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Died. Edward Hugh Sothern, 73, retired Shakespearean actor, husband of Actress Julia Marlowe; of pneumonia; in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1885 Daniel Frohman spotted him playing in Mona, took him into the Lyceum Stock Company where he became leading man and married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired...
...always tell a Harvard man, so goes the old adage, but you cannot tell him much. For true erudition of this variety, Professor Kittredge knows no poor. Not long ago the noted Shakespearean scholar was attending a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Behind him, in Row J, Seat 15, sat an elderly lady; the very model of a Savoyard aunt or mother-in-law; one whom time had passed by in its fast flight, and left in the twilight of bygone days, a little unknowing. After the first act, she remarked to her companion, "It is lovely...
...difference between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42a and 42b is, for the average honors candidate in English, inconsequential. The latter discusses pre-Shakespearean literature, devoting two or three weeks to Chaucer. The former spends most of its time on Chaucer, with detail of his grammar and allusion, and adds about a month (Fridays during the second half) for reviewing other Middle English writers. Although required only for honors candidates, either of the courses presumably gives enough information for an answer to the first Divisional question. For this reason, both are large courses...
...story starts in Scrooby, in Shakespearean times, when William Brewster, lord of the manor, first listened to the Brownists preach of a God whom the Church of England failed to recognize. After a stormy career at court Brewster retired to his country home, became the mainstay of what was regarded as a rabid sect. Among these were Eleazar Dexter and his younger brother John who, though saints of a kind, still thought enough of the devil to fall in love. Both loved the same girl, but in different ways. Eleazar was a religious bigot who loved Anne in order...
...open the "ugly, big, heavy, bare,forbidding red brick factory," Edward of Wales arrived by plane, was announced by a Shakespearean blare of trumpets. He unlocked the doors with a golden key. Mr. Mellon unfurled the Stars & Stripes, H. R. H. the King's flag...