Word: barding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed for the occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint to increase space in the Sunpapers, as Baltimoreans have always called the two sheets. Mr. Black was drowned in 1930, slipping from the taffrail of his yacht Sabalo off the Jersey coast...
...voice of William Shakespeare rang out twice last week in the high courts of two States as that widely informed Elizabethan's opinion was cited in a pair of widely different cases. In Indiana, the Bard's side won. In New York it lost...
...nobody thought that when Kitty stomped out of Harvard Hall he'd from the shelf the precious Shakspere stol'n and put him in his pocket. After all, Shakspere is the immortal bard who depends not on a single man for his interpretation today-a single man whose little life, as far as his plays go, is decidedly not rounded with a sleep. Could the retirment of one great teacher mean the passing of Shakspere from Harvard College...
Until yesterday we didn't think so. But today we do. For the undergraduates, judging by what we've heard, have sunk to a state of bestial oblivion as far as the bard is concerned, and Harvard Hall, despite the English department's effect to fill in the gap, is cold,-bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang...
...immortal Bergner appears this time in a celebrated piece from the pen of the Immortal Bard. For the stage effects, the minor characters, and for the pleasure of rehearing Shakespeare's poetry it is well worth seeing. By and large, as theatre, it does...