AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 269, 23 April 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

JOSEPH BLASCHECK AXD SHAKESPEARE. A famous American critic, James Shsllcy Hamilton, says: "Boys and girls reau their Shaikespeare in high school after being solemnly •warned that lie is the greatest man in English literature. Then their lesson learned and their examination safely passed, they put their Shakespeare behind them with quadratic equations and' Thingumbob's law of velocitj —something they have endured for education's sake and are done with. Thereafter Shakespeare is highly respected, and respectfully avoided." What a pity 1 The truth is.t'iat Shakespeare is not a bit of a high-brow. German commentators have done their worst to mal'e him seem one, but their success, is summed up in merely having seared a great many people away from him. But Joseph Blascheck by bis genius shows us what unalloyed pleasure wc can all enjoy from listening to the beauties of the Master Poet. Forget that Shakespeare wrote masterpieces, and go to ■hear his plays as you would any other entertainment, to be thrilled, to be amused, to be taken out of yourself. Blascheck can do it! He will thrill you, delight you, enthrall you. If you happen to care "for poetry and other tilings that have made Shakespeare last, so much the better—your enjoyment is increased. But there is enough to enjoy without that. Mr. Joseph Blascheck will give j one entertainment in the Theatre Royal , next (Wednesday, April 28th. The box j plan opens at Holl'mann's morning, where day sale tickets can | alsi) be purchased. !