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...Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, C. B., D. S. 0., who is in addition the younger brother of Ireland's mystic dramatist Lord Dunsany...
...Admiral's widowed mother, to increase the inheritance legally adopted the names of every visible relative in 1905. Dramatist Dunsany inherited the title and Irish properties, leaving the residuary estate and nomenclature to Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who in 1916 adopted his mother's last three names to inherit the inherited estates...
...curious that "The Case for Tragedy" does not once mention either of the modern playwrights who might he considered tragic dramatists of serious stature: Tchekor and Synge. It is curious and unfortunate, for Tchekor at least would have given some support to Mr. Harris' thesis. But the work of both of them might have suggested that the possibility of tragic drama today is a problem for the isolated dramatist to solve in creation, not for the literary critic with a special theory to plead...
...word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand...
...John Gallishaw, soldier, instructor, and author, will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum on "Problems Peculiar to the Dramatist." Mr. Gallishaw comes to Harvard under the auspices of the 47 Club of which Miss Alberta Roach is president...