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...Scales and the Sword" deals with the conflict between the selfish interest represented by an extortionate suburban grocer, and the social interest, represented by refugees driven from their homes by a great city fire...
...casts follow: "The Scales and the Sword." "The Scales and the Sword," a social drama in one act, by F. Bishop 2G.: John Alloway, a grocer, W. C. Woodward '12 Ed. Allen, his clerk, J. K. Hodges '14 Dwight Gilmore, attorney at law, K. W. Snyder '14 A Librarian, A. M. Hay '14 A Newsboy, A. A. Berle, Jr., '13 Bill, L. O. Schwab '14 A Drummer, J. W. Boyd 2G. A Mechanic, R. D. Whittemore '13 John, F. M. Totten '12 An Old Irishwoman, Miss Adelia Borden John's Wife, Miss Mary Cooper Another Woman, Miss Caroline Dudley...
...Scales and the Sword," by Farnham Bishop, graduate student, is set in a small grocer's shop on the day of a great fire which upsets the social order of a vast city. It is the tragedy of individual blind selfishness and cupidity shattered against relentless martial...
...books and readers are characteristically close, and where every person is under suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary, the intruding student is apt to wish that his taste for the finer courtesies had been better adapted to this new environment in the Reading Room at Gore Hall...
Ralph appears in the next scene as a grocer, Don Quixote, the Knight of the Burning Pestle. His master, the citizen, who directs his performance, furnishes him with various wonderful adventures, in all of which he comes to grief. He attempts to assist Humphrey in his love affairs, but is also unsuccessful in that respect, as Jasper wins Luce by having himself carried as dead to Venturewell, by whom he is immediately sent to his daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When...