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* 1926: Another elaborate performance of the play was staged as a benefit for the Actors ' Fund of America at the Hollywood Bowl.

Caesar arrived for the Lupercal in a chariot drawn by four white horses.

The stage was the size of a city block and dominated by a central tower eighty feet in height.

The event was mainly aimed at creating work for unemployed actors.

Three hundred gladiators appeared in an arena scene not featured in Shakespeare's play ; a similar number of girls danced as Caesar's captives ; a total of three thousand soldiers took part in the battle sequences.