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Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
...tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust Co., in Newark. Last fortnight Feigenspan thought they had received the sure winner in this category: Russell C. Speck's 25½ ouncer, caught off Monnosquan, N. J. The Trust Co. sent the tuna to a nearby tavern to be put on ice. Then, suddenly it disappeared. Sportsmanlike Mr. Feigenspan, however, announced that angler Speck would get the $100 if no smaller tuna were caught before Oct. 31. Last week the Feigenspan employe in charge of contest entries returned from his vacation, a trifle surprised...
...When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed up two cards like himself for the front row- Stanley Fritts, who could play the trombone and drums and specialized in getting tunes...
...with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...Chicago, Henry Cosgrove, WPA worker, parked his steam roller at the curb while he stepped into a tavern. When he stepped out 20 minutes later, someone had stolen his steam roller...