Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Advertised as an historical romance, "A King of Nowhere," which came to the Shubert last night, is rather to be classed as a mock heroic. The play is ridiculously melodramatic and in most cases hopelessly over-acted. There is a great deal of stamping of feet and waving of arms, and Mr. Lou-Tellegen's arms are so long that one is sometimes reminded of the proverbial windmill...
...scene is laid at the court of King Henry VIII of England at the time when that jovial monarch is enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. At the court is Godred, a Celtic knight, detained in the palace as a prisoner of war. Godred is a heroic figure; a typical "man who knows no fear...
...King Henry being out of sorts over the failure of the royal pond to yield him fish, summons Godred before him. In a fit of anger at the latter's boldness he orders him to be shot at sunrise, only in this case "shot" means "beheaded." Only on one condition may his life be spared,--namely, if the Lady Margaret Silchester consents to be his wife. She, dean thing, consents out of pity, only to be refused by the haughty Godred, who swears that he would rather die than live without "love, love, love...
...last act takes place in an ante-room in Hampton Court Palace. King Henry is here seen at his best and kept the audience in high good humor over his buffoonery. The act closes with the heroine in the hero's arms and a ridiculous clap-trap stage device showing the Celtic shores appearing through the royal tapestry on the walls...
...Kasai, Ph.B. (Univ. of Chicago) 1913; Charles Pierce Kendall, A.B. 1902; William Fergus Kernan, A.B. (Tulane Univ.) 1912; Aram Hovhannes Khachadoorian, S.B. 1913; Patrick Francis Kirby, A.B. (Catholic Univ. of America) 1914; Edward Lipkin, A.B. 1914; Chauncey Chester Loomis, A.B. 1915; Hyme Loss, A.B. (Univ. of Minnesota) 1910; Hermon King Murphey, A.B. (Amherst Coll.) 1913; Victor Reinstein, A.B. 1912; Kenneth Allan Robinson, A.B. (Bowdoin Coll.) 1914; Geddes William Rutherford, A.B. (Univ. of Missouri) 1913; Oscar Baxter Ryder, A.B. (Richmond Coll.) 1908, A.M. (ibid.) 1909; John Terrill Scott, A.B. (Randolph-Macon Coll.) 1914; Robert Montgomery Stephenson, A.B. (De Pauw Univ...