Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Modern Language Conference. "The Grateful Lion," Mr. A. G. Brodeur; "Magic and Witchcraft in the Elizabethan Drama," Mr. H. W. Hoorington. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...play, "Fixing Sister" is not a great contribution to the drama. It is frankly and wholly Mr. Hodge throughout. But there are many clever lines, the scenery is remarkably realistic, and the fact that Mr. Hodge is the most notable thing about is hardly to be wondered at. Certainly the first act drags until he appears,, but thereafter it is plain sailing, steadily working up to the last act, which is by far the best of the four...
...ought to be, applied to the man whose interests are one-fold, whose mind is literally single-tracked. He fails to acquire the human element in culture. Of course, the scholar whose name appears on no University record besides this list and the Directory, may have varied tastes; the drama, or music, or attempting to create literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond the gridiron. But what shall be said of the remaining class, those who are neither "active" nor studious,--and that...
...locale of the piece, which is written in two parts and an introduction, is West 111th street, New York City. The first part contains three scenes each laid on a different floor of a New York boarding house. Each one shows the drama that goes on unnoticed by the outside world. In the play they are the artistic playwright's illustration of what can be dramatized from observation. The second part is the popular Broadway playwright's telescoping of these three scenes and is a lively satire on some of the plays seen in New York last winter...
...three short pieces, "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," by Brieux; "L'Intruse," by Maeterlinck; and "Les Deux Sourds," by Moinaux. This first is a one-act comedy, treating the problem of a mother-in-law's position in the household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death is very near his daughter who is ill. The last play is a typical French farce. A young man pretends to be deaf to win the good graces...