Main Performers | Miss Ellen Terry, Miss Marion Terry, Lady Alexander, Lady Tree - hostesses
Miss Adeline Bourne - Tragedy, Miss Eva Moore - Comedy, Miss Henrietta Watson - English drama, Mr Ben Webster - Thespis, Mr Roland Cunningham, Miss Marion Terry - Hroswitha, Mr Gerald du Maurier - Capitaine Fracasse, Mr H V Esmond - Polchinello, Mr C V France - Richard Burbage, Mr Harcourt Williams - Shakespeare, Miss Murial Martin Harvey - Alexander Cooke, Miss Lena Ashwell - Nell Gwynne, Miss Edyth Olive - Mrs Barry, Miss Marie Illington - Mrs Bracesgirdle, Miss Irene Vanbrugh - Anne Oldfield, Miss Marie Tempest - Peg Woffington, Miss Evelyn D'Alroy - Mrs Clive, Miss Fortescue - Mrs Abington, Miss Lilian Braithwaite - Mrs Jordan, Miss Alexandra Carlisle - Mme Vestris, Mr Cyril Maude - Garrick, Mr Grahame Browne - Edmund Kean, Mr Edmund Gwenn - Grimaldi, Mr A E Benedict - Spielmann, the great 'Presenter', Miss Compton - Modern Comedy, Miss Constance Collier (Modern Tragedy), Miss Nina Boucicault - Peter Pan
Mr Harry Welchman - fiddle |
Set List | Tea Party, 'Pageant of the Stage' Miss Christopher St. John, arr. Miss Edith Craig |
Performance Notes | "...The Theatrical Ladies' Guild will offer tea, amusement, instruction, and a chance of helping a deserving and well-managed chairty to a company that will doubtless be very large. The tea-tables will be graced by the presence of Miss Ellen Terry, Miss Marion Terry, Lady Alexander, Lady Tree and some 20 more hostesses, all eminent actresses or eminent actors' wives." (The Times, 8 June 1912) |
Related Archival Material | Press Illustration |