Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plot of the play is very simple. John Sayle had fallen in love with Lucy Pryor many years before the overture began, but had foolishly (as he decides in Act III) left her. Sayle becomes Baron Otford and Lucy Pryor Madame Lachesnais. Of course, when the play opens in 1805, the Baron's son finds Madame's daughter living in a romantic street called Pomander Walk, and falls violently in love with her (Act 1). But when Marjolaine's mother hears who the suitor is she says "no daughter of mine" etc., and John Sayle...
Obviously there is little new in the plot. In fact many of the situations, particularly in Act III, seem trite. But the unusual excellence of the dialogue and the careful perfection of scenic detail make the performance fascinating. Some of the apparent bricks in the house on Pomander Walk would do credit to the north side of Holworthy...
...That heads of music departments, or other representatives of colleges, in which these expositions are given, shall act as an advisory committee with Mr. Whiting...
That the new plan will act as a magnet to draw equal representation from all over the country can hardly be expected. Its purpose is merely to open the door so that an entire extra year of preparation will not be needed for men who have not gone to Harvard fitting schools. Making Harvard more nationally representative is a distinct work. The new plan can only remove the brake to progress in that direction which the old plan had clamped...
With a setting that would please Gordon Craig and a rigor and a moral lesson that would have interested as audience of the fourteenth century, the Irish Players last evening acted a "Morality" of one act that peculiarly appealed to persons from Cambridge, that pleased a large audience and perhaps, in some measure, afforded them a lesson. It is called "The Hour Glass," by Mr. Yeats...