Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...they will witness a production which is not alone extraordinary but unique. There will be moments in the first act when they will gasp at the cold-blooded, sheer brutality of the dialogues and situations; there will be times when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense and virile drama-and above all the work...
...Court, 51 Brattle street, this evening at 8 o'clock. H. von Kalten-born '09 will act as toastmaster. Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 will speak on "The Relations of the Historic Drama to Modern Plays," and Professor G. P. Baker '87 on "The College Dramatist." A. Davis '07, author of "The Promised Land," R. M. Middlemass '09, who played the leading part, and D. Gardiner 2L., president of the Dramatic Club, will also make short speeches...
...Robert Hunter, author of "Poverty" and "Socialists at Work," will speak on "Socialism" in Emerson F this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Socialist Club, will be open to the public. After being graduated from the University of Indiana in 1896, Mr. Hunter became secretary of the Chicago Bureau of Charities. In 1902 he was made chairman of the New York Child Labor Commission and has since accomplished a great deal toward bettering the conditions among the poor of New York City...
...York Evening Sun accords the author high praise. The criticism reads in part as follows...
...Edward Sheldon, the author of 'Salvation Nell,' in which Mrs. Fiske made her appearance at the Hackett Theatre, is only 23 years old. Ten years hence, when he has become a still more successful and well-seasoned playwright, he will probably stand abashed at the remembrance of all he did and dared in his maiden effort. For however much traditions may be shocked and polite conventionalities shattered, the fact must go on record that this boy from Harvard, backed only by the courage of his own convictions, and with Mrs. Fiske as both actress and stage manageress standing...