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Finally the constricted English village whose smug hyprocrisy has been shattered by the angel decides he must go. He does, in an Elijah-like blaze of glory, being burnt while saving the housemaid's brat. Thereupon everything turns out to be just a dream of a country vicar, going up in smoke...
...goes about the demonstration of his theory by discovering a household full of selfish brats in incipient stages of art and matrimony. Father, who has paid the bills for 25 or 27 years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...
...tender age and inexperience, "The Brat" is remarkably surefooted and bright. Heralded by no great blare of publicity and sneaking into town under cover of a blizzard came this little comedy, chuck full of laughter and flesh and blood humor. It came as manna in our wilderness of "shows." The play for some moments seems about to trail off into the ordinary ruck of "he be-friends, she loves, they marry" playlets, but the characters meant more to the author than did gentle stage tradition, so she let them work out their salvation. The result was a sincere little play...
...Brat" is a waif--you never know her name, she herself has probably forgotten it--is picked hungry from the gutter to serve as model for a writer of best-sellers. He is hailed as a genius by his family, sought by all the females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat...
...college student for his conservatism. The Alumni Bulletin quotes, for example, the following from a recent book by John Macy '99: "Nothing could be more solidly conservative than American undergraduate youth. Many Russian students are rebels. But American universities can be trusted not to bring forth a revolutionary brat--their twilight sleep is perpetual." The Bulletin disagrees, and gives some instances to prove that there is no "lack either of professors and students with thoughts of their own, or of avenues for their self-expression...