Pierrot the plot, which was interlarded with comically violent (and often scabrous) mayhem. As in the Bakken pantomimes, that plot hinged upon Cassander's pursuit of Harlequin and Columbine—but it was complicated, in Baptiste's interpretation, by a clever and ambiguous Pierrot. Baptiste's Pierrot was both a fool and no fool; he was Cassandre's valet but no one's servant. He was an embodiment of comic contrasts, showing imperturbable sang-froid [again the words are Gautier's], artful foolishness and foolish finesse, brazen and naïve gluttony, blustering cowardice, skeptical credulity, scornful servility, preoccupied insouciance, indolent activity, and all those surprising contrasts that must be expressed by
Hale v. Committee on Character and Fitness for the State of Illinois antisemitic views within his law application, but also stated that these views would not get in the way of him practicing law. Despite these claims Hale's application was rejected based on the committees findings that he "did not satisfy his burden of proving that he possessed the requisite character and fitness on several findings." and that his past actions and current views would likely lead him to actions inconsistent with the bar Immediately after his rejection, Hale petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court to reconsider his application, and questioned the constitutionality of rejecting his application based on a set of beliefs