Word: edens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against...
...boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like Hell's lava; in the kermesse scene, he spun circles about the stage, silently, slowly, like Eden's snake risen from its belly. The cast supporting him had undergone changes for the better since last season: Antonia Cortis was a new, competent Faust; Claudia Muzio a tenderer Marguerite than the sprightly Edith Mason...
...FARMER'S WIFE?Mr. and Mrs Coburn in a robustly amusing comedy of rural England by Eden Phillpotts. Whom should a widower marry...
...rolled up scholarly sleeves and has planted a garden where no archaisms grow. For exactly what reasons he believes that "a barge of cypress wood wit cabin accommodations" is more appropriate than ark, or that the term, park, is more comprehensible to modern readers than the Garden of Eden, remains somewhat of a mystery...
...Farmer's Wife. Eden Phillpotts takes you casually by the hand and bids you meet Samuel Sweetland of Devonshire. He bids you meet Mr. Sweetland in that interesting period of later life when he is seeking a wife. He introduces you in passing to the several single ladies of Mr. Sweetland's acquaintance who he believes will promote his placid happiness. For reasons that seem neither good nor sufficient, these ladies one by one give Mr. Sweetland what is vulgarly described as "the air." In the end, Mr. Sweetland's comely housekeeper gives him her promise true...