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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Every Man's Bit," written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, deals with a British slacker who is reformed and forced to enlist by the occurrence of a Zeppelin raid on London which kills his little girl. The former brutal father and husband is brought to his senses by this tragedy...
...lets, "Every Man's Bit," was written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, a student in Professor G. P. Baker's course on the technique of the drama. The characters in the cast are as follows: Mrs. Brittain, Lillian Hartigan Fanny, Vianna Knowlton, 1918 Workingman, Stoddard Colby '21 Little Girl, Marguerite Barr...
...pages, in which the old millionaire bachelor demonstrates in many successive speeches that he does not appreciate Christmas, he leaves the club and starts for home in his "perfectly appointed car." Presently he learns from his chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless...
...crack or a cracked football eleven. So with William. He has his following, reaching as far down as Saco, Me., doubtless, and whether he has a good or a poor play, his following will turn out to see him triumph over the villains and kiss the prettiest girl in the show. The out-of-town trade may miss the kiss in catching the late train home, for it's the last thing on the program; but that's the play-wright's fault...
...first two acts were rather pretty, but the last one was pretty near the line. Censoring may redeem it, but it will take broad sweeps of the blue pencil. For the story is of Ann, a seminary girl of a century ago in Bath, England, who marries an absorbed astronomer and finds herself running a poor second to the constellations, even before her honeymoon is over. She sets about to bring her husband from lethargy to loving in that third act, and her methods caused nobody to ask how old was Ann. They all knew she was extremely wise...