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...Hotspur." As a crusade-loving Attorney General who usually tired of his crusades in a week or two, Roy McKittrick has been savagely caricatured by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's brilliant Cartoonist Dan Fitzpatrick as a fireman charging off to a dozen infernos at one time. Editorially, the Post-Dispatch habitually referred to him as "Hotspur" -until it decided to support him in this campaign. Roy McKittrick has always referred to himself as "just a country...
...flying from front to front to keep in touch with his vast command. He is physically tough, and rides, plays golf, goes swimming even when crises are thickest. His calm is unshatterable, he can be hurried by no man. He is sociable but completely unaffected, and loves to quote Hotspur's contemptuous speech about popinjay staff officers who shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, and talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, of guns and drums and wounds. His blood runs thick with soldiery: his first ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror...
...hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery by discovering that poetry can be better than beautiful; Hotspur, who hates poetry, is a fine poet "out of a hot love far nothing except reality and hard sense...
...Trip to Shrewsbury. See Hotspur killed...
James Morcom's idea of a Fourteenth Century castle looks like a clapboarded New England barn, and his revolving set often does not fit the scene, sequences. Millia Davenport's costumes never get beyond the phony chain-mail stage, and her costume for Hotspur's wife in the first act is one of the most atrocious bits of ugly design to appear for some time...