Word: french
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nephew--the blacksheep of the family. Ranson returns unannounced from Africa and after regaining the respect of his uncle, sacrifices his future to save his cousin Jacques from suicide. As a result the adventurer gains the hand of Genevieve. The play gives a well-drawn picture of French political life and although of a serious nature, it is relieved throughout by amusing dialogue and humorous situations...
Albert Spalding, violinist, will be the chief soloist at a concert for the benefit of the relief fund for French musicians at Copley Hall tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. The other artists will be John Powell, pianist, and Andre Benoist, accompanist. The concert will be held under the auspices of the Department of Music of the University. Tickets at one dollar and two dollars may be obtained at Copley Hall, Herrick's and Amee's Bookstore...
...unfair, yet "Somebody's Luggage" is of a weight so nicely fitted to the shoulders of its audience that we may be pardoned for the roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading character to be funny...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and author, will lecture on "The Human Side of French Warfare" in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tickets at one dollar may be obtained at Amee's and at the door, the proceeds of the lecture going to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee, which supplies medical materials for the Harvard Surgical Unit in France...
...William H. Forbes, of Milton, has presented the University the working model in clay for the marble statue of her father, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, made by Daniel Chester French, and now standing in the Free Library of Concord. Other statues by the same sculptor are those of the Minute Man in Concord, and John Harvard in Cambridge...