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Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...Isle of Samothrace, went to Atlantic City at 19 because his brother was a hotel waiter there. No foreigner is 32-year-old Paul Jones of Pottstown, Pa., whose permanent display, The Spirit of Atlantic City, presents boardwalkers with a view of Neptune taking a good look at a mermaid...
From the shop of Benveuto Cellini, 16th century Italian artist, there is shown the world-famous "Mermaid" pendant in gold, with baroque pearls, rubies, and enamel, made by Cellini for the Medici family and now in the possession of Lord Duveen...
...contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship...
...candidate will come to know the inner workings of the College's many departments. He will learn that Peabody Museum still treasures a mermaid that was once the possession of the great Barnum. He will discover, if he can, why the Fogg Art Museum is going to sponsor a performance of "Murder In The Cathedral", and what possible relation this-may bear to the recently published "Harvard Has A Homicide". He will view the dim recesses of University Hall where student's lives are made and broken...