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...Moto Perpetuo" (Musical Joke), First time at these concerts, Strauss...
...well or ill, in high spirits or low, I am always equal to tragedy, but comedy is a serious business." He meant that comedy requires an amount of earnestness and depth that is not usually given to it. An actor, while thoroughly appreciating it must always take a joke seriously, otherwise the humor is lost. Dogberry, for example, when he hears that the lady Hero was slandered, says "Flat burglary as ever was committed." He saw nothing peculiar in the word "burglary." So the actor must be perfectly serious and speak in good faith...
...lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer's statements are correct, his few strictures richly deserved, his generous praise well bestowed...