AN INCENTIVE TO PATRIOTISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 102, 20 June 1911, Page 4

AN INCENTIVE TO PATRIOTISM.

The Juno issue of tho “Windsor Magazine” contains an article on tho. Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon, accompanied by interesting photographs of various ceremonies and many portraits of the principal 'players taking part in the celebration under the direction of Mr. F. R. Benson. This interesting gallery includes finely reproduced portraits, most ol them full-page plates, of Miss Ellen Terry, Mrs. F. It. Benson, Miss \ iolet Vanbrugh, Miss Julia Neilson, Miss Lily Brayton, Miss Marion Terry, Miss Hut in Britton, Miss Madge Titheradge, Miss Constance Collier, Mr F.. R. Benson, Mr. Lewis Waller, Mr. Oscar Asclie, Mr. Fred Terry, Mr. Henry Ainley, Mr. Otto Stuart, Mr. Mathcson Lang, and Sir Herbert Tree. Considering the rapid developments ,in Stratford’s activities, the writer says: “Out of the Folk Conference to be held in the course of the Festival may possibly come yet further developments of the scheme successfully inaugurated by last year’s Summer Season, at a period of the year when many who are not free to make a holiday .in the spring arc able to attend, in addition to the large number of Stratford’s overseas visitors of the later season. Wo understand that it is possible that in the course of this extension of Stratford’s annual celebration, Mr and Mrs. Benson may he able to repeat, with especial appropriateness in tin’s year of Coronation, their long series of productions, in chronological order, of Shakespeare’s plays from our nation's history, which must ever be regarded as one of the most valuable achievements of tbeir work at the Memorial Theatre. Illuminating as were these performances when given for the first time as a consecutive series, they would to-day have even a further interest in connection with the recent revival of pride in our national arts and crafts to which Stratford has lent the prestige of her unique associations. One can think of no more potent incentive towards an intelligent patriotism than the frequent repetition of that vivid series of plays.”