Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — Dramatic Criticisms. [ARTICLE]

Dramatic Criticisms.

An elderly woman who witnessed a production of "The Merchant of Venice” many years ago went again recently to see the story of Shylock played. Upon her return home she was asked how she liked it. “Wai,” said she, “Venice seemed to have spruced up some since the last time I saw it; but Shylock’s jest the same mean, ordinary thing he was forty years ago.”