Word: jourdan
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...high standard of excellence, that it was difficult for the judges to decide upon the best plays. The following were selected after careful consideration: "The Head of the Family" by George Francis Abbott 1G., of Hamburg, N. Y.; "Kid" by Elma Caroline Ehrlich, Radcliffe Sp., of Chicago, III.; "Alaric Jourdan's House" by Ralph Milbourne Townsend 1G., of Wellesley; and "The Foundlings" by Annie Andros Hawley, Radcliffe Sp., of Brookline...
...Townsend has written an intensely moving tragedy in "Alaric Jourdan's House". All the monotonous majesty of the land of the St. Lawrence is felt in the situation involving three tellingly drawn characters, and the play moves with almost classic poise to an inevitable denouement of great power...