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...build up choral climaxes which helped atone for the weak orchestral moments. The Puritans' rugged, hymnlike theme dominated but there was a fetching, comic interlude when the Cavaliers fed firewater to the Indians, prepared for a May Pole dance on Merry Mount. The love-motif for Wrestling Bradford sounded strangely like "Limehouse Blues...
...season, sang the heretic clergyman's music in a voice marvelously smooth and strong. Soprano Leonora Corona made a pneumatic Cavalier siren even in her formal, up-to-date evening dress. Demure Rose Bamplon was Plentiful Tewke, the Puritan maiden who was not quite tempting enough for Wrestling Bradford...
...Bradford Simmons...
...Chase '34, J. H. Dean '34, H. G. Pearson Jr. '34, Francis Gleason '34, J. T. Higgins '34, Richard Bassett '34, J. T. Morse '34, Atreus von Schrader '34, A. B. Hallowell '34, E. K. Salls '34, G. H. Damon '34, C. A. Pescosolido '34, Paul de Give '34, Bradford Simmons '34, Roger Martin '34, D. S. Carmichael '35, E. F. Bowditch '35, C. F. Woodard '35, H. H. Brewster '35, D. W. Lewis '35, Herman Gundlach '35, F. P. Whitheck...
...first half-year deals with American writers up through Poe and Cooper, the majority of whom fall into the Colonial period. While such men as Mather, Edwards, and Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...