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...Mary. They are in an excellent state or preservation, and are considered to be among the best examples of the period. Arthur Lehman '93, of New York has loaned the remaining two pieces, which date a half century later, but are of a different type, being classical in motif...
...second act was not equal to this beginning, chiefly because it contained most of the musical ventures which were distinctly below par. Miss Sandra Gale's attempt to revive the "Moanin Low" motif was distinctly a failure while the remainder of the singing depended more on the vitality of the singers rather than their vocal abilities. Walter O'Keefe's "When Yuba Plays The Tuba" was the only song that really succeeded...
...Ferdinand was ship's doctor on a Mediterranean liner. He kept himself to him- self, and his assistant's curiosity, already well tickled, was further titillated when he saw Ferdinand one night drop something overboard. What Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid boy, his youth was unhappy, and he would have...
...continue the Gothic motif, printed capitals will be in Priory type. A prologue and epilogue, written in the manner of Chaucer, have been planned by the literary board. Another feature will be a 300-line poem "The Rape of the Mop", by an anonymous contributor of the Class of 1934 which is done in Pope's style. The poem satirizes incidents in the lives of various freshmen this year in a humorous...
...Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill's lawyers easily convinced...