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This week and probably many more to come will see Max Reinhardt's "Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Majestic Theatre. On the playbills some credit is given to one William Shakespeare for some work on the script, thus confirming the long-whispered rumor that the Bard of Avon was the first Warner Brother...
...Manhattan's Doctors Hospital was found a patient named William Shakespeare, 54, Southampton, L. I. carpenter with gallstones. Said he: "My father was born in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and he and my mother used to say that we are descendants of the old man. I got a hold of one of his plays years ago-Romeo and Juliet, I think-and I started to read it, but it didn't make sense to me. One of my boys I named William Shakespeare- after me, not the play writer. I don't take much stock in names...
Proctor H. Avon '37, Bernard R. Baldwin, John P. Campana '36, Captain Charles E. Carr, ocC., Paul F. Connolly '36, Howard P. Hall '36, Norman Ingalls '36, Stanley G. Kellogg '35, David B. MacIntosh '37, Robert R. McGoodwin, Jr. '35, Malcolm McTernan, Jr. '37, Herbert G. Regan '37, Huntington Thom '35, George F. Tittmann '36, Royall Victor '37, William W. Waters '37, Paul L. Wilson '36, Manager William Bentinck-Smith...
First editions of "The Man Who Died Twice," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925, "The Prodigal Son," "Avon's Harvest" and many other of his lesser-known works are exhibited. The poet's first work "The Torrent and The Night Before" is to be seen with a personal inscription to President Eliot by the author, in his familiar indecipherable hand...
Proctor H. Avon '37 will toe the slab for Harvard at 4 o'clock, while Rasmussen will pitch for the schoolboys, who are favored on the basis of their earlier 3-2 defeat of the Freshmen. HARVARD 1938 EXETER Larcom, g. g., Irving Magurn, p. p., Brookings Scott, c.pt. c.pt., Happer Mckellar, 1d. 1d., Feeley Cobb, 2d. 2d., Iason Campion, c. c., Gifford Hunsaker, J., 2a. 2a., Downey Sutro, 1a. 1a., Roche Hunsaker, P., c.h. c.h., Taliaferro Derby, i.h. i.h., Suman...