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None of which, of course, has anything to do with the exhibits in Widener. It would be somewhat difficult to imagine one's self as Plato's "Republic", although not altogether imposible to acquire the philosophic poise of Plato himself. But for those rare spirits who revel in investigating anything old and original, today's collection will furnish a wild, almost immorally hilarious orgy...
Alexander Woollcott: "An innocent revel, pleasantly played, and quite excruciatingly unimportant...
...modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant Truth whom we have abandoned...
...panes and dishes, were set so a-rattle that a real earthquake was confidently expected. Although the director of the Weather Bureau tried to lay the blame upon some "subterranean disturbance," easier explanations are ready to hand. It might have been premonitory deviltry of the witches who held high revel last night. But an even more obvious explanation is the report on the "highest authority" that Senator Hiram Johnson is to be a candidate for the Republican Nomination in 1924. Certainly if California is the center of the universe, or at least of North America, disturbances are as likely...
...Night at Yard's", and "Ei Ukhnem" are unforgettably dramatic in their relation of Siavic feeling and character. An Anglo Saxon feels as embarrassed listening to the almost barbaric gypsy songs as if he were impersonating Ring Lardner's "wolf crawling into a bathroom window", but the Russians revel in them with genuine ecstasy and abandon. In "The Sudden Death of a Horse", one's ignorance of the language, which is an astonishingly slight handicap throughout, prevents any understanding of the dialogue, but the action to so vivid and the pantomime so unmistakable that one's appreciation becomes shockingly ribald...