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...exhibit are many illustrations for the several parts of the "Life of Sir John Falstaff." With these are some of Cruikshank's well-known drawings, of which the ones of "Bluebeard," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" are notable...
Favorite character in fiction: d'Artagnan, 19; Tom Jones, 16; Falstaff...
...Falstaff is a comedy, compounded by James Plaisted Webber from Shakespearian scenes and others from his own imagination. In it there are many snatches of tune, lyrics by Brian Hooker, Falstaff's famed expose of "honor" and a false ending in which Prince' Hal bows to Anne Page and promises an annuity to Falstaff. Charles Coburn, blown up to a mountainous size, puffs prodigiously as the lecherous old knight who is robbed in a forest and dumped into the Thames from a laundry basket...
...Called to command, he found himself a sort of Falstaff reviewing the tatterdemalions of politics, not a few of them outcasts from the G. O. P. He looked again and discovered also in the loose and undisciplined Hoover ranks, in addition to half-ruined guerrillas that were beginning to pluck up hope, an assortment of poets, prophets, hymn singers, professional reformers, unclassified uplifters, novelists, Federal office holders, reformed bootleggers, Anti-Saloon League superintendents, society leaders, social climbers, lame ducks and efficiency experts. This would have dismayed an ordinary general. But Jim Good is not an ordinary general. He took hold...
...Merry Wives of Windsor. Having toured the provinces for several monfhs in their genial reincarnation of Mr. Shakespeare's somewhat fleshly comic strip, Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner brought their efforts to Broadway for a limited engagement. Nobody could deny that Mr. Skinner was a sly and waggish Falstaff, nor could anyone suggest to Mrs. Fiske that the time had come for her to retire. All in all, their performance was good enough to make it clear that Shakespeare, when played at all, ought to be played in modern clothes and that a little less roguishness and a little...