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...Thousand Years Ago," by Percy MacKaye '97, author of the "Scarecrow" and "Tomorrow," will be given its first-night production at the Shubert Theatre this evening. The play is a poetic romance the basic legend of which has been treated before by Gozzi, the Italian dramatist, and by Schiller. Last year, as produced by Reinhardt with his new scenery, the Gozzi-Schiller version, which is called "Turandot," had a great vogue in Germany. But when brought to this country and tried out on the American public it failed. It was then suggested that Mr. MacKaye was the right person...
Winthrop Wetherbee '87, of Boston, will act as toastmaster and the following men will speak: Professor W.A. Neilson '96, of the department of English; W.R. Thayer '81, an editor of the Graduates' Magazine; W.G. Peckham '67, the founder of the Advocate; C.S. Dazey '81, a prominent dramatist; A.S. Pier '95, editor of the Youths' Companion; G.W. Gray '12, of Houston, Tex.; and H.R. Peterson '13, of Barnstable...
...Greek at the University of Chicago, delivered the third of the Lane lectures on "Life and Letters at Athens" in Emerson D yesterday evening, taking as his subject "The Case of Euripides." Dr. Shorey discussed the Case of Euripides, giving a criticism of Euripides as a thinker, a dramatist and a poet...
...thought. But it is the difficulties encountered in the translation of his works that leads to the charge of pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...
...hold the attention of the audience, even during the expository scenes; but the applause that the play calls forth must be gratifying alike to the author and to the actors. It is easy enough to find fault,--perhaps that is why so many of us are ready to: no dramatist can ask for greater appreciation than the close attention of his audience; and this Mr. Savery...