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Shakespearean Ball Tonight for National Memorial Theatre
London hosts a Shakespearean ball to raise funds for a new memorial theatre. Nobility in Elizabethan and Shakespearean costumes will fill the crowd, with over 1,000 named participants from kings to clowns. A large women’s committee led by Mrs. George-Cornwallis West includes duchesses and countesses among many prominent figures.
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London
Albert Thill
Xecuriins Funda
Lear
Hamlet
Christopher Sly
Audrey
Cleopatra
Ariel
Cagiban
Titinia
Pauletarr
Tadies
George — Cornwallis West
Randolph Churchnill
Duchess of Somerset
Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess of Southerland
Marchioness of
Fishnry
Countess of
Wemyss
Miriel Countess de la Karr
Cora Countess of Stratford
Countess of Lytton
Countess ‘of