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ENGLISH CLUB TO
PRESENT COMEDY
SHAKESPEARE'S "COMEDY OF
ERRORS" WILL BE GIVEN BY
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
Production VIII Be SplendidIy Co.'S
tuMed-Public Welcomed at Audi
torium Friday Night.

In the performance of Shakespeare s
The Comedy of Errors" on Friday
night at the university auditorium, the
English club is doing a noteworthy
thing. This play is seldom presented,
owing to its faults and to it's conse-
quent low rank among Shakespeare's
dramatic productions. 1t was written
| at the Otuset of the authors career.
being his first or possibly his second
piece, and shows all the marks of the
apprentices hand. 1t is the only one
of Shakespeare plays borrowed from
the classics, being based upon the
Menaechmi of Ploutus. 1t is likewise
the only one of Shakespeare's plays
that can be justly called farce. Even
here, however, there is serious
thread concerned with the early ship
wreck and separation of a family and
the rigorous laws of Ephesus which
condemn the father in search of his
son to die because of the citys enmity
toward Syracusians found in Ephesus
on any business whatever
Case of Mistaken Identity.
The fun comes from the situation of
mistaken identity, which is here
developed to the extreme of improba-
bility. The family separated by ship
wreck consists of Syracusian mer-
oho -,,f
together with infant twin slaves |
bought to serve the merchants sons. |
The mother with one son and one slave |
is taken by rescuers to Ephisus, where
the two latter grow to manhood and
where the mother becomes an abbess.
The other twin son, accompanied by
his slave, comes to Ephesus after wan
dering for five years in search of his
twin brother, and here also the father
comes.
Series of Errors.
Into one day is crowded a series of
errors sufficient to make fun for many
lays So perfect is the resemblance of
he two pairs of twins that the wife
If one, when she sees them together,
kinks she see two husbands, the Duke
axes one of them to be spirit, and
he one slave, on meeting the other,
xclaims, "Methinks thou art my glass,
nd not my brother!" Of course the
angle is unwound, and every thing
nds happily, as it should. The word
lay is constant and of rather cheap
ind, sometimes based on stock jokes,
nd the verse is frequently ryhmed
oggerel. {
Is a Far Cry from Abraham.
The play was chosen, then, not be- t
ause of its merit, though in spite of a
1ese defects it has fine acting value, t
ut because of it's logical place in the \
cries of plays chosen to illustrate the s
evelopment of the drama Crude as il
this play when measured by Shakes
cares standard, it will be seen that e
is a far cry from Abraham and il
,aac or the Secunda Pastorum, pre- p
snted in the early fall. Attendance "
pom all the plays presented by the W
nglish club in the carryig out of its o
an should give students more vivid d
of the development of
e drama than much reading or many
ass room lectures. When, to the ac-
lisition of knowledge, is added an p
ening's uproarings fun and laughter, II
would seem that no one should be n,
sent on Friday night. be
The following is the cast of char IA
ters who will participate in the re
ay FRIDAY hlshC' ,ag
ike. Wilfrid Waters mr.
geon. Arthur ]. Lyon
ltipholus of Ephesus. Donald David
ltipholus of Syracuse. B. H. Lehman
omio of Ephesus. Harold Purdy
omio of Syracuse. 49,. Ross Cartee ~
lthazar. ..................O %. McColl
gelo. o........... Charles Crump -
st Merchant. Oscar Knudson
eond Merchant. Willard Mcdowell :"
lch Ralph Green -N
melia. Anna McMonigle We
riana. Valborg Kjosness
ciana. Burd Wall
ce. e......G Gladys Anthony '
me. .Nettie Bauer Ca
icer. Chester Vincent We
diers, Guardsmen, Spectators, Etc. tar
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