Word: loved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...love steals softly in through the applause...
...Love Triumphant," by F. L. Knowles...
...religious old Boer farmer, who demands patriarchal obedience from his household and enforces it with the lash. Deborah escapes a flogging with a lie concerning her condition. Later she is forced to tell the truth, and her husband resolves to kill her. The young English overseer, who is in love with Deborah, saves her by shooting her husband. In the last act, in spite of a wife in England, and a too curious relative of the dead man, matters are straightened out and the curtain falls upon a happy future for the Shulamite and her English lover...
...success or failure of the play; and Miss Marie Immisch proved herself fully equal to her very exhausting and difficult part. Her rendering was throughout a highly emotional, rather than a finished intellectual one, and she was at her best in depicting the struggle between her mother's love and her desire for revenge; a struggle which ends in the murder of her two children. She expressed well the barbarian nature which is the under lying cause of the unhappiness of her marriage with Jason, but she failed to convey the supernatural element in Medea. Mr. Carl Machold...
...Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill" is an interesting review, especially in its final pages. Though the style often shows an imperfect sense of the value of words, the writer's evident love of literature, his sympathy with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...