Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good one, and, like all ingenious fables, permits of international variation. The German version is that my name is Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story is that I am a Greek named Philipso, emigrated to America, a great musician; carried my worldly possessions in a box marked...
...Here amid great natural beauty, the picnic in "Pickwick" will be duplicated in the open air theatre on the spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...
...Harvard students seem trifling. From the foundation of the college to about five years ago the normal system of feeding the students was by a common table. For many years there was no other possibility inasmuch as the students were too numerous to be absorbed into private families. Sam Batchelder has shown us that for two hundred years there was a college commons and likewise a state of war between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons was on the ground floor of Massachusetts, and the pig stys were under...
...correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding as it saw Sam Weller, boots in hand, in amorous discourse with Betsy, the chambermaid. And Sam and Betsy proved to be no less accurately recreated than the other characters who form the genial frame to the Pickwick Club...
...imposing task of collaborating on, producing, and costuming the play, and it more than justifies its choice. The very attitudes and gestures are reminiscent of the Phiz illustrations. Particular laurels and bays are due to Mr. Cumberland for a fine, well-rounded Pickwick; to Mr. McNaughton for his tireless Sam Weller, a rich part richly played; and to Mr. Miller for his melodramatic Alfred Jingle. The ladies are adequate and pleasant to look upon, but are necessarly subordinated to the gallant masculinity of the Pickwick Club. It is a man's evening and above all it is Mr. Dickens' evening...