Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DARK OF THE MOON-Sara Teas-dale-Macmillan ($1.50). The sea, it is said, is the great civilizer. Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger) of St. Louis, Mo., has walked and lain long beside it, learning over and over the sea's "immemorial yearning" until it has become her own. Rest from restless beauty is her desire. Her best poems are fragile meshes of silence and loneliness, written on beaches, cliffs and sea-hills, at the days rare moments and the year's empty seasons. Then, she says, I shall gather myself into myself again...
Illustrations for Poe, illustrations for Oscar Wilde, illustrations for the Yellow Book-marvelously adroit and facile pen and inks. "Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots. None of Beardsley's more obscene drawings are part of the sale...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...
Several other roles in the play will be filled by veteran actors of former years. The part of Sganerello belongs to K. A. Perry '28, who was a member of the east of "The Moon is a Gong", John Dos Passos' play which the Dramatic Club produced two years ago prior to its appearance on Broadway. D. L. Dickson '27, who will take the part of one of the stately ambassadors in the Italian piece, has played in every production of the Dramatic Club, including the miracle plays, since his Freshman year. Beside the ambassador's part, Dickson will play...
Edward Massey '15 is coaching the play. Mr. Massey is a former coach of Dramatic Club productions, but was absent last year, when he directed "The Moon is a Gong" on the New York stage...