Word: violas
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...William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration to the difficult role of pompous Major Domo Malvolio...
...Chicago Music Festival, and was secured for the Harvard Concert through the courtesy of Mrs. Frederick S. Coolidge. Miss Cohen, an Englishwoman, is touring the United States this year with the quartet, which is composed of Antonio Brosa, first violin; David Wise, second violin; Leonard Rubens, viola; and Anthony Pini, violincello...
Happily, the second act was much better. Miss Cowl as Viola strode about very bravely, and even if she did wave her hands about with her usual abandon, she was very pleasant. It is true that she was a thoroughly feminine Cesario, but she is so accomplished an actress that the distortion was unnoticed. Maria as played by Jessie Ralph was happily an oldish and slightly vulgar wench, and hence a very fitting companion for the raucous Sir Toby...
...minor refinements salubriously included in this production was a softening of the very sudden affection of Sebastian for the lovely Olivia. The picture of Olivia given to Viola is left upon a bench by that dissembling young lady from whence it is picked up by Sebastian and immediately the beauty of that lady (Olivia) arouses obvious amorous feelings. After this display of sighs and the attending languishing looks, what follows does not seem quite so impossible...
...Against his will he takes part in the coronation of George V. and Queen Mary, and during its wearisome ceremonies feels that his career as an individual is ended, his career as a peer commenced. Then outside the Abbey he abruptly encounters Anquetil, returned from the jungle to marry Viola on the strength of a six-year correspondence. Anquetil renews his invitation for an exploring expedition. Sebastian accepts. The story ends with an intimation that under the new monarch will come new manners, and the brilliant, flighty society that Sebastian is renouncing has nearly run its course...