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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1916.
ANOTHER TERCENTENARY.
Study Food Values
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What Statesman's Files I T W E L F T H NIGHT
Tell of Years Ago
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A PAID DEPARTMENT NEEDED.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
Dinted are: Executive com-
James, A. W Terrell,
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IXO YD P. LOCHRIDGE.
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PLAYED IN OPEN
PLEASES CROWD
Miss Helen Halbert of Corsicang is
visiting Mrs. Morris, 100 Wesi Peach
Street-
By the way, have you penned the dandelions,
paited the Iswn, dug the chiekens end attended
to other important detailst
Egotism goes a long ways in some caeca these
days, in taking the place of ability, especially to
polities.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY.
April 25. I836.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO,
New York
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The country needs a larger army, more ships,
better coast defenses, but we shall probabl have
to begin by getting a new Congress.
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CHICAGO, April t»._A Chi- i
Cago alderman who does not ♦
pretend to be a "Shakespearean •
scholar,” but who asserts the •
decision of a Chicago court that 4
Bacon wrote tbs Shakespearean •
works, has shown that the fa- ' ♦
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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
ard nusrss
Ban Francisco- ft is announced that
the rate war in passenger tiekc-e rom
Ban Francisco to Chicago, St. Loouis
and other points has been concluded.
Tickets are now back at their normal
price, whch is more than twice as
much as hAd been paid during the
course of the ticket cutting war.
San Antonlo-ver a million pounds
of wool have peen received here and
prepared for market, but there is kitila
sale at this time. Only a few clips
have been sold.
Palestine—Arrests are still being
made of strikers who have been trying
to damage property and prevent oper-
ation of railroad trams bulb In and
out of this city.
Ex-Governor Colquitt opens his cam-
paign for the United States Senate
today at Vernon. Those who know the
ex-Governor will not nee dto be told
that whatever is in his mind will be
spoken. That is the way of the genial
but doughty aspirant for a toga.—Waco
Tribune.
Cincinnati- High water stage here is
59 feet and the river is still rising. It
is impossible to estimate the Idas of
life and property loss in many places
the water is up to the second story
wiadows
To the Voters of Austin:
An election will be held on Thursday, April 27th, to deter-
mine whether or not the present volunteer fire department is
to be succeeded by a paid department.
The. undersigned, charged with the responsibility of ad-
vising with the public upon important municipal matters, deem
it their duty to urge the voters of Austin to vote for a paid fire
department, and here give a few reasons for urging them so
to do.
Experience everywhere shows that when a city reaches the
size of Austin, fire fighting becomes an important, difficult and
necessary profession, to be followed by specially selected and
trained men, who give their whole time to the business. Such
trained men, in the way of saving lives and property, always
get the best results.
A paid fire department is also not only more efficient than
a volunteer fire department, but it is more economical, not only
more economical in its better preservation of life and property,
but in fire insurance premiums saved. The fire premium rates
of a city are by law based chiefly upon the organization and
equipment of that city’a fire department. At present the fire
key rate of Austin is much the highest of all the cities of its
class in Texas. It is 27 cents on the $100.00 of insurance car-
ried. Should Austin vote a paid fire department on Thursday
next, the key rate of this city will at once be reduced by three
cents. This means a saving of more than 16000.00 annually to
our property owners. If our key rate were as low as that of
Dallas or San Antonio, and it can in time be made so, we wold
have our key rate cut down to 17 cents, and this would mean to
us a saving in premiums of more than $12,500.00 annually.
The purpose of the City Council, if the paid fire depart-
ment is vted, is to maintain its present motor apparatus and
at once add two paid men to each piece of horse-drawn'appa-
ratus. Later, more men will be placed with some companies
and more motordriven apparatus will from time to time be
added to our present equipment. We assure the citizens of
Austin that this city is but poorly equipped to fight a great
fire. What voter of Austin could forgive his indifference should
a great conflagration like that at Paris come to Austin and its
devastation prove to have been aggravated by the want of a
• well-organized and a well-equipped fire department!
No bonds will need to be voted, nor will Uses need to be
Increased to better organize and equip our paid fire depart-
ment.
The volunteer fire. department of Austin has had a long ca v
reer of honorable and efficient service, for which our people
are grateful; but the time has come, as we strongly believe tog
convert our volunteer into a paid fire department. ’ A
For the above and other good reasons, we urge our vote?
especially the members of our volunteer fire department t30
come out and vote for a paid fire department on Thursday next
mittees appo
mittee, Gov
iyers, Joe Lee
Thomas Scurry.
Committees have been appointed by
Governor Sayers and Mayor R. E.
White to prepare for the visit of Pres-
ident McKinley to this city soon. Com.
Dr. J P. Blount of Denton has an-
nounced for the State Senate from that
district and no doubt will reecive th®
nomination in the July primary. Dr. J
Blount is one of the prominent me*
of North Texas, his prominence ha W
been attained through his ability as B
physician, and later by his demonstratgg
ed worth as a public spfrted ctzelP
and busness man. It would be wor‘
much to the State of Texas nt lar K
if every district in the State could ‘Er
so fortunate as to have such a mazn
represent It in the Legislature-Karra 29
emvIUe Times.
On Thursday of thia week the voters of Austin
will register their decision upon the question
whether or not the city shall abandon its time-
honored volunteer fire department in favor of a
paid department. And yet the worda do not ac-
curately state the caac. Austin did have a vol-
unteer fire department—it was organized way
back in the fifties and baa an excellent record for
efficient and patriotic service—but interest among
the volunteers has waned until nowadays com-
paratively few of them actually respond to the
alarm of fire. It was probably a safe statement
to say that most of the fire fighting today is done
by the paid crews of the three pieces of motor
driven apparatus. So thst what the City Coun-
cil is really asking the voters to do is to tske
cognizance ot s condition thst already exists—
namely, that the volunteer department is no longer
as active aa in the past— and to authorise the de-
yalepment of another system of fire protection to
take ita place.
We think that a majority of the volunteers them-
selves are swsk* to the true situation, and that
they will vote for a paid department. Thia is in-
dicated by the recent disbanding of one of the
volunteer companies, East Austin, with the state-
ment of its leaders thst the time is ripe for s new
order of things. The volunteers and many others
will witness the change with regret, for the tra-
ditions of the old deportment are dear and its
social features are a part of the memory of ita
members and of the town. But the men who were
the life of th* old department are no longer active
end in many caaea they have moved away from
the ward where they answered the fire bell; many,
indeed, have left the city or are no longer among
the living.
Aa for the social features, there does not appear
to be any good reason why these can not be kept
alive, after the establishment of a paid department,
aa long aa the members may desire. The halls are
there, and nobody would deny the veterans the use
of them in the future aa in the past.
No one will deny, after the Paris conflagration,
thst Austin should have as effective s force of
fire fighters as can be conveniently provided. It
should be a department with one head and strictly
under the control of the city government. The
Mayor tells us thst the money is in hand to make
such changes aa are contemplated for the immedi-
ate future. In fact, such a paid department as
■hall have six months after the change will not
cost the taxpayers any more than the present de-
partment does. With the additions that will come
from year to year, the cost of equipment and
maintenance will of course grow. But the city
itself will be growing meantime, and the people
will be willing to psy what is reasonably necessary
to insure adequate protection.
One or two of the present companies will be dis-
continued, and, two additional paid men will be
stationed st each of.the other stations where horse-
drawn apparatus is used. Within a few months,
most likely, a new pumper, to cost several thou-
sand dollars, will be added to th* present equip-
ment. A paid chief will at once be put in charge
of the department, and he ought to.be able to in-
troduce such methods and discipline as will make
the department effective from the start.
Let every man go tri the polls and vote, what-
ever his convictions on th* subject.
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A big live Russian bear hss com* to Tok io ss a
gift and tribute to Premier Count Okums, sent
ffom the office of the Russian volunteer fleet st
Vladivostok. Th* Premier sent the animal to the
Zoological Garden, which is one of the best in th*
Always, whan the old kins returned
rtorn one of his queer disappearances,
he knew strang things that- he was
not meant to know. He knew exactly
who were his friends. for instance, and
who were not; he knew who was plot-
tin* against him—in short, he knew so
many snatches of conversation that
had been absolutely private that people
marveled
"It is my notion,” said a soldier to
the guard, "that when th® king enters
yonder room he leaves it again in dis-
guise and mingles with his subjects to
Iearn their secrets of like and dislike."
And in this heguessed nearer than he
knew.
So the mystery of the closed room
stood when Prince Edor of the neigh-,
bor kingdom came to woo the princess,
and found the old king's brow as blak
for him as the beautiful princess'
smile was bright with welcome.
"Prince Edor," said the old king. "I
have no friendiiness for thee or thine.
Barely a month back thy father had
planned to corrupt my people into dis-
content and take the kingdom for his
own by means of a powerful army. Nay
do not stare and wonder how I know
"Tis enough that I do know. I have
ways and means you little guess. If
you would have a wife, you must look
further.”
•vrmor Sa;
mous berd haa "put one over" 4
for 300 years, will introduce a 4
Mil in the City Council tomor- ♦
row in an effort to give to ♦
Hagon "some of the honor due ♦
him. The proposed ordinance ♦
geK8 to change the name of ♦
Shakespenre venue an the •
Shakespeare Avenue police Ha- 4
tion to Hacon Avenue and Bacon 4
police station.
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GOOD NIGHT STORIES
By Leona Dalrymple
Author of Dians of the Green Van. etc.
PAPER DKLIVERX. , .. , L
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MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ai the Taylor Fair, Captain T. F.
MitcheH of Austin secured the red
rikbog tor his famous stallion
Tho opening night of the festival for
St. David’s Church will be managed
by Mrs. James L While. Mrs. Joe H.
Stewart, Mrs. M T. Morris. The prin-
cipal feature will be the production of
a three-act comedy, "The 8pirit of ’71.
or, the Coming Woman." The follow-
ing is the cast Mr Will E. Booth, Mr
O. Psher:, Mira Lilly kiollingsworth.
Miss Julia Calhoun, Mrs. J L. White,
Mr. Isaac Melasky.
R W. Vining, aged 78 years, died
yesterday at th® home of his son. Will
L Vining. * •
Ho has always been a moral man "s
his father was a Methodist minister, w
He proposes to give the State a busi- B
ness administration and lays part jo- B
ular stress on the pledge to "reduce ■
taxes” if he is elected. It is for the A
people to say whether or not he shaPW
succeed Ferguson. Whether or not the "
Democrati precedent of two terms
shall be denied the present incumbnt,
and that in' the face of the fact that
he has not been guilty of any im-
peachable conduct. Charley Morris is
a clean man and a successful business
man, but no man has yet been strong
enough to break into the Governor’s ’
office by pushing out a first-termer.— J
Corsicana Sun.
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Mahers. _________________________
W. L. Prather. D. A. McFall, K. Tay-
lor, T. W. Gregory. Ham Harlan, J. W.
Hooper. Senate committee, J- B. Dib-
roll of Seguin (chairman), W. A. Han-
ger of Fort Worth (vice chairman),
commnittee to entertain ladies of presi-
dentist party, Jeff: D. McLemore
(chairman.) John D. McCall. Asher Q.
Smoot. R. E. L. Saner, Georg® Walker,
Will Thornton, W. U. Rchardson;
press committee, L. A. Petit (chair-
man). George W. McDonald, George
M and e 11. W. D. Hornaday. Julius
Schutze, James Hays Quarles, Ed New.
ton. Tom Finty, F A. Scott, Henry’
Hutchings, Bouldin Rector. H H Shel-
ton. Jack Fernandes, Major W M
H pence; reception, Col. A; W. Terrell,
(chairman); finance, Walter Tips
(chairman). Ira R. Evans. A. J. Eilers:
transportation, P. J. Lawless (carr-
man). A. N. Leitnaker, G Waldo. XW.
R Smith, decoration. E M. Scarbrough
(chairman), C F. Drake, H. C. Pat-
terson.
Nervous indigestion.
Mrs. J. F. Baldwin Randy Creek. N
Y. suffered a great deal from pains in
the stomach due to nervous indigestion
She writes, "Chamberlain's Tablet® re-
lieved me right away, and by taking
three or four bottles of them I was
cured of the trouble and have not feif
any of the old symptoms since." Ob-
tainabie everywhere.
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Council Calls Attention 6
To Election Thursday |
The following address, urging the voters to turn out and , I
cast their ballots for a paid fire department, has been issued I
by Mayor A. P. Wooldridge and Councilmen Anthony, Bar-
tholomew, Haynes and Powell:
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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April 25, 1901.
Manila—Officer® numbering 115 and
2157 bolo men have surrendered and
swornallegiance to the United States
ut Narvacan, according to reports re-
ceived here.
"Honored king* said ths young
princa, "truth there may be in what
you say, but that is past Since the
golden day I saw Princess Ena riding
in the forest I have persuaded my
father to kindlier things. He will
promise peace and aid if I may but
wed the princess, whose smile is love-
lier to me than the mingled perfume
of all flowers!”
"There is another prince,” said the
stubborn old king, "who likes her full
as well, and I like him better.”
The prince implored and the princess
wept and pleaded. Moreover, the prince
refused to leave the kingdom, and then
a terrible thing happened.
Prince Edor disappeared!
Some said he had gone to the castle
to see the king of his own accord,
some said he had been invited—but all
agreed that the old king had taken
hi mto the lighted room of mystery
in the royal suite. He had never re-
turned.
And now excitement blazed wildly
through the length and breadth of two
kingdoms. Messengers came riding
from the prince's father, demanding
news of young Prince Edor—quite in
vain. The old king stubbornly refused
to eee them. So the two kingdoms
came to war.
DISCOVER WOMEN
OF FASHION NEED
PECULIAR REVELS
—
ST. LOUIS. Mo. April 25.—Storles ot
revelry in which young girls and young
men from fashionable sections of St
Louis nungird with those of thev slum®
are beina unraveled by the piolice it
their investigation into the murder yes
terday of Mrs. Anna McGillicuddy. th:
wife of John J. MeGiilicudy (Cuddy
Mack),- St. Louis politician, in a resort .
liere. The woman and three men are
being held.
Names of girls, with teleghone num - ;
tiers, were found in a cupboard. Th©
list included resident a of fashionable ‘
Cistriets. Persons living nearby h©
elare the rebort haa been the scene’of |
many revela to which particpants
would go in expensive autemobiles. ।
While a number of policement werel
inquiring at th® addresses found in the;
house, others were seeking for Emil |
Laufer, a bartender with several
aliases, said to have been seen in the
resort with a revolver in his hand1
shortly after Mrs. McGillcudy had.
been shot four times. With laufer,
three pretty Castilltan girls are re-
ported to have disappeared.
Shortly after the body of the slain
woman had been taken to the morgue
a richly gowned woman entered a po-
lice station from a limousine. She de - {
< Infed someone had telephoned to her
to go to the morgue; that ah® was,
positive someone was there she knew ,
Although she net new I to give her name, !
she was directed to the morgue. She ।
looked at the body.
That is she. all right” said she,
without emotion.
"Who?” a policeman inquired.
"Mrs. MeGillcuddy, my sister,” she
replied. I
The woman told the police she was
well known in St. Louis and did not
« are to have her name connected with
the affair She denied she knew any-
thing concerning the resort where the
killing took place.
TEX/\S POLITICS
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Governor Ferguson ejustiifed his ap-
pearance before the State Democratic
executive committee in support of the
proposition of u double stnatorial pri-
mary upon the ground that it was
his duty aa Governor to see that the
laws are enforced. Since he feels that
way.about it, perhaps his personal ap-
pearance in Dallas with a speech to
the officials might Induce the police
to unearth some of the mysterious
crimes that have been committed in
the city of the hour during the pres-
ent year. Denison Hera id.
Cyclone Davis, Congressman-at-
Large from Texas, after pulling off
his characteristic speeches of citupera.
tion and abuse, during which e slan-
ered Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederate States, is now trying to
work the newspapers of Texas for free
spare in which to make defense of his
unwarranted action and to bolster up
his campaign for re-election. Cyclone
should be returned to his home at Sul-
phur Springs and in the near future
be treated with that contempt which
is due him from every trus son of the
South.—Kilgore Chronicle,
Hon. C. H. Morri® of Winnsboro, can.
didate for Governor, is on a still hunt
for votes. He ia a good’ hand-shaker"
and a man of good appearance. He is
a business man—a bankers—who is
now seeking office for the first time.
Practically unnoticed in this country, which to
now celebrating the tercentenary ot Shakespeare's
death, paased the other day another tercentenary
worthy of remembrance by the whole literary
world, that of the death of Miguel de Cervantes-
Saavedra, creator of the immortal Don Quixote.
According to recorded dates Cervantes died the
very day of Shakespeare’a death, April 23,
1616. As a matter of fact, he died ten days earlier
than Shakespeare, the day on which the great
English poet died, corresponding, as was pointed
out in The Statesman the other day, with what is
Msy 3, according to our present calendar.
The one book by which Cervantes is known to
the world at large has probably been read by as
many people as have read any work of Shakes-
peare’s. Indeed it is likely that Don Quixote has
even surpassed in popularity anything written by
the great bard, and the greatest of writers who
followed him have bowed to the genius of Cer-
vantes. Yet few of the present day readers of the
great Spaniard’s masterpiece know anything of
the romantic history of Cervantes himself, a his-
tory as full of adventure as any he ever wrote.
Miguel de Cervantes, as he calls himself, was
born in 1547, probably on the first day of October.
As was the case with Homer, seven cities claimed
the honor of having been his birthplace, and, per-
haps as also in Homer’s case, Cervantes was not
born in any of the seven contending cities, but
in the small village of Alcala de Henares, in New
Castile, Spain. Unlike the story of Shakespeare's
life, that of the life of Cervantes is fairly well
known, except of his infancy and of some of the
years of his poverty. He was a cardinal'a page
in early life and went to Italy. Turning soldier
be went to the island of Cyprus to fight the Turks.
Later, although ill of a fever, he performed valiant
aervice in the battle of Lepamto, the greatest of
Spanish naval victories, under the famous Don
John of Austria. It was related that Don John
himself commented upon Cervantes’ conduct in
the battle and later visited him in the hospital at
Messina, where the Spanish wounded w«re. car-
ried. Cervantes received three wounds in the bat-
tle, one of which crippled his left hand
Battles in Tunia, in Sardinia and in Lombardy
marked the next five years of Cervantes’ life. In
1575 he was taken prisoner in an action with the
Algerines and spent five years as a slave in Al-
giers. Twice he was almost hanged by Hassan
Tasha, the bey of Algiers, who bought him from
his captors. Cervantes planned several revolts and
one of his plans came near resulting in the over-
throw of the Moorish power. He was released on
payment ot a heavy ransom. Hi career as a
soldier and sailor did not end here, however, for
he took part in the conquest of Portugal and in the
naval battle in which the Marquis of Santa Cruz
defeated the Portuguese, French and English off
the Azores. In his 36th year he turned to writ-
ing again, having as a very young man tried his
hand at it. He attempted the drama, but was
eclipsed by the rise of Lope de eVa. Twenty
dark years followed of which little is known. Cer-
vantes had married and besides his wife had de
pendent upon him his widowed sister, her daugh
ter and his own natural daughter. The love of
Cervantes for thia daughter throws a strong light
on his character. She waa the daughter of Cer-
vantea and a Portuguese lady and was tsken by
him into his home, where be cared for her through-
out his life. She was the author's child.
Don Quixote appeared in 1604, when Cervantes
was 58 years old. In the same year appeared in
England the perfected ‘‘Hamlet” of William
Shakespeare. Ita suecess was instant, and, al-
though it did not escape eriticeand brought little
money to the author, it was not many years in
being recognized ss it is today as the greatest of
all Spanish books. What “on Quixote” accom-
plished was the sweeping away of ridiculous works
founded on chivalry. It entirely changed the lit-
erature of the time. .
The bones of Cervantes have erumbled Into dust
and even that dust has been lost through the neg-
lent of his countrymen, but his fame has continued
through the neglect of his countrymen, bnt hig
feme has continued through the centuries. And
today, with a new type of fiction as ridiculous ant"
far less noble than that he attacked growing in
popularity, there still be many who fervently wish
that the old fellow “of aquiline featarea, chestnut
hair, long mustaches," and "somewhat crooked
in the shoulders,” could return to earth to sweep
sway with the magic of his satire the impossible
men and women of our social, aoeiological anf-
sexological stories, as he did the impossible
Amadises and Orlandos of Seventeenth Century
fiction.
Food provided for the family table de-
serves the carefill thought of every house-
wife. Do you use thought when buying
baking powder?
The quality of cake, biscuits and all
quickly raised flour foods depends largely
1 upon the kind of baking powder used.
Royal Baking Powder is made from
cream of tartar derived from grapes. It is
absolutely pare and has proved its excel-
lence for making food of finest quality and
wholesomeness for generations.
Royal Baking Powder contains no alum
nor phosphate.
The Albert Sidney John® ton Chapter
of th® United Daughters of th© Con-
federacy has appointed the following
committee to decorate grave® bn Deco-
ration Day Mr® Nannie Lee Dill,
chairman. Mrs. Texas Cummings, Mrs.
Chapman. Mr® J. H. Alsworth, Mrs.
J. C. Graham, Mrs. Betti® Helm, Mr«.
R. Y- King. Mrs. D. H. Doom, Mrs.
Drane. Mr®. J. B. Heal, Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. Pauline Doom. Mrs. T P. Robin-
son. Mrs. Hallie Boyette. Mrs. Robin-
son. Mrs. Collard. Mrs. Shelby Carpen-
ter, Mrs. G. W. Massie and others.
Respectfully,
A. P. WOOLDRIDGE, Mayor.
E. C. BARTHOLOM EW,
P. W. POWELL,
W. B. ANTHONY,
H. I. HAYNES,
Couneilmen.
In the open air with green trees
overhanging the stagesettings, Shakes-
peare’s -Twelfth Night- was played be-
for© an appreciative audience by Clif-
ford Devereux and his company on
the University campus last night. Tme
and season conspired with the players
to make the occasion delightful.
Switching the two opening scenes,
cutting out a bit here and there and
adding some "business" of their own
between the lines, the Devereux play-
era have adopted an acting version of
’Twelfth Night” which admirably pre-
serves the spirit of the great comedy,
while adapting it to the t antes of a
modern audience. But, indeed, it is
necessary to make little change in the
play to make it delightful to any au-
dience of any age and interpreted ably,
as It was last nigh, this most perfect
of nil ingi’sh comedies must please
without any alteration.
The difficult par* of Viola Gray,
ably handled by Ethel Huyler Gray,
while Adele KInrer played Oliver with
much delicacy of feeling. Clifford De-
vereux’s interpretation of the charac-
ter of bluff Sir Toby makes on© de-
sire to see him es F/latuff. The char- |
acter of Sir Toby is the most impor- I
tant male part 'n the play, for Olivin’s
unci© Is something more than a sot, "in
the third degree of drink.” He Is it
man of mc<t!e wit and good parts for]
all his fondness for suck, and the con-
trast between hl® character and' that
of the foolish, shallow Andrew Ague-
cheek. hl® friend, is faithfully pre-
served in the acting of .Devereux and
Henry Buckler, who playad Sir An - '
drew. Charles Fleming, who played I
Malvollo, d‛d so with much creative
art, end ^at, despite his tendency to '
adopt his own conception of Olivia’s ।
ate ward and bring him down to date .
Heining was very much "in character.4
He was, in fact, just about the Malvo-
Ho. "sick of self love," that we may ,
presume Shakespeare intended to paint j
Dennis Clench o« Orsino was n very ,
lovesick, sighing dud©, such as one
might expect him to be whose court - i
ship wa® carried on by proxy and '
whose native energy had been para- ;
lyzed by the malady of infatuation.
। The minor parts were wel taken,
purtcularly that of the clown, who. .
played by .Wiliiam Podmore, was at all
times In "excellent fooling.!
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