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...dramatic life of his subject, proportioning it justly, and letting it go its own exciting way in the theatre. The play is divided into five episodes. The two most conspicuous are that wherein Pasteur addresses the reactionary Academy of Medicine?heckling members of which are planted here and there amongst the audience?and that in which he effects the first cure for hydrophobia on a young...
...Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND, Feb. 26--Contrary to popular imagination, the last weeks of the Lent term are amongst the busiest of the whole academic year. It is, in vulgar parlance, the close of the "winter season", the time when the piece de resistance of many a club and society's program is held, whilst "annual dinners" are consumed nightly in the hostelries of the town...
...Amongst our other activities recently the University Mission has loomed fairly large. Dr. Furse, the Bishop of St. Albans, was O. C., if we may borrow from military sources, and his strong personality and characteristically breezy manner went far to appeal to the undergraduates. The attendances, we are told, were good; and at the close of the Mission the Archbishop of Canterbury came up to add his seal to the proceedings...
...that her work in the world is to use in the political salons of Europe the weapon of her old mind sheathed in a young body. What she thought was love of Lee Clavering was only an attachment to the idea of the romance she had never had, amongst all the polished intrigues of her career. She was too old for love...