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...origin of the title "Twelfth Night" probably came from the fact that it was originally produced on the Feast of the Epiphany. The second title, "What you Will," is a much disputed addition, the most simple explanation of which seems to be that it was given to express the author's ironical discontent at the title "Twelfth Night...
Radcliffe College Scholarship Fund. The Battle with the Slums. (Illustrated with Stereopticon.) Mr. Jacob A. Riis, author of "How the Other Half Lives." Sanders Theatre, 8 p. m. Tickets with reserved seats, fifty cents, for sale at Seaver's and Amee...
...Mask and Wig Club will produce this year "Mr. Aguinaldo, Jr.," by Mr. William Ernst ex '96 L., the author of last year's play. The plot deals with the vagaries, disappearances and reappearances of Aguinaldo. As nine men of last year's cast will again try for parts, the prospects for a successful performance are very good. The first performance will be on April 14 at Atlantic City, and will be followed by two performances in Philadelphia...
...Gilbert '01, relates an impossible story, which is later discovered to be a dream. Throughout, the story is smooth and swift, but, in plot and analysis of character, it is feeble. "Miss Carrigan: A Modern," by Lewis D. Humphry '01, is an interesting attempt at character sketching. The author plainly knows what he wants to say, and says it cleverly. "Elizabeth and Priscilla," by W. N. Seaver '00, just fails of being very good indeed. It is carefully planned and well written. But it is not convincing. "Tom's Wife," is a New England dialect yarn of good local color...
...Riis is known as the author of "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor" and other articles on social questions. The lecture will be illustrated by photographs taken during the last ten years in the tenement house district of New York, when the author was serving on the Small Parks Committee and the Committee on Vagrancy...