Word: cleopatras
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Caesar and Cleopatra. The most heavily padded entrance of the season has been made. When the uproar of applause was past, the impression began to soak in that the tumult over the first play in the new Guild Theatre was a trifle premature...
These last merited superlatives are a lenient to the above protest, in the interests of truth, against eulogies of the Theatre Guild that have become a fixed habit. Caesar and Cleopatra is a brilliant entertainment; but, had it been produced by Lee Shubert, it would not have been equally eulogized...
...chip of the old block," folk say of Pitt, the son of Pitt, of Dumas fils, of the young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities? The distaff side seems never to have been illustrious...
...Appleknockers," are the Law School cycle aces. Each pair possesses a two-seated machine and have proclaimed their proficiency in the sport by issuing a challenge to all comers. An undergraduate duet, who withhold their names for the present, have accepted the offer under the title of "Authony and Cleopatra," and have began rigorous training...
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...