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...example of a man upon whom the land has made a profound impression. No one who has visited the Wessex country can fall to feel the gloom and sadness that clings to the moorland. All of his novels reflect this sombre tone, and in one the moor itself assumes a vigorous personality, becomes a definite character. Today Mr. Hersey will talk in Emerson 211 at 2 o'clock upon the Hardy Country. He has taken many new pictures during the last summer which will enlighten the provincial and refresh the memory of the cosmopolite. Mr. Hersey has the great gift...
...performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, scenario by Geoffrey Langdon Keynes after the designs of Poet-Artist William Blake, choreography by Dancer Ted Shawn. In eight scenes and an epilog were shown the machinations of Satan (Dancer Shawn) in getting Job (Arthur Moor) to curse God (William Kennedy) for taking from him his family and riches. Though Satan succeeded (as he does not in the Bible story), he was banished by God, driven back to Hell through a gateway which resembled a large dog kennel or a subway entrance. In the epilog...
Scotland, where the sport is best organized, has some 3,000 heather-covered, grouse-infested moors for rent. In prosperous years the gross income from rents has run to $7,500,000. Payments to lodge keepers, beaters and handy men total about the same. An average sized moor costs a hunter all told about $5,000 a month for the season. That is, in Scotland. If he merely wants grouse and is willing to forego social eéclat, he may go on to the Orkneys. There he may rent a stand for as little as $300 cash...
...lack of bags to report last week, newsgatherers reported on field costumes. Gillies, who could get no work from the rich visitors, and moor owners, who could get no renters, went grousing on their own. Grouse they killed were selling last week in Edinburgh at $5 per brace, in Glasgow at $7.50. Those were remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know...
...Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., rector of Calvary Church, one of Princeton's first Buchmanites, declared: "Frank Buchman . . . did more than any other man to bring me to Christ...