Word: love-sick
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...theatre-goers, if not to Britons, Olga Nethersole is famed as a pre-War figure of Wickedness-on-the-Stage for her work in Sapho, a play she picked in 1900 because she thought it was romantic and beautiful for a love-sick bumpkin to carry a lush, mournful harlot upstairs to bed (see cut). The U. S. Press, on the other hand, decided it was shameless, stupid or funny. Miss Nethersole, a onetime governess, was tried in Manhattan on a charge of committing a public nuisance, was easily acquitted. Comedians Weber & Fields put on a burlesque of the stair...
Alas, how few of us know what love-sick students find shelter within our cloistered walls. That they should break out in rhyme is understandable. But that they should expose their bleeding hearts to the scrutiny of the public eye for a cash reward--how ignoble and unworthy does the compensation seem. The letter printed below received a dollar prize in the "Traveller" Love Letter Contest but it seems a small reward for the budding poet who finds his "beloved" more noble than the "peacock...
...Hollis, one may discover, is not L'Opera, "Patience" is not Wagnerian, it is not the height of the season even in Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient...
...time journalist. The frivolous Baltimoreans did little to endanger the laurels of adroit Producer Winthrop Ames; on the other hand, their performance did little to justify gloomy anticipations and only the most frenzied Savoyards were heard to complain of the way in which the chorus yodeled: "Twenty love-sick maidens we, love-sick all against our will, twenty years hence we will be twenty love-sick maidens still...
...emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes Oscar Wildian esthetics, which it quite drove out of business. Precious Poet Bunthorne captivates 20 lovesick maidens but not milkmaid Patience, whose true love is a simpler fellow, Poet Grosvenor. Her example sends the love-sick maidens to the arms of robust Dragoons...