Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case they need some at an inconvenient time, from the little boy with best wishes. I will gladly send more if wanted, or some cents as referred to on the placard. I know of one shortage of note-paper I don't wish for again. A SOLDIER'S MOTHER...
...cheap loyalty in cheering her on to victory in athletic contests. Yet, if they were asked by a disinterested person why they came here rather than to Colby, or Dartmouth, or New Hampshire State, they would not know. A man, or a boy or twenty cannot answer that mother liked the Crimson color, or father thought it was near home, or sister Susle wanted to see all the big games. Nevertheless, how many times does the presence of a man here hinge on reasons not one whit more sound...
...fresher is the material around which Mr. Henderson writes his "Unseen Genius." The village half-wit who reads voraciously, with his doting mother and the stupid, brutal father, on whom he finally bends the horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...
...unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical Broadway monologist...
...persons of Reinhartz, Pa., of the coming of the superficially absurd, yet clear seeing, deep feeling Susan. She marries Dreary, the swinish skinflint, to help the much-set-upon daughter, Barnabetta. Dreary kindly dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...