Exhibition: Founder’s Day at Notre Dame [St. Edward’s Day, October 13]
Program
PART I.
Music–“night and Morning”: F. R. Webb; N[otre]. D[ame]. U[niversity]. C[ornet]. B[and].
Address from the Minims: W. McPhee, L. Scherrer, Elmo Barry
Song and Chorus: Orpheonics
Address from the Juniors: F Hagenbarth
Address from the Seniors: Neal H. Ewing
Overture–“Lustspiel”: Keller Bela; N.D.U. Orchestra
PART II.
Introductory Address: D. C. Saviers
Play: Une Cause Célèbre, a melodrama in six acts, founded on an incident of “The Battle of Fontenoy” [May 11, 1745, major engagement and French victory in the War of the Austrian Succession]
Dates: October 12, 1884 [Eve of St. Edward’s Day], 7:00 P.M.
Venue: Music Hall [likely Washington Hall]
Director: Unknown
Sponsor/Producer: Euglossian Association
Cast List to follow
Interval between second and third act: Master Oxnard’s piano solo Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
TABLEAUX.
Closing Remarks: omitted due “to the lateness of the hour.”
Grand march for Retiring: N. D. U. C. B.
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:6, Oct. 11, 1884, 94; 18:7, Oct. 18, 1884, 104-5.
Exhibition: St. Cecilia’s Day
Dates: Saturday, Nov. 22, 1884, 7:30 P.M.
Venue: Academy of Music [Washington Hall]
Programme
Music–“Golden Leaf”: F. Keller; N. D. U. C. Band
Address–“St. Cecilia Society”: F. Hagenbarth
Selections “From the Minims’ Musical Repertoire“: F. Crotty, W. McPhee, E. Berry, L. Scherrer, J. Piero, F. Cobbs, T. Mahon, F. Peck
Dialogue–“The Pledge”: W. Mulkern, G. Tarrant
Declamation–“The Toast”: A. Hoye
“The Agitation Bull” (O’Connell): J. Ancheta
“The Spread Eagle”: P. Mullane
Music–“Overture to the Siege of Paris” (W. S. Ripley): N. D. U. Orchestra
“The Soldier’s Pardon”: T. Callaghan
“Erin’s Flag” (Father Ryan): J. Monschein
“The Captive”: H. A. Steis
“The Ship of Fate”: C. Mason
Duo–“What are the Wild Waves Saying?” (Glover): W. E. Ramsay and R. Stephens
“The Gladiator”: J. J. Conway
“Wolsey’s Farewell”: J. Kleiber
“How to Attend Conflagrations”: A. Willard
Selection from Henry IV: F. W. Dexter
Musical Selection (piano and violin) Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Prof. Paul (violin), R. Oxnard (musical prodigy on the piano)
“McLaur’s Child”: C. Harris
“The Mariner”: J. J. Garrity
“Phenological Examination”: T. Mathers
Selection from Mrs. Heman’s works”: W. E. Ramsay
La Foi–Trio (Rossini): W. E. Ramsay, R. Stephens, G. O’Kane, A. Marion, E. Crawford, A. Smith
Serenade (Keller): N. D. U. C. Band
Note.–Should time permit, and the entertainment take place in the Exhibition Hall, Act V, Scene 1 of “Hamlet” will be given by Masters Monschein and Mason as 1st and 2d Grave-Diggers, B. Wiley as “Hamlet,” and R. Stephens as “Horatio” [omitted]
Closing Remarks: President Walsh
Director: Joseph A. Lyons, assisted by Prof. Paul and Bro. Anselm “for the musical part”
Sponsors: St. Cecilia Philoathean and Euglossian SocietiesPlay: Scene from Hamlet omitted due to time, but many events.
Source for the above:Scholastic 18:12, Nov. 22, 1884, 190; 18:13, Nov. 29, 1884 , 201-2
Exhibition: Annual Winter Exercises [aka 27th Annual Christmas Exercises]
(a bit early because of students being “dispersed for the holidays” by the Reverend Father Walsh’s patronal festival, St. Thomas the apostle, Dec. 21)
Dates: Wednesday, December 17, 1884, 6:30 P.M.
Sponsor: St. Cecilian Philomathean Association
Venue: Washington Hall
Program
Part I:
Grand St. Cecilia March: N. D. U. C. B.
Address–Minim Department: G. Berry, L. Scherrer, C. Mooney
Address–Senior Department: J. W. Guthrie
Duet: W. E. Ramsay, R. Stephens
Address–St. Cecilia Society: F. J. Hagenbarth
Overture: Orchestra “The Siege of Paris”
Prologue: T. J. Cleary
Part II.
Play: The Recognition [published in Lyons’s The American Elocutionist], a drama of the 15th century in four acts
Author: Father Lemonnier
Director: J. A. Lyons
Cast List
Duke of Spoleto: F. J. Hagenbarth
Almeno 2d citizen: C. Reynolds
Soldiers, citizens, guards, and attendants.
TABLEAU.
Epilogue: Joseph Garrity
Music: N. D. U. C. B.
Closing remarks by Rev. Pres. Walsh
Note: special thanks to Rev. Mr. Regan, Bros. Lawrence and Anselm, Profs. Edwards, Hoynes, McCormack, Paul, and Ackerman.
Exhibition: Close of Holiday Season Exhibition
Dates: Wednesday last before January 10, 1885 (check dates)
Sponsor: Euglossian Association
Venue: Washington Hall
Play: “an impromptu affair”
credit to Messrs. Ramsay and Otisprobably the same as:
Sponsor: Home Dramatic Club
Dates: last Wednesday (before January January 10, 1885)
Play: Disturbed Repose
Cast List to follow
Play: The Quarrel Scene of the Fourth Act from “Mike Beth’s Julius Sneezer”, Remodelled for the Occasion
Cast List to follow
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:18, Jan. 10, 1885, 290.
Exhibition: Washington’s Birthday, 41st annual celebration
Dates: Saturday, Feb. 21, 1885, 6:30 P.M.
Venue: Washington Hall “the large auditorium of the Music Hall”
Play: Falsely Accused, or Waiting for the Verdict, a domestic drama in three Acts. Remodelled for the Thespian Association.
Director: J. A. Lyons
Cast list to follow
Sponsor: Thespian Association
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:24, Feb. 21, 1885, 386.
Exhibition: St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1885
Play: Robert Emmet
Sponsor: ColumbiansSource: Scholastic 18:28, March 21, 1885, 449-50
Exhibition: Shakespeare at Notre Dame, aka, Shakespeare Entertainment
Date: April 29, 1885
Sponsor: Euglossian AssociationPlays: The Merchant of Venice, Act 4
Julius Caesar, Acts 1, 3, and 4.
Richard III, Act I
Hamlet, 3.1
Macbeth, 1.1, 1.2
Source: Scholastic 18:34, May 2, 1885, 545-46.
Exhibition: Thirteenth Annual Entertainment of the St. Stanislaus’ Philopatrian Society, comlimentary to Very Rev. A. Granger, C.S.C.
Play: The Triumph of Justice; [omitted: Generosity; Excitement on the St. Joe Valley R. R.]
Date: May 27, 1885
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:38, May 30, 1885, 610.
Exhibition: Summer Entertainment, 27th annual
Sponsor: St. Cecilia Philomathean Society
Dates: Saturday evening last before June 13, 1885
Play: Major André, modified and arranged by Prof. Lyons
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:40, June 13, 1885, 641-42.
Exhibition: Commencement, 41st annual
Dates: June 22-24, 1885
Play: Scenes from Julius Caesar
Venue: Washington Hall
Source for the above: Scholastic 18:42, June 24, 1885, 675-76.