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...Boston theatre season that has known little but the light trip of the sock, there comes this week the measured tread of buskined feet upon the boards. Maurice Evans returns, for a limited engagement, in what is perhaps the most lyrical of Shakespeare's historical dramas, "King Richard II." The modern theatre-goer can only be fascinated by this tragedy of a man too weak for an age of strength, and watch with envy the grandeur and buoyant optimism not found in the sordidness of the twentieth century...
...Buskin & Sock...
...study of drama, I find the buskin, or boot, signifies a tragedy; and the sock, similar to a light moccasin, denotes a comedy...
...buskin for The Man Who Came to Dinner? (TIME, Feb. 19.) Here in Chicago Clifton Webb pulled on the sock, a happier choice. Perhaps the late Town Crier should have thrice refused the part...
...Jonson's learned Sock...