Word: avon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...March 13 issue, on p. 44, TIME said that a man in Stratford-on-Avon died...
Died. William Shakespeare (no kin), 83; of old age; in Stratford-on-Avon, England...
Captain Chester E. Sargent, the coach, hopes for a win over Avon, even though the team will play on strange ponies. At the Armory, both teams will be hampered by the absence of players. The Varsity lost a hard fought game against the Satirev team in its opener, 14-13, and since then has had only one practice...
...Avon the line-up will probably be: Hughes, number one, White, number two, and Higgins, number three...