The Editress and staff raise funds through a performance, June 1905

On Saturday last, Mr. E. P. Coleridge's translation of the Antigone of Sophocles was acted at the hall of the International College, Finchley Road, Hampstead, on behalf of the funds of the North Eastern Hospital for Children, Bethnal Green, to a highly appreciative audience. By kind permission the pupils of Miss Jacobert of Craven Hill House, formed the chorus, and sang Mendelssohn's music under the able directorship of Miss J. Stuart Smyth L.R.A.M.

Mrs Algernon Warren (formerly of Bristol) acted as stage manager. On the upper stage the palace walls were effectively represented by screens carefully draped in white. In front of these where several statues; and wreaths and festoons of ivy lent an artistic finish, whilst on the lower stage an alter was surrounded by the chorus divided into two sections, in mauve and yellow Greek costume. The parts were all taken by young ladies, and although the play was a decidedly difficult one, the lengthy speeches calling for considerable effort of memory, while the music was anything but easy, it was so performed as to give the audience considerable pleasure.

Miss Ethel Tudge's impersonation of Teiresias, the blind seer, was a powerful piece of acting, and both Miss Gladys Warren as Antigone, and Miss Gwendolen Whitcombe as the Messenger were much praised both for their clear delivery and dramatic impersonation. Miss Madge Nathan, as Haemon, also won considerable applause in a spirited scene with Creon (Miss Margaret Whitcombe).

At the end of the performance little master Harold Whitcombe presented Mrs Warren with a splendid bouquet of roses from the actresses, in grateful recognition of her efforts as stage manager.

Nurse Pearson, an ex-Bristolian (formerly of the Abingdon Fever Hospital) presided over the collection at the door, which realised £5 17s 9d for the funds of the Hospital.