Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...encouragement of the development of play-writing by undergraduates in the University, Frederick A. Wilmot '10 has authorized the CRIMSON to offer a prize of $100 to the undergraduate who submits before May 1, 1913, an acceptable comedy or dramatic playlet, taking not longer than half an hour in action. No restrictions are placed upon the writers as to the make-up of the cast. All unused manuscripts will be returned to their owners, and the same courtesies will be shown the successful author as in the John Craig contests. If several of the manuscripts prove worthy, influence will...
...prize-winning play should be contracted for by a manager, the usual agent's commission of the author's royalty shall go to the Century Theatre Club to form a fund devoted to money prizes in play competitions. Full information regarding the competition may be obtained from Mrs. A. O. Ihlseng, 541 West 124th street, New York City...
...verse which was always the Monthly's strongest point is in this number unimportant. Gilkey's "Tripoli" is not of his best; it seems perfunctory, and has not beauty or strength to save it. "At a House Party," by Clarence Britten is an attempt to tell one of the author's too-subtle, evanescent short stories in verse; it does not "get there" enough to make it quite worth while. Mr. Thayer's "Adieu" is graceful and meaningless; the "Thoreau" of Rollo Britten is the best verse in the paper. It says something with force and phrasing. Paul Marriet...
...vital or significant enough to balance all the excellent criticism. Delicate, studied, as his stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long for blood and lust even to melodrama...
...Brien, E. J., author...