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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Stock Company is reviving this week the latest, and probably the best, of the murder plays which kept the children awake so many nights last winter. "Whispering Wires" is less gruesome, more natural, and far more structurally perfect than its predecessors. We feel also that the author shows admirable rstraint in keeping his finger off the electric light switch. There is something gruesome about a dark stage, and frankly we don't like it. It makes us feel as if the man who was with that girl we thought we knew had taken out his penknife. Fortunately...
LEVIATHAN-William Bolitho-Harp-ers ($2.00). The author has chosen the word Leviathan, meaning something formidably large, as title of a number of essays interpreting "our age"-or what the Germans call Zeitgeist. Mr. Bolitho says the saxophone is our Zeitgeist. He describes the curious cruelty of the English in Mme. Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors-the place where the effigies of famed murders are exhibited before the crime, in the act of the crime, after the crime, at the point of execution, etc. He tells of the great past, moving forward in the same 'dignified...
...Author. Matthew Phipps Shiel was born of Irish parents in the West Indies in 1865. He studied medicine and mathematics; chemical experiments and mathematics are still his chief amusements. He appears to know a little about almost everything. His first venture as an author was the publication of a paper, written out by hand, at the age of 13. His particular pride is his body. He boasts that he, "over 40 years old, can run nine miles with sprightliness." He sees a fundamental identity between genius and physical health. Among his novels-some 20 in number-are Prince Zaleski, Shapes...
Unto this misused and sorry setting, Mr. Purdy, the hapless author, has introduced a plot that is positively brilliant. He has to start with two main characters: Joe Bagley, who has a drygoods store and a tremendous ambition to write editorials for the "Glendale Observer", and Kenneth Dodge, who has been set up by a proud father as associate editor of that paper. But alas, although the father was once a great editor, the son knows not the meaning of pen and paper, but leans rather towards dry goods management. We just couldn't think how Mr. Purdy would...
...four tutors will be P. R. Doolin '20, who is also a fourth year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and who studied at Paris for part of his undergraduate career; R. D. Howard; who graduated last June with high honors; Daniel Sargent '13, author of several books of poetry, and who assisted Professor Barrett Wendell in much of his later work, notably his "Traditions of European Literature"; and E. A. Whitney, '17 a tutor in field of History for the past five years...