: A meeting of the Canterbury Land Board was held yesterday. In order that members might' be free to visit the show, only urgent business was dealt with, and other business was, postponed till next Thursday.
Mr Alfred Sutro, the- well-knowu author 'of plays, discussing stage • fashions, says that the most deadly sin of the playwright is dulness. Clergymen, he adds, are the only persons who' have a right to be dull, with statesmen as a good second, and leader-writers third. "If Shakespeare were aliv& -
to-day," remarks Mr Sutro, "he would still give us his characters, but Desdemona would play hockey, besides taking her university degree, and Ophelia would induce Hamlet's mother to sentt him for a rest cure."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8407, 8 November 1912, Page 5
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