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...must bear the brunt. Reserved seats at theatres are on a special balck-list, and we know too well now the predilections of a certain friend in Boston who provides us with front row seats with an air of a charitable man. The galleries will probably come into their Elizabethan popularity again, and we shall learn to despise that vulgar place, the pit. Sleeping car reservations need hardly be mentioned. They follow along with all the other luxuries...
...dancing groups, and choruses with which the public has become more or less familiar in recent years. Percy MacKaye '97, the author of "Caliban," calls is a "masque," and it probably conforms more nearly in structure to the masque of Shakespere's day, which were produced by the great Elizabethan dramatists for special court occasions than anything that has been done since that time...
...there is much difference between this masque by Percy MacKaye and one of the Elizabethan masques by Ben Jonson. There will be 5,000 people in the cast of "Caliban"; the stage will be built on three levels; the scenic and lighting effects will be of the most artistic type; and the music will be of a character beautifully adapted to the theme and dramatic action...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Comparative Literature of $100 has been awarded to James Buell Munn '12, of New York, N. Y. The subject of Munn's essay was "The Development of Plot and Characterization in Early Greek and Early Elizabethan Tragedy, with Special Reference to the Works of Aeschylus and Marlowe." Munn is a fifth-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Hillyer's reverie on an Elizabethan May-Day is cleverly contrived, with its pleasant descriptions and its snatches of old songs. Some of the reflections in the earlier part have a modern sound, and are not altogether of a piece with the rest. But we are doubtless to understand that the speaker at the outset is Robert Hillyer, who is only gradually merged, in the course of the vision, into William Shakespere...