(by Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, December 17, 2022)
This history play has some history of its own. Its title, “Five Flags Furled,” seems to refer to the concept of “six flags over Texas” — Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, Confederate and United States — with the first five having been “furled” or folded and put away after each regime change. The program cover shows all six flags in an illustration captioned “Texas through six political periods,” but the last of the play’s three acts, as described in the program and elsewhere, ends in 1831 at Stephen F. Austin’s colony — under the Mexican flag, with the remaining three banners still in the future.
Also according to the cover, this production was given Nov. 2, 1931, in San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium. Yet other sources say that a history play by author W. Frances Scarborough was supposed to have been presented much earlier. It appears that not only the…
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