Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...made telling use of his setting. The buoyant and graceful "travel paper" of Arminius "Concerning Watering Places Mostly German," which alluringly conjures up the atmosphere of the Continental Spa, is refreshing after so much that is subdued or gloomy (even Mr. Green's story has a dying mother in the background) and one is grateful, too, for the pure fun of Mr. H. H. Brown's "Vi et Armis." The "Afterglow," by Mr. Peter Willard, a subjective description tinged with real reminiscent and visionary tone, is the masterpiece of the number. Though the idea is sufficiently hackneyed (the vision...
...family is again turned to rejoicing by Don Manuel's promise to look out for them all. The cast is as follows: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M.H. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G.E. Hyde '09 Pepito, his friend, H.W. Packer 1L. Dona Paz, Consuelo's mother, J. Murdoch, Jr., 1G. Don Cleto, Pepe's father, G. Rivera, Jr., '09 Don Manuel, Pepito's millionaire uncle from Cuba, E.F. Schwartzenburg 2L. Domingo, negro servant of Don Manuel, D.N. Robinson...
...plot deals with the fortunes of Pepe, a poor and ambitious young painter, who, after finishing a painting, goes out to sell it. Both Pepito, his ease-loving friend, and Consuelo, his wife, are confident that he will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this...
...cast of the play is: Pepe, a poor young artist of Madrid, M. K. Woolman '09 Consuelo, his wife, G. E. Hyde '09 Pepito, his friend, H. W. Packer 1L. Dona Paz, Consuelo's mother, J. Murdoch, Jr., 1G. Don Cleto, Pepe's father, G. Rivera, Jr., '09 Don Manuel, Pepito's millionaire uncle from Cuba, E. F. Schwartzenberg 2L. Domingo, negro servant to Don Manuel, D. N. Robinson...
...Smith compared the quiet home life and calm business career of fifty years ago with the conventional customs and frenzied haste of today. Fortunate is the man who was brought up in his youth by a wise mother and father of the old type--parents whose sole aim was to educate their children in the ways of simplicity and true happiness. Today the seemingly successful man is so engrossed in his own interest that many external affairs which contain the real pleasures of life are excluded. He has no time for vacation, for the joys of home life...