| Show STUDENT LIFE and a mattemplated a pawn-sho- p rimonial bureau but this promises to be her last gasp Never mind about asking how she got entangled in the venture You ought to know without asking that such a liberal philanthropic billionaire corporation as Student Life is in the show business purely for her health or better still because she realizes that an epidemic of John Griffiths and Marie Wain-wrigh- ts is very likely to turn popular taste away from her good old friend Bill Shakespeare She’s just doing a good turn for Bill Student Life has no need of money except for the fact that there is a crying demand for a firein proof safe and a the office You see this year’s paper continued at its present standard with perhaps a little extra will splurge at Commencement cost only the trifling sum of $750 To meet this there are now in sight advertising contracts worth about $400 and a paid-u- p subscription list of just $150 A paper with such an enthusiastic constituency has no need to worry Student Life will come out free from debt She has never yet started something she couldn’t finish But you will not consider her sordid and grasping gentle reader if she should make a few pennies of profit by her barnstorming and lay them by for a rainy day? It often rains in the spring in Utah you know With these few delicate apologies let us tell you a few things about the play You all know the cash-regist- er 143 wildwood beauty of this daintiest of Shakespeare’s comedies If you do not just sprinkle talcum over the blush of shame and march bravely up to the librarian or some friend that loans and say “I want to that good old comedy ‘As You Like It’ I see these youngsters at the A C are going to put it on and I want to enjoy it by myself once more before they spoil it for me” Whereby you not only conceal your own ignorance but help advertise the play Which is an excellent thing The story of “As You Like It” is foreshadowed as early as Chaucer’s time in a long narrative poem once ascribed to him — The Tale of Gamelyn This is the Robin Hood type of story with a younger brother finally breaking away from the oppression of his elders and Here joining the forest outlaws he proves himself every inch a man and remains until at last the elder brothers are brought within his The had no power on this first work but bearing Tlios Lodge retold the tale in 1590 with a charming quick-witte- d heroine who also goes in exile to the greenwood and finds there all she seeks in life Lodge told the story in prose romance form under title of Rosalvnde Shakespeare’s part was to catch the sweet woodland spirit of the whole and tune and vivify every character into harmony with it He added only three characters of his own —Jaques the melthe ancholy cynic Touchstone fool and the hoyden Audrey care-fre- e re-re- ad love-moti- ve |
