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Happily for the audience, the low comedy scenes are far and away the most successful phase of the current production. In this play they are more than a mere concession to the groundlings; they are the height of Shakespeare's achievement in slapstick comedy. There is much room left for comic interpretation, and the H. D. C. makes the most of its freedom. At least the Pit at Fogg Court thought...
This college draft deferment business reaches the height of nauseating absurdity when one looks at photos of thousands of able bodied young men rushing to avoid serving their country. The hokum that this is "deferment" not exemption, falls apart when one think of that long, long campus project known as graduate studies. How long that may go on is anybody's guess! You get deferred now, you take graduate studies when you finish, and then you are 26. Nice soft life! And how much the effete snobs with white canvas shoes need that elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk...
Taking these figures into account, and reckoning the average New Yorker as being two feet wide and one foot deep (height no object, we discovered the following interesting statistics...
Assuming a generous average building height of 20 stories, and 15 windows per floor per block, this means that an average of 25 people were at every window to watch general pass. Of course, while the parade was moving along the East River Drive, there were only buildings on one side, so that each window has to serve 50 spectators. As for Central Park where there are no buildings, the only possibility is that New Yorkers were crowded 100 deep and shoulder to shoulder along each side of the route...
Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer...