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...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian?is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
Poverty. "The poverty of the peasants is indicated by their dress as well as by their houses. Wooden shoes are worn next to bare feet by a majority of the country population. Almost all the children are barefoot. The clustering little villages are cheaply constructed, the roofs are thatched, the windows are small and sometimes are altogether absent...
...rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements are necessary. But nobody says " begorra...
...Football is considered an excessive strain to Oriental tempers. The mildness of the climate makes it possible for sports to be enjoyed all winter. Most of the athletes are so by nature rather than by training; an amusing instance was that of a country boy who insisted on running barefoot on a cinder track. Almost all the contests are intra-collegiate, but occasionally the university soccer team has an opportunity to try its ability against outside teams, and is often defeated by the crack elevens from the British warships. Baseball has usually been restricted to the American instructors...
PARK THEATRE. Maggie Mitchell in "Little Barefoot...