Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lady Constance Lytton, 54, militant suffragist and daughter of the first Earl of Lytton at London. She was imprisoned four times for her militant activities, twice went on a hunger strike, was forcibly...
Honor where honor is due--and no one will deny it to these loyal nurses. The literature of the South, from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" down, is full of reverence for their services. Famous nurses are plentiful in literary annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland...
...eighty-three years Bulwer Lytton's "Richelieu" has had a lease on the English stage. The melodrama will inevitably complete a full ninely-nine year lease and then, unworthily, gain a renewal. Its life has been long, not because of any particular merits of the play as a drama of character, beautiful verse, or deep significance, but because the part of the Cardinal affords excellent opportunities to an actor. For that reason alone it has survived on the stage, and escaped its deserved fate as a piece for the class-room illustrating the theatrical tastes of our grandfathers that helped...
...play gained little in production. The story of Richelieu's intrigues, the love affair of Adrian De Mauprat and Julie De Mortemar, and Baradas' conspiracy against the weakling Louis XIII is too well known to be repeated. But to that story, brimful of striking theatric effects which Macready aided Lytton in devising, little sense of the dramatic and cumulative was brought by Mr. Mantell and his company...
...already been given. It is the triumph of his extensive repertoire; a part in which he, personally, equals the greatest of our classical actors. He looks the part to perfection and his acting is remarkable for the quiet dignity and pathetic grandeur with which he so vividly portrays Bulwer-Lytton's conception of the greatest prime minister of history...