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...Cadenhead's interpretation of the bombastic Bottom is certainly the most uproarious part of the play. Frequently abetted by John Benedict, Alan Purves, and a Basset Hound named Figaro, he minces, roars, seduces the fairies, and generally manages to keep the comedy on a superbly low level...
That was the last human sound for minutes. All other members of the senate responded by barking; some cried "arf," some cried "woof," and others imitated the long-drawn bugling of the redbone hound. After the last legislative yip, the presiding officer quickly ruled that the bill had passed unanimously...
Betsy falls in love with Young, but she is disturbed by reminders of his dead wife, and even more by the misfortunes that hound him: his horse is mysteriously crippled, his dog killed, his rosebush poisoned, his favorite painting bleached and, finally, his house burned to a crisp. A kindly doctor warns Betsy that Young is a dangerous paranoiac with a yen for damaging his own property, and even Young urges her to stay away. But she sticks by him right to the psychiatricky finish...
...himself is a wide-eyed, naive little possum, and his pals include a raffish, cigar-smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers/ While the parsley was parceling the peas...
...traits the judges sought were hunting ability (eagerness to pick up the trail); trailing, once the scent had been found; speed, drive and endurance which sometimes call for a hound to cover 35 miles in a five-hour test. By the third day of the meeting the judges had eliminated all but 100 hounds. Of these, two hounds seemed head & shoulders above the pack: Meggs White Girl, owned by Farmer J. W. Meggs of Marshville, N.C., and Dr. Luke, owned by Farmer R. B. Murphy of Bahama...