Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tone of the play is light and cheerful but not frivolous. A vivid tense incident in New England life is portrayed in the play third in the judges' estimate, "The Rescue," by Rita C. Smith. It pictures the culminating horrors of a girl who inherited madness from her mother. The play of J. W. D. Seymour '17, "Trespass," is the only one to be offered written by an undergraduate. This play is the thriller of the set. Two coal-miners, imprisoned in a cave-in, find themselves to have been participants in a domestic tragedy. In the gloom...
Thus far, he said, the British fleet has protected America, but righteous citizens should not allow their peace and safety to be defended by a nation fighting for its life. The United States, on the country, should be anxious to help its mother country in its death struggle. France, as well, has aided us; has given us "the splendid light of its civilization. They all look to the United States, as a responsible nation, to do its duty...
Bliss Knapp '01, Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, will lecture on Christian Science in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Christian Science Society. All members of the University are invited...
...House Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Instead of one long play, this year there will be three short pieces, "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," by Brieux; "L'Intruse," by Maeterlinck; and "Les Deux Sourds," by Moinaux. This first is a one-act comedy, treating the problem of a mother-in-law's position in the household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death is very near his daughter who is ill. The last play...
Henry Dornton is an English actor and stage director of many years' experience, coming from an old theatrical family that dates as far back as 1721. His mother was Louisa Robertson, sister of T. H. Robertson, author of the famous "Caste Comedies," sister too of Madge Robertson (Mrs. Kendal). His father was Charles Dornton for many years lessee of the historic Theatre Royal, Birmingham, England...