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...usual on such occasions. It seems hardly necessary to add that great credit is due those responsible for the production, for this time the performance really speaks for itself. It is fairly rare that a first night goes off with such smoothness and on the whole with such distinction. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...contributions in verse outnumber those in prose. Indeed the issue is a veritable nest of singing-birds. The two poems already mentioned well represent the creditable average of all this verse. One contribution, "The Fiddler," by Cuthbert Wright, rises distinctly above it in a certain sureness and aptness in dealing with a topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle...
...people say the French are gay? CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...Church curate, is appropriately preposterous but no more preposterous than people like that are in reality. We should add that Mr. Shaw's sentimental hatred of sentimentality is occasionally a little boring. Altogether it is as fine a production as we are likely to see in this imperfect age. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
This criticism applies to Mr. Fay's story of "The Penitent Highwayman," to "The Festive Season," which could appear with slight verbal changes in the Christmas number of any college paper year after year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard...