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Shortly after the completion of his medical training, he was drawn to active interests in, and work for, seamen. It came naturally to him, for his forbears had been "fighting men from Cornwall and Devon", who had "followed the old admirals, from Drake and Howard and Releigh to Rodney, Boscawen and Nelson." The physical danger of the seamen's trade, and their splendid courage, fascinated him. Their helplessness before the "vampires" who prayed on them, was a challenge ringing in his ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along...
...Saxon history, with heroic ideals looming in twilit feudal minds. Aethelwold, the king's foster-brother, prepares to ride into the 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...
...king, a vassal sent a-wooing. The first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies...
...Millay's greatest achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden...
...world's ends a speech which he made in London before the Institute of Marine Engineers. The speech would not have mattered had it not been so very typical of Baron Kylsant. Because he came to shipping not from the sea but from Newton College, South Devon, he has not the mariner's longing to do everything in "the good old way," but sees ships, as landsmen do, chiefly as a means to get men, food and merchandise from one dry place to another...