Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum. The exhibition consists of letters and manuscripts by Goethe, photographs of stage settings of "Faust," and illustrated editions of his works. Among the latter are those by Eugene Delacroix, founder and leader of the romantic movement in French painting, and by Ludwig Richter, noted German illustrator of the nineteenth century...
These two great figures owe a certain small part of their fame to two great artists and in turn these two great artists find a small share of their immortality in two great actors. Sir Henry Irving in the last years of the nineteenth ventury played Becket before the gaping mouths of many Londoners in such a fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden...
...March 10 and 11 the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will present its annual play, in the theatre at the Club House. The play is a burlesque nineteenth century melodrama called "Gold in the Hills or the Dead Sister's Secret," and was written by J. F. Davis. There will probably be some other performance of this play in the next week if the demand for tickets is sufficient, but the performance at Wellesley, where one show is usually given, will not be staged this year...
...volume entitled "Eminent Victorians" swept over England. Theretofore the Victorian age had been a sad business full of inhibitions and morality, the study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than...
RUSSIAN Literature, like that of America began to free itself from western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century. Pushkin, Tolstoi, and Dostoevsky all wrote with a nationalistic outlook. As a leading Slavophil, Dostoevsky wished that Russia, with its great spiritual resources, should inspire and redeem the decaying civilization of Europe...