Word: beggar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...called "an unwavering creative purpose" is again asserting itself. Not that the strokes of the artist are always sure, or his lines and modelling free from false touches or even ugly angles. This is illustrated in the imagistic verses, of which there are two rather ambitious contributions, "The Beggar" and "Lights and Snows"; also in the stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory Look". Nevertheless the workmanship of all these is distinctly good, and what is better, the high seriousness of the verse and the evident sincerity of the prose are joined to subject matter of enough interest and importance to seize...
...Europe, particularly in Spain, where he worked extensively in 1913. The ballad department of the Widener Library owes its position as first among the collections in America largely to Mr. Gay and his brother, the late Frederick Lewis Gay '78. He had arranged that on his death his "Beggar's Opera" collection should go to further enrich the collection at Widener...
...great many take advantage of the class-festivities. One prowler was found "canvassing" in the early morning after class night. In another case, the miscreant was a beggar who stopped men on the way to and from dinner...
...MacKaye's latest play was produced for the first time on any stage at the Shubert Theatre last night and a large and genuinely appreciative audience forgot the commonplace world that buzzed outside the door and lived in a world of grotesquerie and romance, rings and roses with a beggar's wallet thrown in for good measure. Mr. Macrame waved his magic wand and bade us step with him into the Land of Heart's Desire, where men dared all for the love of fair women. And his audience followed him joyously...
...Otis Skinner does the part of Hajj, played abroad by Mr. Oscar Asche, and Miss. Rita Jolivet that of the beggar's daughter Marriah originated by Miss Lily Brayton. It is difficult to suppose that either character could have been better portrayed in the first production than in the present. Mr. Skinner is particularly fitted through long and thorough training to give, as indeed he does, a living Hajj, the Beggar. The staging of the play evidently offered many very difficult problems but these have been met skilfully and effectively; especially is this the case in the scene...