Waifs and Strays Pageant
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Royal Albert Hall (Kensington) (Kensington, Middlesex, England)
Year: 1935
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 1
Notes
22 May 1935
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Helder, C.G.E.
- Director of Music: Dr Wheeler Robinson
Names of executive committee or equivalent
Executive Committee
- Chairman: Colonel E. Wyndham
- Duchess of York
- Beatrix Wilkinson
- Bishop of Southwark
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
1000Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
Funds raised for the Waifs and Strays Society
Linked occasion
Fifty-fourth anniversary of the society
Audience information
- Grandstand: No
- Grandstand capacity: n/a
- Total audience: n/a
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
After the pageant 1100 children were presented with purses of 10s.
Pageant outline
Episode 1. Alfred Making friends with the Danes after defeating them
Episode 2. The First Prince of Wales invested at Caernarvon
Episode 3. The Arrival of James VI of Scotland at Walton and is welcomed by the people of Essex
Episode 4. Symbolical allegory of the British Empire, Dominions and Colonies
Key historical figures mentioned
- Alfred [Ælfred] (848/9–899) king of
the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons [also known as Aelfred, the Great]
- Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
(1284–1327) king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
- James VI and I (1566–1625) king of
Scotland, England, and Ireland
Musical production
Music performed by the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society
Newspaper coverage of pageant
The
Times
Observer
Book of words
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Other primary published materials
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References in secondary literature
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
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Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
The pageant was one of several arranged by the Waifs and Strays Society held around the country, though it seems that different scripts were used for each pageant. The society had previously held pageants at Hyde in Manchester in 1927 and at Grasmere in 1932.1
Footnotes
1. ^ Manchester Guardian, 25 May 1927, 14; Manchester Guardian, 15 September 1932, 18.
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Waifs and Strays Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1523/