Word: courtiers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though his part was considerably shortened it still gave Mr. Peters opportunity to present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...
...next year's University sextet. Captain M. Duane has been starring for his team all the season and is the largest point-win- ner on the squad. At St. George's School, where he prepared for college, he was the outstanding player. J. D. Farnham is another fast courtier who has accounted for many of the team's high scores this year, and was the mainstay of the Exeter sextet last year. A. D. Knox, who during the first of the season was a strong member of the team, but has since been prevented from playing outside matches by academic...