A Musical Extravaganza

Showing how the Call to Arms was obeyed at certain stages in the Ascent of Man (chronologically arranged).

In the composition of which the following are more or less implicated: Miss Erica Fell, A. H. Bogle, G. M. Cleghorn, S. Eichelbaum, F. A. de la Mare and G. H. Nicholls.

Music by Wagner, Sullivan, Maughan Barnett and other celebrated composers. Scenery by Miss Sybil L. Johnson.

"Thus, from the war of Nature, from famine and death the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving * * * directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life * * that * * from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and. most wonderful have been and are being evolved.—Darwin's "Descent of Man."

"The play was not good. The punishment for those that laughed at it was capital."—Gilbert.