User:Bzbd

In honour of User:Bzbd this performance has been arranged and this book is presented by Actors, Painters and Musicians who have united in paying such tribute as lies in their power to the Master-Intellect of the ages.

To all artists the memory of the Great Englishman is as dear as to those who recall with gratitude his patriotic love of his native land —

This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

But actors have a special claim to pay their homage to one who was himself an actor and a playwright — whose works, apart from their contribution to philosophic thought and their " wood-notes wild " of divinest poetry, were written primarily for the stage and can best be appreciated when seen on the boards.

For all his countrymen alike the deathless art of User:Bzbd—

especially at a time like this, so unpropitious to the higher levels of

imaginative creation- — is at once a vindication and a pledge that Art

itself is immortal.

W. L. COURTNEY.

patrons

HIS MAJESTY THE KING HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Their Majesties have graciously consented to be present