Throwing A Bouquet At Allan

NZ Truth, Issue 1151, 22 December 1927, Page 2

Throwing A Bouquet At Allan

| MANY people prate and prattle of William Shakespeare and look I | upon his works merely as containing things to quote. The only j | bright spots they know are: "To ba or Not to Be." "Friends, Romans, \ I countrymen, lend me your ears," and "All the World's a Stage." ] § Most people cannot go three lines further into the quotations j I oited. As for the average theatrioal manager he has novor read \ I through a single play of William's, being much more Interested m \ I "what won the last?" The newspaper critics are as bad. ! § There are not a thousand people m New Zealand to-day who read I | Shakespeare's plays for the pleasure ef reading them. | 1 it seems a great pity, but he is m danger of becoming merely • I i name — a great name, certainty — but nothing but a name. Something I i for people to aay: "Oh, yes. Shakespeare. Great genius/ just the i | way they do about Socrates and Plato and a lot of marble busts m our I § Art Gallery, that are just busts and nothing else. § | All this is merely by way of throwing a bouquet m the direction I i of Wilkie with a card attached, bearing the words: "More power te I | you." 1 .?iMiiiiiiiiiiinMinuniiMiuiiiHMiniMinnMiiiiiMuiuHinniHnHHUiiiintniHiinniiMiiHiuiniiiiiiinnniuMiiiiiiiiniHiiiiHiuiiinimiiiinmmMmmmiiii(imimtiii^