Date:1938
Description:Over a thousand knights took part in the third episode; ‘English and French, mounted and unmounted, foot soldiers, archers and “bombardiers”’ filled the arena. Gwen Lally and the pageant committee made regular appeals in early 1938 for sportsmen or ‘active participants in Rugby and Association football, cricket, tennis and other forms of athletics’ to play the roles, and the scene presented ‘as fierce a fight and as technical a battle as in any huge film’. At least one woman, Gloria Price, took part in the battle and played one of the mounted knights (her photograph appeared in the Birmingham Gazette on July 16th).
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In 1938 Birmingham celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city’s Borough Charter. A pageant was the ...
Discussions between the Town Clerk and Gwen Lally about the Birmingham Pageant began in January 1938. ...
The eight episodes of the Pageant were as follows: the Prologue, showing prehistoric Birmingham to 1066 ...
Gwen Lally and the pageant committee worked hard in the preceding months to whip up enthusiasm amongst ...
Although a success with the press and public, the Pageant went vastly over-budget; after the last performance ...
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