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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1922)
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 18, 1922 K 3& INTER COLLEGIATE SHAKESPEARE m V ri Se?jes vi I1H liil ? -3 Q WW I.HN 51W V' i r?'-: 1 v-i Wo t A J ! J.: s mBmA ili'iiSii Just a crowd of jolly college girls -doing "Hamlet" at commencement. Ethel Maud Neason, who plays Hamlet, is introducing a lot of sidelights into the role that neither Sotbern nor Forbes-Robertson ever thought of. Hazel Hargis, the senior class beauty, is making a big thing out of Ophelia. Everybody out front is telling everybody else how much prettier Hazel is without any makeup. v. !M, w mm I l .bJ 1 Mm II III I I II II im III II in si- J e?F-Vii!5Sv: iB-Jlii Copyright 1922 By the Chicago Tribune busier person than Mr. Butterworth, the nglish instructor, on the day of the outdoor perform ance of "Julius Caesar" at the .Riverdell Hall Academy simply doesn't exist. As the head mas ter's wife was heard to say, "I don't tte what we would ever have done without Mr Butterworth!'' (Mr. 3utterworth is at thi moment prompting from a little Temple edi tion behind the Roman forum.) "Feace there, hear the noble An' (tony I" Four members of the Riverdell Hall Academy graduating class dis guised as : the mob in ' "Julius Caesar." Sir Andrew, Maria and Sir Toby in l weitth wignt, cutting up and roystering around like anything. (This is dress rehearsal not a regular performance otherwise Miss Waite, who plays Maria, would never be' wearing her eyeglasses.) 11 ill Jd ill ffi Mil if mm. An outdoor per. fOrmance of "Mid summer Night's Dream." showiner one of the fairies i somewhat alarmed by a noise in the underbrusli. It-may te just spmebody's little ltitty and then again it may e something else. With bare ankles' one can't be toe careful Katherine, in "The Taming of "the . Shrew" (played by Harry L. Caffeine, '24), is shown be ing oh, . so saucy and pert to Petru-chio. IP Elizabethan lady iti waiting none other in real life than' Old Fred B ursley walking deli cately over a bumpy piece of ground. i ne atmospnere m mt wuuciuvh wn.j y this pertormance oniy, Dcing nanuicu uj i.if i".uaSv,,. on whom all the mean jobs seem to fall with a sickening thud. CJhe regular property boy is taking a makeup exam, in chem- istry 1.7 lou see ks line 'V1'" v,,,I"6k necessary in the Lauderbach produifton ol "As You Like It the A. M. will march on and hang out a sign reading "Room in the Palace" or "Forest of Arden." Then he will retire and the sign wtU fall off the peg. . v, . wvsu .'BiM ri its mm iBIiifcssliiiiil V! I.'-.J. MHIB .V.-J):r. SUM. V-ltf. i J! V. . Wl Bl i.f.f K Afl7!.7l K -s Mtt' 9 i: vThe Shakespearean Masque. The girls, of the Mount Ropewell senior dramatics ire offering this year a fantasy based on the life of the Bard ol Avon, written without any outside help at all by Lillian Weems (specializing in chemistry). It deals with Mr. Shakespeare in his early days be fore he had thought ol anything much to write about There appear to h im,.iti a vision the three graces willingness, license and idealism wltt cause to parade before the poet's eyes all the heroines ol the later Shakes pcartan dramas. Last to appear is Anji Hathaway, who throws a 'beau, tiful red cloth rose to him. Whereupon. Shakespeare sits down te write h is first play. The English department insists that Lillian really curat ia write for the stage. V