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William Shakespeare, bard, also contributed to the Mirror on the opening day of Mr. Moore's ownership. Said he at the top of the editorial page: "O, how full of briers is this working-day world!" Readers of the Mirror were offered $5 apiece for published letters answering the question: "If YOU were publishing the MIRROR, what sort of newspaper would you produce to meet your tastes and interests...
...other than modern. The plays themselves are in no hands safer from mutilation than those of an osteopath. And the relative ideals of the two funds may be accurately projected by having the Stratford fund produce the plays that are beyond doubt Shakespearean while the Broadway Cathedral of the Bard rallies the flagging hearts of Baconians...
...Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...
Bared Brains. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon with Dr. Philip Bard pared off various parts from the brains of animals and studied what functions were lost and what remained. They discovered that emotional activity is controlled by a very small section in the optic thalamus. This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control...
From those who like their Shakespeare, as Mr. Benchley would say, the repertoire offered by Fritz Leiber has been a gift from heaven. Not only has the Bard been presented with more or less respect to the text but the prices have been on a scale proportionate to the student pocketbook. Seats in the orchestra are for once not entirely prohibitive...