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The book by Authors Disney and Mackaye contains only contributions, coaxed from such personages as the presidents of the Lucy Stone League and of the Bush Terminal Co., Authors W. E. Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make...
Last night's vote does not, however, mark a radical innovation in the policy of the club, but merely a reversion to the policy of pre-war days when undergraduate plays were produced exclusively. The first of these undergraduate plays was "The Promised Land," by Allan Davis '07, which was...
Mr. Mackaye calls this new play of his "a comedy of human nature with primitive background," and it is the first of a series of plays by means of which the author intends to continue his efforts to interpret American life in isolated mountain environment. Previously he has written of...
The dialogue is, of course, all mountain dialect, collected by the author at great pains. This dialect is in Mr. Mackaye's words "a noble illiteracy," a language "more flexible than that of the average university graduate," showing "richness of thought and imagination." It is native speech "undiluted by the...
But there is something strangely absent! There is a content with dreary poetical effects which, I hesitate to say, seem sloppy when coming from a man of such great potentiality. At 14 I worshiped Mr. MacKaye. He was the modern drama to me; and if I cry out against an...