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...Pickwick. The discriminating multitude whose pleasure it is to take snacks of Dickens's Pickwick Papers before going to bed, may enjoy seeing animated illustrations of the book now being exhibited as a play...
...consequence than is to be found in the Papers themselves, are: the affair at the Inn, where the mad scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...seniors found a prancing group of quadrupeds dragging the Rochester (England) coach about the Yard, guided by an anachronism and the university's omnipresent sous-officer. At that time, as paint-smeared thespians climbed the steps of University Hall, and hoop skirts rolled into the Deanery, a volume of Pickwick Papers was heard groaning from its lair in Child Memorial...
There are such things as good taste and common sense. Dickens often misused the one and abused the other. Yet even the versatile author and creator of Pickwick would have asked Perry truncher to take the bones carted into Harvard Yard back to their cemetery. And Thackeray, who, for obvious reasons, never inspires such gaucheries, would have written another chapter of "Vanity Fair...
Driving through the beautiful country that Dickens so liked, the Pickwick passengers will terminate their tour at The Weld, the Anderson estate in Brookline. Here amid great natural beauty, the picnic in "Pickwick" will be duplicated in the open air theatre on the spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...