Word: ephesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great asset is Shakespeare's hoary plot about twin sets of masters and slaves, one set married, the other not, one set from Ephesus, the other from Syracuse, who get hold of the wrong latchkeys, land in the wrong boudoirs, mix everybody up, finally mix up themselves. But the plot is daffy enough to start the fun rolling. Once started, nothing can stop...
Robert Graham is excellent as Antipholus of Ephesus, but he still carries many of the pixilated mannerisms of his performance in "Brother Rat" along with him; Eddie Albert, the twin brother, is adequate and best when singing; Teddy Hart and Jimmy Save pall occasionally, but theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though...
...regular nine o'clock class over, he dawdles in the Farnsworth Room awhile, stops at the shelves that hold the priceless Arden Shakespeare and picks out "The Comedy of Errors". (His tutor played Antipholus of Ephesus in an amateur production of it once.) The Vagabond noses through half of the "Comedy" and compares it with the Elizabethan translation of Plautus's "Menochmi" (or "The Two Menechmuses' as some Elizabethans called it) which Shakespeare used in his play. The "Menochmi" is reprinted in Appendix B of the Arden edition. The Vagabond, if he had the money, would buy the Arden Shakespeare...
...attended as on Sunday, under pain of mortal sin. The underlying idea-that the body of Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven-is universally believed by Catholics. Yet its origin is lost in antiquity. Some say that Mary died at 69, others at 72 or 75. Jerusalem and Ephesus both claimed to have been her death place. How she died is not recorded, but theologians argue (in terms which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed...
...Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: "One is inclined to think that almost all Christians now have taken them for patron-saints." Joseph of Cupertino used to fly like a bat; his fellow-Franciscans were afraid of him but the common people adored him, and he could tell "whether or not they were immoral by the way they...