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George Arliss with subdued strength plays Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" this week at the Plymouth. He has throttled down the weeping and wildly gesticulating Shylocks to his own restrained taste. Moderation is born of the knowledge that orating Shylocks have long lain in the alley, that age's resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow...
...function for it to perform. During the last few years it has issued a number of reports on various matters of educational or social import. These reports have on the whole been capably handled and have been productive of much discussion and some practical results. Their chief weakness has lain in their over-ambitiousness. A complete system of educational reform drawn up by a Student Council committee may have much value in some of its individual provisions but as a whole it is liable to be impracticable and based on insufficient data. If, instead of reporting on education...
...that first provided for school courses in prohibition seems to have lain dormant in recent years. Perhaps when the nation took up the subject it was thought unnecessary to continue the study in schools. At all events, if it is true, as reported, that unofficial dry agents moved for its continuance, their pessimism must rival that of the man who were both suspenders and belt...
Came rumbling toward Westminster Abbey the battered gun carriage from which was fired the first British gun that boomed upon the continent of Europe at the opening of the World War. Upon that carriage had later lain the body of the British "Unknown Soldier" as it was borne to rest beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed...
...excavations of the village occupied four years, and was completed last-summer. Native Mexicans were hired to assist in the excavation of the specimens, which demanded great care in handling, since they had lain a long time in the arid soil and has become fragile...