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Laid bare, the plot itself could close the play fast. An aging and broke London fop, Sir Harcourt Courtly, plans to marry a country miss, Grace Harkaway, for her money. But before he can get Grace to the altar, his dashing and disobedient son Charles falls in love with her. He arranges to draw off Sir Harcourt with a fresh scent, the county's hardest rider to hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only...
...feeling that Mr. Cahill is too much of an eclectic in his tastes, that he is too anxious to hear all sides. Hence, at the end notably, and in many other places elsewhere, he seems to be merely cataloging names--the sonorous cognomens of Abastonia St. Leger Eberle, Minna Harkaway, and Renee Prahar are included in the head-roll of those women sculptors who "have done good work"; the names of the Bright Young Men are also quite as resonant: Albino Cavallito, Oronzio Maldarelli, and Polygnotos Vagis. One would have liked more criticism...
...achieved no little success as a prolific writer of western thrillers for the Beadle & Adams publications. He was nearing the end of his rope of ideas when in 1895 Street & Smith, publishers, proposed the juvenile series about a single character who "should have a name like Dick Lightheart, Jack Harkaway, Gay Dashleigh." Author Patten, aspiring to be a playwright, seized upon the plan as a "potboiler." He conceived his hero: "His face was frank, open and winning but the merry light that . . . dwelt in his eyes. . . ." Frank Merriwell was born April...
...follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...
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