Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davison '06, of the Music Department, Professor J. L. Lowes '03, of the English department, and G. H. Edgell '09 Professor of the Fine Arts department will present the first question, while K. F. Mather, Associate Professor of Physiography, and Dr. John Reach Stratton of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, will argue the second...
...white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned out in the trials of life." William Green, mine worker, Odd Fellow, Elk, Baptist, was at once chosen his successor as president...
Repertory--"John the Baptist"--8.15 o'clock...
...custom as well as the privilege of a drama uplift organization like the Repertory is to bite off larger pieces than it can chew. "John The Baptist," adapted by Frances Jewett from the "Johanues" of Hermann Sudermann, turned out to be quite a mouthful and was mangled with more or less success. The theme is worthy of the effort and one can admire the courage if not the discretion of the Repertory players in attempting it. The result to be truthful, was hard to digest...
...story of the Baptist-Prophet, is undoubtedly fraught with emotionalism, and the intensity of feeling, the suffering and anticipation which permeate the facts of his life, and the lives of his followers, were in some measure caught by Sudermann. The Repertory version catches even less of that spirit. Melo-drama vies with the ridiculous, approaching farce, where only dignity and religious feeling were intended. The mania for making the unreal appear real, for putting Hamlet in plus fours, can amuse but hardly impress. Perhaps there were wise-cracking merchants in Israel but we can't believe they had Irish-Mayfair...