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Cosmo Hamilton, English novelist and dramatist, will visit Harvard tomorrow afternoon, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Hamilton, the author of many popular novels and the dramatizer of "Pickwick", which will be played in Boston next week, will talk in Sever 11 at 2 o'clock. All students of the University are invited to attend...
...ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring", for which as in his other operas he himself wrote the librette, he sets forth, for example, his idea of an idyllic state of society not dissimilar to that...
...Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with the $35,000 Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg, (1849-1912) is famed for his bitter efforts to counteract the Scandinavian feminist movement fostered by Dramatist Henrik Ibsen of Norway...
...famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there...