Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author endeavored to make the play homely and human. He succeeded, but at the expense of interest. The action drags one foot after the other interminably. The characters seem too familiar; the comedy is rare...
Barbara Frietchie. All popular folk must expect to have liberties taken with them. Witness Wales, and now Whittier's heroine. As in the play by Clyde Fitch, Barbara of the silver screen appears as a youngster of twentysomething, author not only of America's first permanent wave but also of love in the bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara...
...extraordinary history of the poem has been a matter of conjecture and speculation ever since it was written in 1888. A well-known magazine conducted an extensive inquiry as to its author, and many men have claimed to have signed the initials "E. L. T." which appeared under the poem in the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Hopper, while waiting his cue as "Colonel Popoff" in "The Chocolate Soldier", explained the true authorship to the CRIMSON reporter...
...newspaperman, himself a great journalist. "Casey at the Bat", Mr. Thayer's masterpiece, was dashed off in a very short time as a space filler for the paper. It attracted little attention, until six, months later when it was brought east by Archibald C. Gunter, the well-known author, and given to Mr. Hopper, with the suggestion that he might some day be able to use it. "I was playing at the time at Wallack's Theatre", Mr. Hopper explained, "and we were giving a special performance for the Chicago White Sox and the Giants, who were then playing...
Alfred Wilhelm Martin, lecturer from the New York Ethical Society will address the Ethical Club at its first meeting of the year on Sunday, October 5. Mr. Martin is the author of a number of books dealing with ethical questions, one of which is upon the same subject as his lecture, "Four Historic Ideals of Life; Ancient, Mediaeval, Renaissance, Modern...