Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1911 — CATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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**‘4x •HAKESPEARE'S class. nit.' J>*»W - I, -, r f », , j. | | _ | _ « w fammiS opera. *> Maw York critic concttolftM day Mr Belasco recited: * ° -r.T^C’T■.■■vifrA 1 n„,", .—v v 1- “To be Puccini’, librettist la. of course, an honor. But it isn’t a supremo honor. Some folks, though, seem to think so. *lt all reminds me of a story about Ardlti. Arditi was once invited to lecture on Shakespeare. with a pussaid a disciple. ‘Don’t you remember "Amleto” and “Romeo e Qiulietta’’ and “Otello” and so forth?* " ‘Oh, yes! of course!' said the famous conductor. ‘Shakespeare! The librettist!”’