Word: mummers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother in this play poisons her daughter who is violently, permanently insane. "I have killed her," she stubbornly cries, although the mummer jury considers the murder kindly and exonerates her of crime. Then she enters a sanatorium to nurse the psychopathic children of other people towards a semblance of sanity...
...limits and taking all of life as its domain. The actor is to become a crusader going into the arena resplendent in the shining armour of his art. He is to fight the great battle with that malignant it otherwise known as human destiny. He is to become a mummer of merely carrying first aid to the wretched and miserable left wounded and bleeding on life's battlefield by the inexorableuess of fate. He is to make kings out of beggars and make a grovelling worm look up at the stars and say proudly: "You are mine...
Chairman Clem Shaver (a fake one) bought a map of the Confederate States "to figure the electoral votes of John W. Davis. . . . But this map doesn't show Kentucky!" cried the mummer...
...guests. The program for the evening is as follows: Now Let Every Tongue, Bach Adoramus Te, Palestrina Morning Hymn. Krug On the Water, Mendelssohn Harvard Glee Club. Melodie, Gluck-Kreisler Berseuse, Faure Minuet, Sulley Violin Solo. In Picardie, Osgood Serenade, Bowdine Bedouin Love Song, Foote Glee Club. The Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol, Arr. Grainger Cherry Ripe, Cyril Scott Fair Maid, Victor Herbert Violin Solo. My Bonnie Lass, Morley Suabian Folk Song, Brahms Give a Rouse, Bantok Glee Club...