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...there is some merit in the idea. Surely Falstaff or Malvolio should be able to wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm...
...touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...scenery, designed in the modern manner especially for this revival, is rich in pictorial and suggestive effect, and comprises eleven different scenes. The players, numbering more than forty, were coached by Professor Richard Ordynski and Mr. Everett Glass. The leading characters of Falstaff, the King, and Prince Hal are played by C. B. Wetherell '08, F. A. Wilmot '10, and S. Hume '13, respectively, in a way that bears comparison with professional acting...
...Society has achieved. It is not merely that it is "wonderfully good for undergraduates"; it is, without any allowances, an illuminating and delightful entertainment. One seldom hears Shakespere's lines read more effectively and more beautifully than by Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Hume, and Mr. Wetherell's Falstaff is something to remember. Further, Mr. Weston's designs for the stage are not merely adequate; they are things of real beauty...
...described as a human donkey, one in whom the true relation of the parts of the character is hopelessly impaired by an inordinate self-conceit. Toby Belch, on the other hand, possesses a certain amount of wit and good humor which make him not unlike the famous Falstaff...