Word: joan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year, under the leadership of Pierre Monteux, the Boston Symphony Orchestra announces the program of soloists for their thirty-ninth season of Thursday evening concerts in Sanders Theatre. The soloists are: Oct. 16, Albert Spalding, violin; Nov. 13, Vera Janacopulos, soprano; Dec. 18, George F. Bayle, plano; Jan. 15, Joan Bedetti, cello; Feb. 12, Martha Baird, piano; March 4. Laura Littlefield, soprano; April 1, Albert Stoessel, violin; April 22, Magdeleine Brard, piano...
...were awarded the two first prizes of $30 each. Their addresses dealt respectively with the "American Standard," taken from a speech of Booker T. Washington '96, and a poem by Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman." Three second prizes of $20 each were also awarded as follows: R. E. Eckstein '20, "Joan of Arc," by Quincy; V. A. Kramer '18 ocC., extracts from a speech of President Wilson on the League of Nations; E. B. Schwults '19, "The Monroe Doctrine." The judges were Dean Fenn, of the Divinity School; Professor J. H. Beale '82; Professor J. L. Lowes...
Signs and portents are seen in the sky, on every side. At Windsor, Ontario, a vast sword-bearing angel has been observed near the zenith, resembling Joan of Arc. By this angel's side was also seen St. Michael, leading starry hosts to victory. Farther north and west than Windsor, the Chippewa Indians have seen their Thunder Bird, their holy and mystic eagle, in the skies, and he, too, was followed by countless sweeping hosts. And much nearer home, the Winged Victory was seen marching athwart the skies the other night, a flaming sword in her hand, and advancing...
...effect, is, from the strategic point of view, extremely puzzling. We do not know whether Miss Macpherson is responsible for the battle scenes, but we fear the "love interests" in the photo-play must be laid to her charge. Everything that was miraculous and lovable in the character of Joan was not enough for Miss Macpherson. Not at all; she is a dramatist. So she has seen fit to force on the Maid of France a love affair with an English soldier. Shakespere, another dramatist, always sensitive to the public taste, took similar liberties with the character of Joan...
...divine enough in historic fact, without adding sugary heroics in order to pamper a public taste as cheap as dirt. The crime of her trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers. There seemed to be a vague impression in the audience that...