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...farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help or hinder the audience into a feeling that they are being educated instead...
...time with her drugs. In fact the very Pollyanna of snow birds, now singing, now clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some of the sting out of the current Hearst expose of the narcotic evil. A good antidote and counterblast for the meretricious pity and terror inspired by such dope plays as Morphia and Seventh Heaven...
...insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June-bug to sting the Athenians into action
...year, Strickler and Kirby of Cornell, Burke of the University, Douglas of Yale, and Crawford of Lafayette are capable of furnishing stiff competition. There is almost certain to be a close battle between Burke and Douglas, for the Yale miler will come to Cambridge intent upon wiping out the sting of his defeat in the dual meet...
...fall, when Wally Trumbull expressed so cloquently his opinion on the undergraduate attitude. It will take a lot more spirit than has been shown in Cambridge since the war to drive the eleven through it stiff early season games to victory over Princeton and Yale, and to efface the sting of Jimmy Knox's "atrocious indifference...