The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-25

tently. In Warde, Shakespeare has a
most worthy, intelligent, sincere des-
| ciple. 1t is a real pleasure to listen
to his recitals. And how he did lam
paste the theoretical commentators and
cryptogrammists.
"There has arisen in this country a
controversy, If one choose to cali it
such, as to the authorship of the writ
ings bearing the indelible print of
Shakespeare's genius It was a Ger
tain Mrs. Bacon who was the source
of one theory that the lines were
penned by her noble ancestor, Lord
Bacon. She subsequently died in an
insane asylum You observe a man
standing on the street corner intently
gazing at the sky overhead. In a short
time others will line up and gaze also,
and after while you will see
crowd gazing at an imaginary orbit
in the heavens. So with the crank,
But. my friends l would as soon re
pudiate the authorship of the Lords
prayer as to ascribe the writings or
Shakespeare to any other man. Bacon
was a scholar and a statesman.
Shakespeare was poet and a phiioso.
pher Read Bacon and not line OF
poetry will you discover. Read Shakes
peare and the poetry therein is as
beautiful as the dew drops that glisten
on the green grass in the sunlit morn
ing. Read Bacon and you will be inn
pressed by the elegance of diction and
language. Read Shakespeare and you
will be struck by the imperfections in
language. His Latin is bad and his
French phrases-well, if a young girl
after semester in school should express
herself so her mother would say:
Child, throw away your French studies
and go out into the kitchen and make
puddings.'
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study and love him. oh. there is SO
much to be learned by application to
his works. His a science full OF
genius. I contend that there is not
a greater factor for education than his
historical plays. What is more beau
tiful than the sparks of love which
scintillate from the words Of advice
given to his son by Polonius? I don't
think there was ever greater apostle
of Christianity than Shakespeare No
one character in all his plays that does
not believe in God"
Then to illustrate the actor recited
the lines that make up the tragic story
of bluff king Hal and his faithful, yet
erring servant, Cardinal Woolsey. No
book, no chart, no oil painting can
portray the real substance of that fate
full existence in the way it was de-
pcted by the clever actor.
AS silent as the tomb was the vast
audience, and so it remained In con-
tinued respectful silence alteration for
the genius and may it be said for Mr..
Warde; and then when the last words
were dying away there arose tu-
multi. The applause was deafening.
By their encore the audience only par
TALLY expressed it's great appreciation
of the fact that one of the greatest
living opponents of the stage and
Shakespeare was entertaining them.
Even periods which they knew full
well deserved rounds of applause. time
seemed to be too short to be wasted
by such diversion--it was more, more
of Warde they wanted. He held his
audience spell-bound for two hours and
could have continued into a night ses-
sion, and not person would have left
his seat, so intense was the delight at
the opportunity to listen to Shake
speare enunciated by a master intel
lect. Mr.. Warde in plain terms ex
planned the only method by which the
great genius may be understood.
Don't read commentators. They
have done more to confuse the student
than any other factor. Just read
Shakespeare. the original, fountain
head. After having read it for the
story, then read it for the poetry. and