Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main difficulty with dramatizing a popular novel of the type of "The Masquerader" is that your audience knows your secret before the curtain rises. Moreover, in the case of "The Masquerader" it is scarcely necessary to have read the book to know how the play will end. So if you are a young playwright like Mr. John Hunter Booth, the only thing that will save so innocent and helpless an offspring is dialogue, atmosphere, distinction, what you will. Mr. Booth's solution is evidently anticlimax. There is one end at the end of Act 2; another at the beginning...
This is the more surprising in Mr. Booth, since he had the advantage, at outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth...
...Literature, will be given by Professor Greenough, and will be open to undergraduates; German 25 hf., History of German Literature in Outline, will be given by Professor Francke; German 28, Goethe's Italianische Reise, will be open to undergraduates; French 11 hf., the History of the Tale and the Novel in France from the 15th to the 19th Century, will be a new course; French 15 hf., Pascal and Port Royal, will be a new course; French 17, Literary Criticism in France, will be made a full course and closed to undergraduates; Comparative Literature 1, European Literature, formerly given...
...Living Room of the Union tonight at 8.30 o'clock, instead of at 8, as was previously announced. R. Harte '17, First Marshal of the class, will speak, and S. P. Sears '17, composer of the music for "Barnum Was Right," the Hasty Pudding play, will entertain with some novel stunts at the piano. For the movies of the evening two dramas, a six-reel Charlie Chaplin comedy and an animated "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon by Bud Fisher have been secured. The special attraction will be Vivian Rich in "Enchantment," with an all-star company. In addition, Louise Lovely will...
...long pilgrimage which the class of 1918 is about to complete from the commodius palaces on the Charles to the historic piles of the Yard is an appropriate symbol of the progress of the class itself through College. Three years ago the Freshman dormitories were a novel experiment, as new and untried as the men who then occupied them for the first time. These dignified and seasoned Juniors, already pressing close on the heels of the retiring class of 1917, are now about to follow the well-established precedent of choosing homes for themselves in the Yard. Housed beneath...