Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...little recognized here what merit such institutions as the University of Virginia, Tulane, and Vanderbilt represent. They can receive professors from the North in all respects on a plane of equality, which, if tipped at all, is likely to move in the South's favor, by the grace of that refinement if culture for which Southerners of position have ever been famous. It is false to assume that the material problems of reconstruction after the war ever obscured from the minds of the most intelligent Southerners those things of the mind and the spirit which make for the most enduring...
...slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge of tragedy, we are appealed to from a variety of feelings...
...represents the hospitality of the whole class. No representation that is anything less than representation and complete can be successful. So far, a remarkably small number of men have returned their applications. Today was scheduled as the last day for these blanks to be returned. The period of grace has been extended, and applications will be received through Monday...
...comedy stars the composers are to be congratulated in securing a man of Mr. Vernon Stiles ability to present their offering. His voice is rich, powerful, and full of the lyrical emotion so essential in a romantic Irish hero. Others in the cast, notably Scott Welsh, Olga Roller, and Grace Breen, also have excellent voices...
...cast--Miss Grace George has finely appreciated the role of Barbara, and does more than justice to the part. From enthusiasm to discouragement, she is always the artist, and the noticeable suppression of ranting and rank melodrama is quite evident. Barbara is a dignified character and Miss George makes her fascinatingly so. Mr. Ernest Lawford as Adolphus Cusins is very successful, and his interpretation of the Greek professor could not well be improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested...