Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Modern Language Conference. "The Child Actors of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Mr. H. N. Hillebrand. "The Influence of French Drama on the English Drama of the First Forty Years of the Nineteenth Century." Mr. Maicolm McLeod. Conant Common Room...
...performance than to enjoy the plays themselves. The audience cannot be honestly said to have appreciated the merits of the first piece, Mr. Brock's "The Bank Account"; but it warmed to Mr. Kinkead's satirical farce, "The Fourflushers," and received Mr. E. L. Beach's war-time drama, "The Clod" with really enthusiastic ardor. Thus the twelfth production of the Club, though begun somewhat gloomily, ended as successfully as any,--which is no slight achievement...
...which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury of righteousness, and, without knowing it, becomes a national heroine. This may be melodrama in its superficial appearance, but at bottom it is something far better. I am greatly mistaken if "The Clod" is not the best one act drama that has been seen here for several years, and if it has not all the essential qualities of well merited success on the professional stage. ERNEST BERNBAUM
...Beach's play, in contrast to his farcical "Let's Get Married" which the club presented in the fall, is written in serious vein. The plot hinges upon the struggle of a woman's "almost atrophied will with events that demand forceful direction." "The Bank Account" is a drama of modern scene depicting the destruction of an office drudge's hopes by his wife's financial mismanagement. "The Fourflushers," the only comedy of the three deals with a domestic situation of humorous complexity...
...Harvard Monthly enters on a fifty-eighth volume with unfortunate emphasis of Mr. Moyse's immoderate panegyric on Clayton Hamilton. Its would-be maturity of vocabulary coupled with "superfluent enthusiasm" and disproportion in criticizing the Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the writer who seeks to hide in phraseology a poverty of ideas. The number proves worth while mainly in the diverting episodic sketch by Mr. Nathan, certainly in lighter vein, but well characterized and constructed with better sense of dramatic values than the same writer's dialogue, "The Coward." In this...