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...came in a welter of blood in Morocco and political chaos in Paris. The Berbers rebelled against El Glaoui and his stooge Sultan, went on a major uprising in the Atlas Mountains. The last straw for the French came when El Glaoui himself drove into Rabat in his black Bentley and blandly declared: "I identify myself with the wish of the Moroccan nation for a prompt restoration of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
Behind the charge against Melvin Bentley Ellis, 45, and his wife Frances, 37, looms a bitterly felt religious conflict: the Ellises are Jewish and Hildy McCoy, the freckled, honey-blonde first-grader they adopted as a ten-day-old baby six years ago, was born of an unmarried Roman Catholic mother...
...house." The volume was a real find-the only copy of a long-forgotten book published in 1577 on The Arte of Angling. Its title page had gone, and so had the name of its author. But its text had a distantly familiar ring. Says Princeton Professor Gerald Eades Bentley in his introduction to the Princeton University Library's republication of the book: "It would appear to me likely that Izaak Walton had taken his idea for the general structure of The Compleat Angler from The Arte of Angling...
Damaging as such evidence may sound by today's standards, says Bentley, no angler should be dismayed: "Everybody in Walton's time borrowed from other books. Milton did it, Shakespeare did it. Nobody thought of it as plagiarism at the time." Besides which, Walton fans will undoubtedly go right on agreeing with Walton's own judgment of his book: "And though this Discourse may be lyable to some Exceptions, yet I cannot doubt but that most Readers may receive so much pleasure or profit by it, as may make it worthy the time of their perusal...
...single argument runs through both the re-printed reviews and the longish essay which concludes the book, it is a plea for honesty. Mr. Bentley asks that Broadway examine itself in the light of the great theatrical traditions of the past, which, by showing what roles the art of the drama has filled in other societies, can teach us what it should be in our own. It is this plea, and the depth of his insight, which makes the reviews gathered in What Is Theatre? worthwhile reprinting and re-reading...