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...confronted with much paraphernalia that Shakspere never dreamed of. The staging of a play in the Bard's day was a simple matter. Now, however we have to decide what he would have done had he had the use of the apparatus which we have," explained Mr. Howard...
...Midsummer Night's Dream" makes the pretentious effort of visualizing for the spectator what William Shakespeare expected him to imagine. There are undoubtedly those who would object to the change of intellectual grounds, considering it a sin to keep the bard from being hard. But Max Reinhardt must be allowed a high degree of success in just what he attempted: catching the aery unreality of the dream...
...secret. His Shakspere was the writer of beautiful poetry and stirring drama, rather than the cabalistic soothsayer lesser minds have tried to make him. Not for Kittredge a mystical analysis on the knocking on the gate in Macbeth. To him this scene was merely another instance of the Bard's incomparable use of contrast in dramatic craftsmanship, and the unravelling of the mysteries of Elizabethan language coupled with an appreciation of Shakspere's poetry was all that Kittredge attempted. He saw Shakspere as a man, writing for his Elizabethan audience the most thrilling and poetic plays he knew...
Captain White will return to his position at forward after playing guard against Teach Wednesday night, while Vernon Struck bard hitting halfback on the Varsity football team, will move in to one of the guard posts. Bill Gray, star center is still out with a knee injury and is not expected back until the Princeton game...
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...