AFTERWORD

In the original production of this masque, referred to in the Foreword, the sanctuary stage was devised by Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith in two planes—the natural and the supernatural, harmoniously blended.

The natural plane, in the foreground, was a leaf-strewn plot of earth; the supernatural, in the background, was a constructed stage some eighteen inches higher, sloping slightly upward toward the back, covered with smooth canvas, practical for dancing, so painted as to suggest a weathered outcropping of rock, overgrown in places by moss and greensward.

This constructed stage was divided from the foreground earth by the trunk of a felled maple tree, straight in line and inconspicuous in color.

In front of this dividing line, SHY and Alwyn remained always in the natural plane; behind it, Ornis and Tacita remained always in the supernatural. Their scenes 70together were enacted near or beside the fallen tree trunk.

In the scene of his conversion, Stark was lured into the higher plane by Tacita; while Quercus alone among the characters skipped back and forth from one plane to the other.

As audience, the non-participating spectators sat in dominoes of brown, flanked on either side by the bird-participants in their pied bird costumes. These latter watched the performance until, at the finale, they were summoned by Quercus upon the constructed stage.

There, when all had been marshalled, entered the Cardinal Bird [enacted by Mr. Herbert Adams, the sculptor], accompanied by two small scarlet-tanager acolytes [boys], bearing great candles, to light a crimson cushion held by the Cardinal. On the cushion lay an open scroll.

This scroll, itself a sheet of parchment-like paper from the original press of Benjamin Franklin, had been inscribed by Mr. Stephen Parrish with a Sonnet-Epilogue,

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Cardinal Bird and Hummingbird

73composed by the author of the masque and signed by all of its participants, with their real names opposite the species of birds they severally impersonated.

Moving slowly forward to music till he stood before President and Mrs. Wilson, where they sat near the centre of the first row of the audience, the Cardinal Bird, with simple dignity, read from the scroll this

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,

74We 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

75PRELUDE

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

76EPILOGUE

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

77SCARLET 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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