Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
...concert of the Pierian Sodality orchestras will be held in Sanders Theatre May 5 at 8 o'clock. Tickets were put on sale yesterday at $1.50, $1, and 50 cents a the Co-operative Branch and at Russell 14. The program, which is now being arranged, will consist of modern compositions. One of the features will be a symphony by Paul Dukas never before played in the United States. The Petite Suite," by Debussy, will also be played
Miss Amy Lowell's article in the "New Republic" on "The New Manner in Modern Poetry" is held up to scorn by Mr. Bullock. He exposes the fallacy of the "Externalists" who suppose that it is ever possible to be "interested in things for themselves, and not because of the effect they have upon oneself"; he disputes the pretension of the Imagists to have done away with egoism. Mr. Bullock is a little too hard on the Imagists, but not nearly so hard as they are on all their rivals. In general, the public is now folerant enough of their...
...Head of the Poet Laureate" is a tale in which Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
Miss Allen was excellent as the quiet, simple-minded heroine; Mr. Roope as her changeable lover acted skilfully in a part none too clearly drawn; Miss May and Mr. Hammond were spirited and sufficiently ultra-modern...