Word: faune
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...great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such defunct immortals as Shelley, Dante and Sir Thomas Browne. A curate meets a Faun. A very worthy man attempt- ing to bring up his young fiancee by hand is aghast to see her escape from respectability into that other kingdom where the dryads of the Greeks still live and are happy. An eerie beauty quickens these six brief tales...
...Shaw's latest and wittiest play to see our stage was presented Monday for the first time in Boston, by Mr. Faversham and his wonderful company. Mr. Faversham, having essayed, in the immediate past, the roles of a faun, a gentleman gambler and a barbaric king, was quite at his best last night as a bishop of the Anglican Church. Until recently, the dramatic tradition of the English stage has tacitly and unalterably ordained that a clergyman of that religious body should invariably be a pompous and platitudinous ass. Mr. Shaw and Mr. Faversham, being men of the world...
...Army on a street corner. Even with the glorious liberty which his verse allows, must he resort to such rhymes as "tune" and "importune"? A short, vivid tale by Mr. H. S. Rogers, however, tells an old story and tells it well. Anonymity shields the author of "The Young Faun," who depicts not merely an afternoon, but several of the last mornings and evenings of the wild creature's life. "Shoes of Unity" is the name Mr. Littell gives his composition which, in spite of some harsh transpositions and prose lines that mar his attempt at simplicity, is a good...
...January number of the Monthly is, despite some falterings, pagan in spirit as well as form. Not only do the faun and Bacchus sport upon the cover, but also there is keen sincerity in the written work. If the contributors are almost always conscious in their pose and if sometimes the strain is over-obvious, this is no fault of theirs: in our world sanity cannot be unconscious...
...Chabrier 3. Selection, "The Legend of Lora-via," Hasty Pudding Play, V. Freedley '14 4. Selection, "A Bug in a Rug" 1914 Pi Eta Play, W. Faulkner '14. L. G. del Castillo '14 5. March, "Harvardianna," S. B. Steel '14 6. Waltz, "The Beautiful Blue Danube," Strauss 7. a) Faun Dance from the panto-mine, "Pan and the Star," E. B. Hill '94 b) At Sea, Buck Harvard Glee Club, H. W. Frost '14, Accompanist 8. American Fantasy, Herbert Organ, Mr. Marshall. 9. Organ Solo, Toccata, (Suite Go-thique), Boellman William H. Barnes, '14. 10. Selection, "Lo Boheme," Puccini...