" PAGEANT OF EMPIRE."

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 69, 23 March 1910, Page 7

" PAGEANT OF EMPIRE."

COOK'S DEPARTURE FOR AUSTRALIA. Bf TMegraph.— Presi Association. -Copyr'fiht. (Received March 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd March. The Lambeth Borough has undertaken to provide a scene at the "Pageant of Empire," depicting Captain Cook's departure for Australia. Four hundred actors will take part in the scene. The Pageant, in which no fewer than 15,000 pereonn will take part, is to ba tho central feature of tho "Festival of Empire," at the Crystal Palace next summer. The ch.iiumin of the council is the Earl of Plymouth, and afpociatpd with his Lordship are the Duke o c Fife, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Strathconn and Mount I'oyai, and other eminent men. The Master of tho Pageant is Mr. Frank Luscelles, who produced po hucccfisfnlly the Canadian pageant for tho Quebec tercontenmy celebrationb. Tho pjigeant to be produced ut the Ciystal Palace will bo in twonty-four scones, arranged in a cycle of thre« •"cries after the Wngnerian method. A cloud or steam cm tain will be used to close each scene, this iden again being taken from Wagner. An historical committee, under the prebidency of Mr. G. Laurence Gomnic, F.S.A., have selected the scenes, handing them over, as it were, in a rough form, to Mr. Luscell?*, who arranges them for the pageant. In each scene the I'agcant Master will have two historian* to guide him in the detailf. It will bo seen from the lint "of scenes following that each one mark* Borne important evolution in tho hictory of the country :—: — "Tho Dawn of History," "Tho Foun dations of the City," "The Coming of Christianity," "The Danish Invasion, ' "The Normon Conquent," "The Civic Freedom." "London's Paladium," "The Ase oi Chivalry," "The Canterbury Pilgrims," "Social Upheaval," "Triumph of Conquest," "Passing of Mcdiaevalism in England," "Fimt Discoveries," "The London of Merrio England," "Education nnd Poor Law," "The Spurious Dajj of Queen Elizabeth," "Rite of the English Theatre," "Trade with India,' "The Beginnings of Empire," "Pawing of Old London," "Tho Mourning Triumph," "Quebec and the Death of Wolfe and Montcalm," "New Discoveries" (Captain Cook leaving Deptford for the South Seas), "The Allied Sovereigns," "Gathering of tho Overseas Dominions Round the Mother Country."