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Felix Nawn, conscientious, silent, inarticulate, is reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...
...Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that he is in the pay of a foreign power, on one can expect Mayor Thompson to believe such a patent effort at deceit...
...that sort of thing can go only so far. She played the part of a music hall dancer who contrived to get herself adopted by a Baroness in order to marry a wealthy English youth. Five minutes before the wedding the youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...
...witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury. . . and a ghastly failure. . . . "His first† budget was a rich man's budget, his second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit. . . .† Finally, the blame...
...dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such a tragedy belies human nature and should hinge more heavily on the sex motif. Which objection misses the gist of a drama laid...