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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
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In observing the scene referenced below, some snooty audience members have been heard to exclaim...
"(How) Crude the Act!"
Bottom-the-Weaver plays Pyramus-the-lover,
owner of a scarf his girl Thisbe will discover.
She is played by Francis Flute.
As a hyphenated female, he's passably cute.
You'll detect them in the leading roles
in a play-within-a-play. They share the goals
of pleasing the Duke in the final scene
of Will-the-Shake's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
~ OMK
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PS. In trying to make a Spoonerism of today's solution, I had to first imagine an interview that would be preceded by a meal.
This might be a luncheon, or merely a snack, but it was important to first have Food; the Chat should follow!
Fln, Sandy, since I solve (usually) on paper I hadn't noticed the J letters being available on Sunday.
At least yesterday's solution didn't cause cranial mayhem except for one J word.
OMK, I suspect that after enacting Lear or perhaps Othello MSND might have been a fun play.
But I imagine there were flutes played, fabrics weaved, hyphenated satyrs to be detected on that mysterious island.
But I'll bet none of your productions were ever cheesy.
WC
"Long Journey"
Flo loved playing the flute,
which her boyfriend found cute and a hoot.
She also learned to weave,
which helped her her stress to relieve
and gave her a welcome reprieve.
But all this her income did siphon
and put her life in a hyphen.
And so she began to brood
and many options she chewed.
She knew she could pose in the nude
but considered that crude and lewd.
But because she was lean and not fat
she got work, and so she sat
for a portrait, holding her cat.
This earned her a little money,
and pleased her boyfriend, Sonny.
He made her a proposition:
that he'd pay for her college tuition.
Now Flo has completed her mission
And performs as a famous musician.
(Yes, I know I did "detect"
that this word I did neglect.)
It was a very funny rendition of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene by a troupe of university students that turned me on to Shakespeare when I was a 7th grader.
When I was in high school I had some LPs of Hamlet excerpts by Olivier and Gielgud, so I had an early appreciation of Will's range.
The Max Reinhardt production of MNSD was world famous in its day. He staged it everywhere in Europe and England and even at the Hollywood Bowl. We're lucky that he filmed it, with a very young Mickey Rooney as Puck. He had an all-star cast, including James Cagney as Bottom-the-Weaver and Joe E. Brown as Flute.
I directed MSND for the Asolo Theater in Sarasota. I did it as a Jacobean masque. I used a local boy's choir for the Fairies.
It wasn't cheesy, Wilbur, or I hope not. We played Oberon & Titania for high glamour.
On the other hand, I think you might have called my Comedy of Errors "cheesy." I staged it in Williamsburg, in the Christopher Wren building at William & Mary, with a sort of Circus Clown theme, filled with corny gimmicks.
~ OMK
Misty ~ Very funny!
I got a kick from your "coda"--how you managed to slip the final word in (after all.)
~ OMK
Owen, hope you're ok today -- no post here or on the Corner!
Loved, loved your Shakespeare poem, Ol' Man Keith, and will now have to look up "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to enlighten and cheer me even more! Your poems and comments are just an incredible gift! Thank you for them, every day!
Wow! I just looked up "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and would give anything to see it. What a complicated mesh of various plots and situations and sites and figures and actions---almost impossible to imagine how anyone could manage to put all this together and stage it. Wish I could find a TV production to watch, but that's not likely--especially in September. But just reading about it has been a pleasure
I'm fine, but in a funk. My browser was messed up yesterday, and I finally had to run a restore on my entire system, which took an hour or so. That solved some of the problems, the rest seem to be with my target websites. Anyway, too bummed out to rhyme.
😯😯😯
So sorry to hear that, Owen. I send you my sympathy, and pray you have a better day tomorrow.
Owen, over at CC I linked one of my favorite poems by Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Song of the Bow" which mentions YEW.
WC
Someone thought you composed it. Praise indeed.
Sorry to read that, Owen, as I know how depressing and consuming it can be to have major computer system problems. I had a bunch of issues earlier this year that required me to tackle problems in "safe mode," which seemed to take forever. Troubles persisted for several days.
Bummer.
I hope yours clears up soon.
Misty ~ If you have Amazon prime, you can rent Reinhardt's 1935 film for a couple of bucks. Allowing for some dated cinematography (which won an Oscar anyway), it holds up very well. Dick Powell is Lysander (my role when I was at Yale), and Olivia de Haviland is Hermia. Victor Jory is Oberon, and Anita Louise is Titania, Queen of the Fairies.
William Dieterle is listed as co-director, but this is Reinhardt's famous DREAM. Dieterle was one of Reinhardt's regular actors in Europe, so since he had established himself as a Hollywood director by this time, he loaned his talents to the Maestro to help in adapting DREAM to film.
~ OMK
Well, sadly I don't have Amazon Prime. But I'll check with my few local friends to see if any of them could rent it for me, or be willing to rent it and watch it with me. It really does sound fascinating.
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