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Great as M. Hugues Le Roux's successes have been as a journalist, novelist, sociologist and dramatist, it is as a conversationalist and orator that he is particularly noted in France. His language is full of poetry and color, and his diction is extremely clear. He has already spoken in all the capitals of Europe with a success which will undoubtedly be equalled in the United States...
...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...
...first article, "Mr. Pinero and. "The Gay Lord Quex'", by J.P. White, is a thoroughly adequate narrative of Mr. Pinero's progress as a dramatist and a carefully considered criticism of "The Gay Lord Quex." To those who saw and enjoyed the play this winter, the article serves the useful purpose of fixing "The Gay Lord Quex" in the literary drama and of showing its close relation to the work of other dramatists and novelists...
...presented in Sanders Theatre on March 22. This play was selected because of the fitness in giving precedence to Germany's greatest poet, of the intrinsic beauty of the play, and of the fact that, for students of Greek or of Comparative Literature, the treatment by a modern dramatist of a theme that had been handled by Euripides offers much interest. Furthermore, the simplicity of the stage-setting and the small number of actors are well adapted to the limitations of Sanders Theatre. Mr. Conried's company is excellent, and he has recently engaged one or two actors especially fitted...
...Schilling, Early Teutonic Life; January 15, Professor F. W. Taussig, The Currency Situation; January 22, Professor J. H. Wright, A Famous Greek Painting (illustrated); January 29, Professor L. E. Gates, Books which are no Books; February 19, Professor G. P. Baker, The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist; March 5, Rev. C.C. Everett, Buddha and Buddhism; March 12, Dr. F. N. Robinson (subject to be announced...