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STRATFORD-ON-AVON--"More and more light," sagely noted Shakespeare, commenting on the new CRIMSON telephone book. "It tell a lie--why, spit in my face, call me horse," the poet continued. Encouraged by the Bard's response, the CRIMSON bravely offers a Free Subscription to the first person to spot all 208 errors in the book. The new expanded edition is on sale now in all House dining halls and at the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton St. $1, cash...
...Dorothy Thompson was at the beginning of her later fame, and at the bitter end of her marriage to Josef Bard, a sponging Hungarian cad whom she had mistaken for a genius. Despite the presence of a former Prime Minister of Hungary, the "momentous guest" was a 42-year-old American novelist-Sinclair Lewis. After dinner, the guest wasted no time, cornered his hostess and asked her to marry him (he neglected to mention that he was already married). Replied Dorothy: "I don't even know you, Mr. Lewis...
...China, he got a quick and bitter taste of the nation's new mood. No fewer than five Chinese Communist delegations-including poets, pingpong players and trade officials-were getting the welcome treatment from Pakistani officials. Gleefully, the Pakistan press trumpeted the words of one visiting Chinese bard who wrote: "You are on the western coast of the sea and we are on the east. The tidal waves of the ocean roar, and intermingled, we can hear the sound of our heartbeat...
...Bard's Petard...
...little meatier than Broadway leftovers reheated for the summer circuit, there is always Shakespeare. Across the land, Shakespeare festivals are proliferating in colleges, in parks, in barns, in permanent installations that sometimes even look like Elizabethan theaters. A few have found it expedient to lard their offerings of the bard with other classics from Shaw to Gilbert and Sullivan. On the menu: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Ore.: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ro meo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V. Season ends Sept...