd X JMS lr , '77 s 53 f . xy Cm 'Qi jk Nxxsigllr iq: r 'Puig x - x -, 95. 3,1 l O N '-. QQQ-f Assembly Hall on Friday evening, January 28, 1910. The Merchant of Venice was a great success in every Way. The success Was due to the faithful and ever enthusiastic Work of the studentsg to Misses Ward and Anthony for their help in the dancing, and Miss Helen E. Fisher for her singing, and to the careful direction of Miss Anna W. Brown and Mr. Arnold C. Heath. The play had been in preparation for many months. Several scenes were presented before a group of judges who chose those most suited for the various parts to make up the final cast. The play Was given Without scenery or curtain. Members of the Senior Class acted as ushers. Over seven hundred students and friends formed an appreciative audience, who pronounced the evening a pleasant and successful one. The Call. Bear me aloft on thy soft White breast, Thou swift-flying cloud in the Heaven so high , And let me exult, by thy motion caressed , In the deepening beauty of this day's sky. Well do I love the peace of night, The stars' White flame and the river's dream-glance, But lifted in soul to the sun's far height, The truth-searching Day doth my being entrance! O call of the spirit, I hear , I heed , Tho' seemingly deaf to thy Wild sweet voice . From the starshine of dreams, Sunvvard , I lead My Wandering Will to the home of its choice! MAUD M. BROWNE, '01.

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Page 30 NORMAL OFFERING Volume XII Ye most excellent Historic of YE MERCHANT OF VENICE Written by William Shakespeare and diuers times acted by ye Lord Chamberlaine his Servants. N ovv to be acted by a Companie of rude Plaiers at ye N ormale Schole of Bridgewater in ye Assemblie Halle, Z8 of Ianuarie, MDCCCCX, during ye Evening. Also there will be much diuerting Musick plaied by ye Musicians of ye School. Ye ACTORS NAM ES Ye Duke ot Venice, ..... Alma de Mier Morochus, a Prince, and a Sutor to Portia, Helena M. Reggett Bassanio, an Italian Lord, Sutor also to Portia, . Jennie W. Seaver Anthonio, a Merchant of Venice, . . . Daisy S. Lyon Salarino, I Catherine E. McCormick Salanio, ?Gentlemen of Venice and Corn- Mollie C. Duffee Gratiano, . panions with Bassanio, M. Isabelle Gray Lorenso, j Marion S. Strange Shylock, ye rich Iew, and Father of Iessica, Elizabeth Jackson Tuball, a Iew, Shi1ock's Friend, . . Carrie L. Littlefield Portia, ye rich Italian Lady, . . . Ruth Kemp Nerrissa, her Wayting-Gentlevvoman, . Helen C. Dustan Iessica, Daughter to Shylock. . . Ellen Glennon Gobbo, an old man, father to Lancelot, . Elsie Barlow Lancelot Gobbo ye Clowne, . . Roberta W. Smith Stephano, a Messenger, . . Elizabeth H. Litchfield LeonardO, Servaunt to Bassanio, Elizabeth G. Hart Balthazar, Servaunt to Portia, . . . Helen M Davies Ialor, ...... Sadie M. Allen Also an Officer, Magniiicos of Venice, sundrie Attendants and Maskers. Ye dance is by Misses Anthony and Ward. Ye songe will be sung by Helen Fisher. Ye incidentale Musick written and kindlie offered by Mistress Osborne of ye College of Radcliffe at Cambridge. WE HUMBLIE praie you, pardon, Gentles all, Ye made Presumption of our roughcast Crewe, F Who here, in rudimental Art, can dare To pass unhewne before your watchful Eies This pricelesse Iewell from a Master Hand 3 Nor frown in Scorne upon this barren Stage, Devoid of high-wroght, studied Ornamente, Where Scene and Scene-in Truth now here, now there- In Fact march on comrningled alle in One : But lend your lighteste Fancie to ye Time, And let ye Poet's Musick beare your Hearts Away, away to far Italian Climes,- To gorgeous Venice and her merrie Thronge,- To iiowrie Belrnont's balme-perfumed Aire, Where beauteous Portia lived and loved and won. And nowe, with one last Word, ye Prolog here doth cease: We praie God give you, Gentles, endlesse Love and Peace. Done at ye Printing Shoppe of Willis, Bridgewater, MDCCCCX.