Word: misses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action there is not a false or jarring note in all the tragic story. As this piece was far and away the best of the evening--if not the best the club has ever produced--so the acting in it was immeasurably superior to that which preceded and followed. Miss Gragg, as the wife, was strong and convincing, perhaps her manner might have been more spontaneous, less charted, but her voice and facial expression were excellent. Mr. Woodward represented a man of stone, unemotional, silent; Mr. Searle a sly, evil, cowardly lover; both were well-nigh perfect. "Alaric Jourdan...
...Miss Ehrlich's Play...
...Miss Ehrlich, proved a very interesting flashlight of the lowly in their more exalted moods. The undergraduate of a few years ago clung to evening clothes when he dipped into make-believe. The mucker by the subway's brim, a stupid mucker was to him. Then Mr. Sheldon proved that the mucker might be drama, and after him--the deluge. The action of "Kid" passes in a subway station represented by an admirable back drop new in the club's repertoire. The lines of this human little piece are not always successful, the lingo of the streets is dragged...
...bill closed with "The Foundlings," adapted by Miss Hawley from a magazine story. This is a piffling, inconsequential thing, lacking any witty lines, yet it may amuse some people. It is Somerset Maugham minus the epigrams. Those who played it seemed to be having a good time, notably Miss Munroe and Mr. Pichel. The staging of all four pieces was admirable...
...Sixth organ recital by Mr. Samuel Carr, assisted by Miss Alice Robbins Cole, in Andover Chapel...