Word: calibans
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...Ariel's as true as Caliban...
Sentence (6) impulsively reassumes a satirical tone, but inasmuch as the preceding description has not been made convincingly inhuman enough, Hillyer's conclusion has a fatuous unearned air, lacking inevitability. The final line projects certain rhyming dexterity, although what it implies is that if Ariel is as true as Caliban then Caliban is as true as Ariel, a conclusion counter to all the previous satirical trend...
Although many spikes and cleats have done their obliterative best, the Stadium has not quite lost the touch of a buskined foot. The Joan of Arc of Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced...
...Caliban of the Pawn Shop", a one act comedy by W.W. Howells '30, of the drama group in English A, has been accepted for the stage by the dramatic committee of Boston Settlement Houses. The play will be produced some time in the near future...
Died. W. L. (Walther Lionel) George, 44, famed English novelist of the "Georgian" school (Caliban, Ursula, Trent, A Bed of Roses, The Story of Woman, etc.), for several years signator with his third wife of a saccharine U. S. syndicated "column" dealing with sex problems; in London, of pneumonia...