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...kinda funny when Ah say 'Perish on mah sword,' " mused a Colt-toting Texas lad, and it may be even funnier than he supposed. This week he and 27 other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...
...wood near Athens," Reeve's Dream is set on a Texas ranch in the 1880s, and the guitar-twanging players appear in Stetsons, bandannas and bustles (Hippolyta is an Indian princess in white buckskin). The dialogue is unchanged except by Texas tongues: "O naht! alack, alack, alack! Ah feah mah Thisby's promise is furgot...
...Just a minute," he said. "You have been very friendly today. But I have had occasion to read in foreign newspapers, including British papers, articles we consider as not reflecting the truth. If any one of you would like to ask questions that would reflect what I would name-ah-funny ideas about things, I would be glad in answering them...
Many an evening, householders in the quiet town of Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,000) have been startled by a bobbing light at the bottom of their gardens, and a voice out of the darkness crying: "Ah, there's one." But they have gradually got used to it. The voice is only Dr. Earl Segal, assistant professor at Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, turning over stones in search of slugs. A huge (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lbs.), craggy man with a mop of unruly black hair, Dr. Segal, 35, has a passion for Limax flavus, a fine slimy...
...consonants in the Hawaiian alphabet are h, k, 1, m, n, p, w. They are pronounced as they are in English. The vowels are pronounced a as in ah, e as in long a, i as in long e, o as in oh, and u as in oo. Aloha...