Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot deals in a humorous manner with the story of Antony and Cleopatra and follows in a general way the version of Shakespeare's play until the second act in which a football game between Caesar and Antony is introduced. The audience sees a scoreboard in Cleopatra's palace and follows the game along with the crowd...
...first act of the play is supposedly modelled on 'Antony and Cleopatra" with some original variations, musical numbers and specialties. In the second act, the struggle between Caesar and Antony is settled on the football field with Cleopatra playing. Cleopatra forfeits the game, but in a return encounter Antony saves the day by a trick play secured from a soothsayer. Antony and Cleopatra are finally married by King...
...first act is supposed to follow the plot of "Antony and Cleopatra" with some original variations, musical numbers and specialties. In the second act the struggle between Caesar and Antony is settled on the football field with Cleopatra playing. Cleopatra forfeits the game, but in a return encounter Antony saves the day by a play which he secures from a soothsayer. By a twist of dialogue the misunderstanding between Antony and Cleopatra is cleared up, the desired happy ending is achieved, and King Mud grants the pair their freedom...
...many of those who have stood in line at the office on the Delta have had the privilege of speaking to him personally. Some few there are, however, who--getting the worst of a dispute with one of the clerks have stood upon their rights and appealed to Caesar. And these have invariably found the Bursar to be a very different person from what they had imagined, and discovered that the man who was spending five millions a year for the University was not without consideration for their smaller problems. So courteous was the treatment they received, that all wrath...
...flies, why did he not look for it among the "weaklings" of the armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance? Did the soldiers of Alexander or Caesar have to meet anything like the rigors of trench warfare? If the robust health of the American Expeditionary Force is a measure of the effects of pampering and hospitalization, the human race might profit from a more general application of such debilitating influences...