Word: hermia
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Missing is its air of fairyland, all but missing its marvelous moon-drenched poetry. But largely missing too are Hermia and Helena and their supporting cast of bores. What remains are the comic ad-ventures of Bottom and his fellow bumpkins, culminating in the uproarious production of Pyramus & Thisbe before the Duke. To many in the first-night audience, Shakespeare seemed almost as good as Billy Rose's Aquacade...
BECAUSE of David a great many things happened in London one day recently. But for him, Gladys, the stenographer, could not have met Mr. Johnson, and the Paddington Murder Case would have remained unsolved. But for David, Lord Midhurst would not have escaped from Mr. Fink's clutches. Lady Hermia Medmenham, Mr. and Mrs. Rivington, Mr. Gawthorne (the author has a genius for names), and scores of other people would have gone on in a very pleasant rut,--but for David...