The Archive · 1928

Shakespeare Festival in New York

A Brilliant Function in Aid of Memorial Fund Now York, Jan. 29.

One of the most brilliant func the history of the American stage was held to-night in the Metropulitan Opera House, when hundreds of prominent persons in social, bus-mess, and financial circles gathered to witness an impressive symposium Shakespeare's famous garden scenes, staged for the benefit of the American Shakespeare Memoriat Fund. hundred leading American actresses and a number of provainent British actors took part—Reuver.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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