On April 23, 1917 at the Old Vic Theatre (formerly known as the Royal Victoria Hall) in London, England, held a Shakespeare Birthday Festival where Dame Ellen Terry, Matheson Lang, Russell Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Lillian Braithwaite, Joyce Carey, Florence Saunders, Hutin Britton, Gertrude Elliott, and Ben Webster appeared, directed by Sir Ben Street.