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...Scarecrow," a four-act "tragedy of the ludicrous," is based on Hawthorne's "Feathertop," the scene lying in a small Massachusetts town, at the end of the seventeenth century. The first act opens in a blacksmith shop and the other three are at the home of Justice Merton...
...this sounds very serious, indeed, but the underlying tragedy of the theme comes to the surface only at intervals. The prevailing note is comedy, and there is much rich humor of character and situation. The first act, in the blacksmith shop of Goody Rickby, the witch, in a seventeenth century Massachusetts village, shows the creation and early training of the scarecrow, who, under the title of Lord Ravensbane, is sent into the world to avenge on Rachel, the daughter of Justice Merton, the wrong that the latter in his youth has inflicted on the witch. Attended by Dickon, "a Yankee...
This play, "a tragedy of the ludicrous," as Mr. MacKaye calls it, consists of four acts, the first of which is laid in a blacksmith shop. A small town in Massachusetts is the scene of the play, and the time the latter part of the seventeenth century...
...said that a short time ago he came to a Western town to deliver a lecture, and found on arriving that he had already been introduced in the shape of a photograph; who sat for it he did not know. A copy of it was in an apothecary's shop and under it the inscription, "Danderine did this and we can prove it." He was much surprised to see in the paper that he was going to speak that evening on "Salubrities I Have Met," since he had written that he would speak on "Celebrities I Have Met." Mr. Bangs...
...Taylor (2 lectures): Underlying principles of shop management...