Bethnal Green Pageant
Pageant type
Notes
Information drawn from 'Survey of Historical Pageants' undertaken by Mick Wallis; with thanks to David Rich of Bancroft Library.
Performances
Place: York Hall, Bethnal Green (Bethnal Green) (Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England)
Year: 1935
Indoors/outdoors: Indoors
Number of performances: 4
Notes
19-22 February 1935
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Daniels, Margot
Names of executive committee or equivalent
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Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
- Daniels, Margot
- Sabin, A.K.
- Vale, George
- Snaith, Stanley
- Murray, Barbara
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
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Financial information
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Object of any funds raised
Queen's Hospital for Children; Victoria Park Hospital for Diseases of the Heart; Bethnal Green and East London Housing Association.
Linked occasion
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Audience information
Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
Key historical figures mentioned
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Musical production
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Newspaper coverage of pageant
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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
Local History Library, Bancroft Library: Scrapbook containing programme with full script, photographs and newspaper cutting. Class 390.5. Accession no. L.1461
Sources used in preparation of pageant
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Summary
This seems to have been a small-scale. It was held in aid of various local charities. Staged in York Hall in February 1935, it was likely performed 4 times.
Footnotes
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘Bethnal Green Pageant’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1538/