THEATRICAL NOVELTY.
1 -- SI iAK ESPHaRK UP-TO-DATE. OSCAR ASCHK’S PRODUCTION.. LONDON, July 30. -Vlr Oscar Ascho answered in a decided affirmative the question of whether Sh;ikes.])eai'e can be produced ;in a modern setting with his production of ‘‘The Merry Wives of Windsor” lor the British Empire Shakespeare Society. At Fail staff. Mr Asdic was a whitespa tied, top-hatted drinker of hear, who w bailed aiivw in Mistress Rage’s boudoir over i.he butcher's shop in High St reel, Windsor.
Slomk-r was attired in plus lours and dragged a. golf c'iub. Person Evans, armed with an umbrella, rode a push bicycle. Fenton rode a motor-cycle from Oxford and took sweet Anne Page tfliinn riding. Mistress Ford, who smoked cigarettes. telephoned to Miptress Quickly, wlw> was a seedy charwoman, but stiil 'nil of the Shakespearean quicksilver of intrigue and duplicity were retained.
Mr Asdic very cleverly manoeuvred with the (ext of the ploy, presenting a slender greyhound which ran at Wembley.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 13 August 1929, Page 5
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