Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conception of a missionary. In justice to the old-time missionary, the "average educated man" would do well to read the lives of John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides; of Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from savages into civilized beings, the "average educated man" may choose from...
Twelve books were added as permanent acquisitions to the library of the Union during the month of April. The new additions, which were secured through the Simes Fund, are as follows: "Iceland's Literary Renaissance," by Ernest A. Boyd; "Further Pages of My Life," by W. Boyd Carpenter; "Regiment of Women," by Clarence Dane; "Chiefly Contemporary Dramatists," by Thomas H. Dickinson; "The Plattsburg Manual," by O. O. Ellis and E. B. Gary; "Twenty-Five Years of Massachusetts Politics," by Michael E. Hennessy; "The Issue," by J. W. Headlam; "Why Men Fight," by Bertrand Russell; "The Middle Years," by Katharine Tynan...
...first presentation to the American public of the work of Johann Sigurjonsson by the 47 Workshop in Jordan Hall tonight is full of significance. This play, "Eywind of the Hills," based as it is upon the life and customs of Iceland, introduces a novel note into the American theatre. The play had its first representation in Copenhagen only a few years ago, and never before has any play by this new writer been produced in this country...
...first public performance in America of "Eyvind of the Hills," the Icelandic drama, will be given by the 47 Workshop in Jordan Hall, Boston, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play is being put on by the Workshop at the invitation of the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Scandinavian societies of Boston. It is in four acts by Johann Sigurjonsson, and, based upon historical incidents, it centers around the love story of a victim of the peculiar outlaw code of Iceland...
...play is a stern Icelandic drama in four acts by Johann Sigurjonsson, which has been translated from the origina Danish recently by Henninge K. Schanche. The story is based upon historical events, dealing especially with the peculiar outlaw code of Iceland. These two performances constitute the second of the Thornton M. Ware memorial productions, and the second set of performances given by the Workshop this season...