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The Staff Technocal Director ----- T.J. HOPKINS Costumer --------------- ALMA THOMAS President -------------- THEODORE O. SPAULDING Vice-Pres. ------------- MARTHA JONES, M.T. GREENE Secretary -------------- HARRIET STEWART Treasurer -------------- PETER HELM Librarian -------------- JAMES COBB Assistant -------------- PAULINE FLETCHER Publicity -------------- EDWARD LOVETT Make-Up ---------------- EDYTHE TAYLOR Music ------------------ ERNEST HEMBY Properties ------------- JAMES PEACOX Scenery ---------------- VIRGIL CARSON Dances ----------------- VELMA YOUNG Business Manager ------- ALFRED SMITH The Exile An Italian Classical Drama by Edward Christopher Williams Direction of MONTGOMERY GREGORY Assisted by M.F. PETERS Lorenzo De Medici (the Magnificant) - Tyrant of Florence - T.O. Spaulding Giovanna Salviati, Exiled from Florence - - - - - - Merwyn Coy Minuccio, a Minister of Lorenzo - Leo Wilson Father Francesco, a priest - - S. Murrell Andrea Marco--Gentlemen of the Court - Melvin Greene and William Brown Ercole, Sansone--Hirelings of Minuccio - - Arthur Burke, Charles Williams Giacomo, Court Jester - - Robert Watson Clerk - - - - Edward Lovett Court Chamberlain - - Joseph T. Stanley Captain of the Palace Guard - Peter Helm The Jailer - - - - - Fred Davis Jailer's Assistant - - - William Hopkins Servant - - - - - Vernon Rich Physician - - - - - James Cobb Lady Bianca - - - - Martha Jones Lady Lucretia - - - - Jessie Atkins Lady Marcherita - - - Pauline Fletcher Lady Teresa - - - - Edmonia White Ladies of the Court - - Marcella Dumas, Harriet Stewart Gentlemen of the Court - Ernest Hemby, Virgil Carson Peasants in Dance--Leronia Badham, Louise Young, Marie Harris, Vera Welch, Anna Masterson, Ellen Hill, Frances Walker, Edna Forest Time: May, 1490 Places: Florence and Fiesole ACT I.—Audience Hall in the Palace of the Medici, Florence ACT II.—Sitting Room of the Lady Bianca ACT III.—Lorenzo's Country Place at Fiesole ACT IV.—Audience Hall in the Palace of the Medici. THE UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA DORCY T. RHODES, Director WESLEY I. HOWARD, Assistant Director The costumes used in this production represent the work of the Players in their Workshop under the direction of Alma Thomas. The scenic and lighting effects also represent the works of the Players in their Workshop under the direction of T. J. Hopkins, assisted by Atherton Robinson. Dances arranged by Gertrude Curtis of the Department of Physical Education of Howard University. The net proceeds of this performance will be devoted to a fund for the building of a Little Theatre on the Howard University Campus as an experimental center for Negro Drama. Your active interest and contributions are invited. ALLEN A. BURGESS, Concert Master Department of English; LORENZO TURNER, Head "We look forward to the establishment of a National Negro Theatre, where the Negro Playwright, Musician, Actor, Dancer and Artist shall fashion a drama that shall win the admiration of the world."--M.G. Courses are offered in Dramatic Art under the Department of English for students desiring to specialize in this field. There is a growing demand for trained workers in the Art of Dramatic Production on the part of Schools, Colleges, Social Service Organizations, and the doors of the legitimate stage are opening wider daily for the Negro Dramatist, Actor and Producer. SYNOPSIS This drama is centered around the intense political rivalries of the Salviati and Medici families for control of the government of Florence, Italy, in the Fifteenth Century. Giovanni Salviati, the last of his line, exiled from Florence by Lorenzo De Medici, called The Magnificent, because of his love for Biano, the ward of Lorenzo, returns to Florence in the guise of a monk. The victim of double dealing on the part of Minuccio, Lorenzo's minister of state, he is apprehended and brought to trial for his life and is finally saved through the pleadings of Bianca.
