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Home Fires. This final play of Owen Davis' trilogy of domestic American existence (The Detour and Icebound preceding) is the least worth while. In attempting to satirize suburban domesticity Mr. Davis has erred in sacrificing his deeper theme for surface laughter. The commuter who attends Home Fires does not rush from the theatre to the railroad station pointing an accusing finger at himself and sobbing " guilty." Yet the lines are undeniably amusing; Mr. Davis has fed them to the flames in sufficient quantities to keep Homes Fires burning on Broadway for some time...
...written, by and large, over 100 plays. Many of them have been melodramatic thrillers in which the actors tore the scenery and heroes flung themselves valiantly before hissing villains. Mr Davis has now chosen to become a realist. Two seasons ago he wrote a grim drama called The Detour and was canonized by the critics. Last year his Icebound, a genuinely human picture of his native Maine folks, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His place among American dramatists is therefore assured, along with Eugene O'Neill's. I like the plays of Owen Davis. They are keen, humorful...
...industry in the other subjects. And yet what was the real nature of the ardent request filed by the Yale News, if its editors could only have known it? It was in fact an appeal for a Short-Cut to Knowledge. As wiser heads know, there is no such detour. The path of the regular curriculum is the one highway leading to the real Castle of Comprehension, if it leads anywhere at all. The students say they want the road. Cannot they be made to see what that way is by the guidance of the discussion groups? --Boston Transcript...
...award of distinctions won by students in Harvard College during the academic year of 1903-1904 will be held in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock this evening. Seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the Faculty, and those on the floor for scholarship, prize and detour winners and for former winners of Bowdoin prizes. The first balcony will be reserved for invited guests and members of the University until 7.50 o'clock, when it will be thrown open to the public. The second balcony will be open to the public throughout...
This plan, simple and effective, was carried out to the letter. With unrivalled skill, Sherman made a long detour, and, wholly unexpected, gained a strong foothold on Bragg's right. Thom as also advanced and took a firm stand on the foot-hills. It was then, profiting by Bragg's confusion, that Hooker made his brilliant capture of Lookout Mountain. His troops had to move painfully around the edge of the mountain from west to east, before they could so much as find a place for ascent. At last they reached a winding cart-track, and up they went, until...