Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyay and Kshitish Roy wrote an article titled. "A chronicle of eighty years" in the centenary collection published by Sahitya Academy;
"George Calderon dramatises one of his short stories, Dallia, under the title, The Maharani of Arakan. The play was acted at Royal Albert Hall Theatre on 20th July -- the cast included S ybil Thorndike and Ronald Colman who made his debut in this performance."
Actually the Theatre was staged in that hall on 30th July , evening, organised by Indian Art Dramatic and Friendly Society. This organisation was founded by Kedarnath Dasgupta to organise Indian drama in English form. The news was published in Amrita Bazar Patrika on 11 Nov 1913;
" The success of their previous productions -- Budha, Sakuntala, Ratnabali, and The Maharani of Arakan -- has inspired the organisers of the Indian Art Dramatic and Friendly Society to present an Indian play "Mrichakati" (The Little Clay Cart), at the Royal Albert Hall Theatre on the evening of Tuesday 25 Nov and the afternoon of Saturday, the 29th.
The detail description of the ceremony was published in "The Times", on 31 July which said ;
"In the absence of Maharaja of Kaloyar, Rothenstein was deputed for introducing Rabindranath;
he said," on the characteristics of M r. Tagore's thought and work, his mysticism, the delight in the world about him which separates him from many western mystics...; his attitude to life and to death, the great lord for whom we keep all the riches of our thought and spirit."
On 2nd Aug, Rabindranath wrote to Ajit Kumar;
"A dramatist here named Calderon has translated my short story, Dallia, in the form of a drama. That was staged on that day. The spectators appreciated it. To read the translation is not appealing because some foreign tuning is there. I wrote a song for the drama with its melody.This is the first attempt, at present, to write poetry here.The song is, " Ali bar bar phire jay" ( The bee is to come and the bee is to go), to be sung by Amina. "
The drama was published in the book form in 1915 with the declaration'
"The Maharani of Arakan/ A Romantic Comedy in One Act/ Founded on the story of /Sir Raindranath Tagore/ By George Calderon/ Illustrated by Clarissa Miles/Photographs specially taken by Walter Benington/ Together with/ A character Sketch of/ Sir Rabindranath Tagore/ Compiled by K.N.Das Gupta/ London/ Francis Griffiths/ 34 Maiden Lane, Strand, W.C./ 1915.
On the next page it was written; Staged by / The Indian Art and dramatic Society.
"George Calderon dramatises one of his short stories, Dallia, under the title, The Maharani of Arakan. The play was acted at Royal Albert Hall Theatre on 20th July -- the cast included S ybil Thorndike and Ronald Colman who made his debut in this performance."
Actually the Theatre was staged in that hall on 30th July , evening, organised by Indian Art Dramatic and Friendly Society. This organisation was founded by Kedarnath Dasgupta to organise Indian drama in English form. The news was published in Amrita Bazar Patrika on 11 Nov 1913;
" The success of their previous productions -- Budha, Sakuntala, Ratnabali, and The Maharani of Arakan -- has inspired the organisers of the Indian Art Dramatic and Friendly Society to present an Indian play "Mrichakati" (The Little Clay Cart), at the Royal Albert Hall Theatre on the evening of Tuesday 25 Nov and the afternoon of Saturday, the 29th.
The detail description of the ceremony was published in "The Times", on 31 July which said ;
"In the absence of Maharaja of Kaloyar, Rothenstein was deputed for introducing Rabindranath;
he said," on the characteristics of M r. Tagore's thought and work, his mysticism, the delight in the world about him which separates him from many western mystics...; his attitude to life and to death, the great lord for whom we keep all the riches of our thought and spirit."
On 2nd Aug, Rabindranath wrote to Ajit Kumar;
"A dramatist here named Calderon has translated my short story, Dallia, in the form of a drama. That was staged on that day. The spectators appreciated it. To read the translation is not appealing because some foreign tuning is there. I wrote a song for the drama with its melody.This is the first attempt, at present, to write poetry here.The song is, " Ali bar bar phire jay" ( The bee is to come and the bee is to go), to be sung by Amina. "
The drama was published in the book form in 1915 with the declaration'
"The Maharani of Arakan/ A Romantic Comedy in One Act/ Founded on the story of /Sir Raindranath Tagore/ By George Calderon/ Illustrated by Clarissa Miles/Photographs specially taken by Walter Benington/ Together with/ A character Sketch of/ Sir Rabindranath Tagore/ Compiled by K.N.Das Gupta/ London/ Francis Griffiths/ 34 Maiden Lane, Strand, W.C./ 1915.On the next page it was written; Staged by / The Indian Art and dramatic Society.
