Show REASONS FOR OPENING SHAKES PEARES GRAM The famous Chandoa portrait which is the commonly accepted likeness of the poet has a very doubtful pedigree The Death Mask represents a noble face and one which all would wish that Shakespeare Shakes-peare really did look like but ita pedigree is very defeotive and only a certain resemblance can be traced in it to the authenticated Portraits Shakespeares skull would set all these doubts at rest even if we found nothing more in the grave But if by good fortune a photograph of the poets face could be made would not the end justify the means taken to secure it That such a hope is not a wild impossibility is known to science and the instances given above of the opening of the graves of many poets and others would seem to lead to but one conclusion that the world will not rest satisfied until the experiment has been tried and the tomb at Stratfordupon Avon made to give up Its mystery Let it be done reverently but let it be done soon Every year that ro Is by of course helps to defeat the end that is to be attained But that it will finally ho done is surely but a question of timeJ Parker 3X orris in Ths Manhattan for July |