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...business of the second act is occupied with a modernized version of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," the burlesque taking its name from the fact that Shylock takes a mortgage on Antonio's fattest calf instead of the conventional pound of flesh. Portia's defense is grounded on the claim that the calf cannot be moved without a permit from the board of health, on account of the prevalence of the hoof and mouth disease. While Shylock is debating this phase of the case the frantic manager comes rushing down the aisle declaring that the train leaves in 10 minutes...
...cast of characters for the Hasty Pudding Club's annual play, "The Fattest Calf," has been picked as follows: Baggageman, P. B. Kurtz '16 Sadie, a lunch counter girl, J. P. Spang, Jr., '15 A. Drummer, R. Cutler '16 A. Hobo, D. R. Sigourney '15 Station Agent, Harold Amory '16 Manager, R. P. Baldwin '16 Steve, J. S. N. Sprague '16 Bassanio, C. F. Farrington '16 Shylock, J. S. N. Sprague '16 Antonio, D. R. Sigourney '15 Portia, F. S. Allen '16 Duke, R. Cutler '16 Othello, W. T. S. Thorndike '16 Jurors, J. Harper '16 F. Brooks '15 Clerk...
This year's annual theatrical production of the Hasty Pudding Club will be the musical comedy, "The Fattest Calf." The book is by J. A. Richards '15 and D. C. Josephs '15, the lyrics by C. A. Herter '15, and the music by H. H. Meyer '15 and F. vanS. Hyde...
...Hunt's "Autumn" gathers pleasingly a bunch of characteristic detail. The author's sense of smell seems to be exceptionally acute. Most of us would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing in the issue. Mr. Alfred, Noyes's "The Flowers...
...John B. Gerrish '71, of New York, the library has received an edition of Colley Cibber's Works, in 5 volumes, published in 1736, a very handsome edition of George Meredith, in 32 volumes, and a superb edition of Fielding, printed in 11 volumes and bound in tree calf. The Deutscher Verein has given complete sets of the works of Schiller, Lessing and Goethe, in 10, 16 and 40 volumes respectively. These sets are in the German text...