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...important date in the development of Thomas Nast as an artist. That week Sir John Tenniel published a biting cartoon in Punch on the subject of the Alabama Claims* showing the U. S. as a bloated Falstaff demanding £400,000,000 from the bearded Prince of Wales, Edward VII, as the price of his love. Plump Tommy Nast raged at the subject, but admired the technique. A month later he replied with a full page in Harpers Weekly of an even fatter John Bull Falstaff, drawn in the same manner. In this adaptation of the Tenniel technique he thereafter...
...succinctly when he writes of Coleridge's diagnosis of the prince's irresolution: "In his own excess of thought over action he found the key to Hamlet's soul." And when he falls short of his customary excellence as a critic, as indeed he does in his estimate of Falstaff, the reason is still the same, that which his own nature lacked, in this case a real sense of humour...
...thinks that the system as a whole gets out of kilter over a long period of time. It gets so that it cannot manage itself with normal efficiency. Along comes an irritation which disables one of its parts, say the breast. The body hastily drafts its defense forces. Like Falstaff's paltry men, they are unhealthy, poorly armed. They scurry to the site of the injury, stumble hither and thither, heedless of leadership, out of control - Cancer...
Professor Brooke's scholarly paraphernalia is adequate and thorough as was to be expected from so expert a commentator. Some space might have been found for a discussion of Shakspere's relation to Lyly--not in the 'Pinch him' song of Falstaff's malaise where the comment suffices, but in the 'Hark! Hark! the lark' aubade from Cymbeline. The gloss ignores Trico's song in Campaspe...
...could sing. He studied with Frank La Forge in Manhattan, served in the Navy, married, got a job with the Metropolitan Opera Company. One night in 1925 an odd thing happened to him. He was sitting in his dressing room after the second act of Verdi's Falstaff-his aria, "E sogno," had ended the act. He heard the house applauding but thought they wanted the Falstaff-Antonio Scotti. The call boy said it was for him and as he hurried back he could hear them shouting his name. For the first time a U. S. singer, relatively obscure...