Word: might
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shrew" naturally gravitates towards Miss Marlowe, who, after threatened retirement from the stage, is this fall gratifying New York and Boston with another appearance in Shakespearean repertoire. The qualities which have gained her so many admirers, Miss Marlowe today exhibits as gloriously as in past years. One might charge that Katharina does not kick and stamp, box ears, and throw household furnishings with the vim that one expects of a celebrated virago. Miss Marlowe has, undoubtedly, given us a subdued characterization; when one has felt her subtle power to illuminate feminine irrationality, one does not regret the omission...
Shakespeare might be startled at the freedom employed in cutting. Some characters dear to the hearts of many are left out entirely, while scenes are re-arranged with audacity to meet the needs of the present production. But none of the action which has made this the longest lived English comedy has been sacrificed, with the result that the laughter rung form a modern audience may be, comparable, if not equal, to the mirth expressed by the pit in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...million-a-month magazine may get the best writers for its readers, but the University's twice-a-month periodical surely gets the best of Mr. Hearst's writers--gets them for good and plenty, as one might say. For with clever burlesque the Lampoon trails "Cosmo" with a deadly accuracy for the latter's winning weaknesses...
...front cover gives Lampy's trick number a very swift start. Instead of satirizing Mr. Harrison Fisher's illustrating as Bud-of-the-same-family-name might do, Mr. Gross has given a drawing that faithfully pretends to be the real thing. On the strength of its cover alone, Lampy could go on sale at all news-stands this week and hit the million circulation mark itself...
...Committee means only that Harvard establish universal service among its students, as an example and inspiration to the nation, the Committee might better have said so unambiguously. That would at least be a proper recommendation and profitably debatable. WILLIAM GORHAM RICE...