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Naturally, with the emphasis, as it is, on a novel setting, much of the success of the show depends on the realism of its staging. While latitude is graciously granted a Shakespearian company in dealing with the setting of a drama which has a twelfth century background, so commonplace a mode of transportation as an underground railway must come up to scratch in every way. It must be said, to the credit of the producers of the "Subway Express", that they have managed this feature of their presentation eminently satisfactorily...
...players, who during the past week have appeared at the Hollis Theatre in "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", and other plays, will inspect the Shakespearian relics and other dramatic treasures which the Memorial Room houses...
...Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California, tall Shakespearian scholar, onetime actor, chairman. Said Mr. Shortridge: "We shall treat everybody alike? the tramp and the millionaire. We care not whether he be clothed in rags or purple and fine linen...
Miss Cowl expressed pride in the fact that she holds two Shakespearian records: first for the most performances of any Shakespearian role, which she holds as a result of 698 performances of Juliet; and second, for the presentation of Juliet seven times a week a thing which she did frequently but which no other actress has ever attempted because of the physical and emotional strain of the role...
Falstaff is a comedy, compounded by James Plaisted Webber from Shakespearian scenes and others from his own imagination. In it there are many snatches of tune, lyrics by Brian Hooker, Falstaff's famed expose of "honor" and a false ending in which Prince' Hal bows to Anne Page and promises an annuity to Falstaff. Charles Coburn, blown up to a mountainous size, puffs prodigiously as the lecherous old knight who is robbed in a forest and dumped into the Thames from a laundry basket...