Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934
End Date: 13 February 1934
Type: Revels
Description: Started with a 'steak and kidney supper', and continued with various entertainments including a tableau vivant (frame made by Whitworth Aumonier) and a comic skit by L. Walker entitled 'Whither', in which Percy Bentham played the part of 'Mother Architecture' to P. Gossop's 'The Engineer'. Bayes started the revels with 'an amusing impersonation of the famous cricketer A.W.G. (Grace) with a score of "50 not out"'. Full list of participants: G. Bayes, H. Aitken, A. Allinson, J. H. Amshewitz, Whitworth Aumonier, P. Bentham, D. Braddell, H. B. Creswell, E. M. Dinkel, A. Glover, P. Gossop, S. H. Hamer, N. Heaton, D. Jarrett, C. D. St Leger, G. P. Mackeson, H. G. Murphy, H. de Poix, F. C. Tilney, D. J. Smart, H. T. Smith, L. Walker, J. Wedgwood and T. Wilson; H. Nelson and B. H. Newdigate designed programme; F. P. and P. J. Bentham provided lighting (Fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1935, pp. 5-7).
Participants
Participants included Gilbert William Bayes
Participants included James Wedgwood
Participants included William Whitworth Aumonier
Participants included L. Walker
Participants included Percy George Bentham
Participants included Ernest Michael Dinkel
Participants included Arthur Glover
Participants included Harry George Murphy
Participants included L. Walker
Participants included Philip J. Bentham
Citing this record
'Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1220526091, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
