Part 16 (1/2)

Write a notice of one of the plays now on the local stage

II Explanation

To keep its readers infor presented at local theaters is one of the functions of the newspaper If the play is a classic, only the quality of the acting need be discussed

If it is new, the notice should also include a description of the play and of its merit Fortunately, this can always be deterested by no less a critic than Williaive, in other words, an accurate picture of life? The stage, it may be added, always has been and is now infested by lo jokes and antics The events which some of them depict could occur neither on the earth, in the sky above the earth, nor in the waters underneath the earth From others it would be i the whole They fill the theater with people and the er's pocket-book with money, but they are not plays

III Models

I

_The Melting Pot_ coo indorsewill, as author Mr Zangwill's theme is that the United States is a crucible in which all the races and nationalities of the world are to be fused into one glorious people

As a play _The Melting Pot_ has the intellectual tone to be expected frowill It also has really poetic touches

In humor it is less successful In dramatic construction it is faulty, as are so many of the conte

The play brings back to New York after a long absence that excellent actor, Mr Walker Whiteside--METCALFE in _Life_ (abbreviated)[7]

[7] Reprinted by permission of _Life_

II

Of _David Copperfield_, dickens's favorite a his oorks, there have been drahway of Life_, by Louis N Parker, author of _Pomander Walk_ and _Disraeli_, has been done with extreme reverence for the text and with an elaborate scenic investiture that would have lad the heart of the novelist, enamored as he was of the theater

It was to have been the autu at His Majesty's in London, with Sir Herbert Tree doubling as _Micawber_ and _Dan'l Peggotty_ The war caused a change of plans, so the first perfore took place at Wallack's in New York

Lennox Pawle, Mr Parker's son-in-law, realized a long-cherished ambition to step forth as _Micawber_ Fresh from his an for _Dan'l Peggotty_ _Betsey Trotwood_ fell to Eva Vincent The Lieblers were especially happy in their selection of a _Mrs

Micawber_ in the person of Maggie Holloway Fisher She spent days digging out and fashi+oning the costu more successfully than she at David's dinner-party An astonishi+ngly faithful ie, when, as _Traddles_, he reads _Micawber's_ letter J V Bryant, the _Copperfield_, and Vernon Steele, the _Steerforth_, are both English O P

Heggie deserves s he refrains froh that waterless washi+ng of the hands

There are ten different sets of scenery in _The Highway of Life_, all charround of Mr Wickfield's garden at Canterbury we have a glimpse of the faet a view of the chalk cliffs and downs at Dover A happy conceit throws shadow pictures of the principal characters upon a sheet as they cross the stage just before the first curtain rises--MATTHEW WHITE, JR, in _Munsey's_ (abbreviated)[8]

[8] Reprinted by permission of _Munsey's_

IV Notes and Queries

1 What is the subject of each paragraph in Model I?

2 Explain the function of each sentence in Model I

3 Discuss the o indorsement; thewill?

5 Tell the story of David Copperfield

6 Why does Matthew White not tell it?

7 Discuss the uses of the apostrophe