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...Joan the Woman," a photo-play founded on the life of "that good maid whom Englishmen burned at Rouen," was presented last night for the first time in Boston with Mme. Farrar in the title role. The prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee...
...belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers. There seemed to be a vague impression in the audience that the Germans were some how responsible. We should add that the piece is exceptionally well acted, but marred by some excessively feeble, sugary music, which continues throughout. Altogether...
...shown his unusual capacity for observing and analyzing the traits, tendencies and distinguishing peculiarities of Americans and Englishmen in his recent article "Getting Together," in the Outlook. A question frequently asked, he states, is "Why can't you people in England be a bit kinder in your attitude toward us here in America?" In replying, the author invents a dialogue between an American and an Englishman. The Briton extenuates his attitude on the hypothesis that "he that is not for us is against us," and since America has withheld an official endorsement of the Allied cause, the influence is unfavorable...
...four miles on a fast current. We have at most of our rowing colleges, been for years rowing a distance which seems unsuited to our climatic conditions, our natural physiological temperament, and to the local conditions prevailing at most of our rowing colleges, merely because under entirely different circumstances, Englishmen have developed a four-mile tradition...
...forth to preach any ringing gospel of peace and good will. They have returned to their respective fatherlands uninspired to lead the world. Their love of England has not been increased merely because they have benefited by the posthumous philanthropy of one of the most intensely English of all Englishmen. It is conceivable and probable that the knowledge gained at Oxford by some of the German Rhodes scholars is now being used against England...