Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...store for him. Neither the impending loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves...
...only when his own son, Andrewtells him that it was he, not Jimmy Caesar, who shot Withrow, that the old man breaks down and thinks of nothing but Andrew's escape. But the courage of the younger generation in Andrew tells Hannah comes to fortify the old, and the ideals which are temporarily shattered in the mother's cry of "I don't wan God's will, I want my son!" are regained John Ferguson "carries on"; his fortitude remains supreme...
John Ferguson and his son have opposite philosophies of life, but they are united in that finest of all human bond which can come only to men who live their convictions. In Jimmy Caesar. Ervine paints three weaknesses which every man must fight; physical coward ice, life in dreams rather than in reality and a realization of fault without action to eradicate it. The play makes one weave into it one's own failings. That it why it is so strong...
...rate gift of acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...
...would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting down verbatim the translation...