The sun., 1916-09-25
PROF. DRUM RIDES
HIS OLD LATIN PONY
some TrOtting to Get SHERRY
Wives Of Windsor on
Stage Again.
yOW ..rXORES IIILARES"
Silyius Hcinibus and PtOmain-
Gus W"ischeimcrOrum Stir
Theatrical World.
NOW ..rXORES IIILARES''

Prof. Joe Drum. ~ho is the doyen OF
l.onsscre square savants. put the rollers
,nler another classic worlds record yes
,~erday-and. incidentally. under much Of
his own nervous s~ysten,-by releasing
FOR publication just before midnight the
nrst theatrical advance notice written
Z. Latin since MacPlautus and Old Doc
Terence quit turning out Ave reel stun
FOR the tired Roman business men whom
Mac and Terry. like our own Dave Be-
Issco. always spoke Of as my public"
Down around the Georgetown Uni.
,ersi,y campus. Prof. Joe Is best re-
membered as tho brilliant. hard work.
Ing young student who took the final
examinations with the classes of 80.
100. '0i, 'Oc. '03. '04. Inc then left
Georgetown Nat In order to m%atriculate
IN the Scranton Correspondence School
10 do postgraduate work in stage
dancing and fancy bag punching.
Around Broadway and Forty-second
street. however. Prof. Drum Is known
not only for his learning but also as
The genius who some time ago tried 10
interest James Montgomery Fagg.
George Buchanan Fife and Archie Gum
IN a scheme TO get some manager 10
send out the Messrs. Fife. Drum. Gum
and Flagg In a preparedness play to be
called THE Spirit OF Seventy.Six."
Names In Latin Drcss.
Bu. be that as It may. Moro inter.
es,ing among the recent past perform
, ances Of Old Doc Drum 10 the fact tina,
not long ago his lcarnedness came 70
the notice Of Silvio Helm n Tom Wise
or S!lvius Heinlbus and Ptomaineus
wlseheimerorun. to doll their names ur
in the proper classic form which hence.
forth they doubtless will prefer-who
"a producer ara star respectively are
about to launch THE Merry Wives oil
Windsor"
Fortunately the old pony that Dos
Drum bought early in his career as q
sixth year fourth year man III
Georgetown was still intact when the
popular Broadway 50 holar was called II
by Sllvius and PtOmc ineus to hell
break the news to n scholarly few thai
Ptomaineus Is about to play Johamnt'
Fosta6 in this here, now. "Cxores Hi
lsres ex Windsor"
II was a dog cared and broker backed
pony even back In the days when DO,
Drum was a member Of the class o.
30. 90. '0i. '02. '03. % ut Georgetown
and some OF the pages were missing
but a little paste here and a little there
and a couple Of fancy stitches rcvivct
the old pony sufficiently to perm,
Broadway's leading scholar to lead !
into action yesterday.
Wherefore old Doc Drum came wearil.
down TO Newspaper Row last night ant
dealt out typewriter sheets. spotted will
the sweat OF homes, toll, which said Will
gay fiipparcy:
Isl quid sit in Sc ingenil-quod senti'
yuam sin exiguun-Ilud ,ot,m ,xistirna,
Silvius Helm IN d.gna G, bone proportio,
ia,a productions allcujus fabulae Cullen
fPll) Shakespeare. Ioetae prae ceteri.
omnibus in soon, eluc,,,is MO yir,,
expendendum Ell hoe ouidem proponi
.acicndum non ,urpis lucri causa, sed u
ipse ~producens adj sun,num fas,iciup
honoris personals eyeha,ur"
ril,hx u.~c.. Ahho...a
Here IN the opening paragraph wa
me iirst hint OF the astounding news tina
SHVius and Ptomaineus~ probably will lie
Everybody in free to the show. TIL
statement isn't positively made of cours,
mat anybody who wants to get in o.
an Annie Oakley may do so. but II 1
diHcult to make anything else out o
mat phrase about hoe Quidem proponi
iaciendum non turpis lucri causa." I
'lucri' hcn-so everybody down tow
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