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...world how to paint in oils, Margaretha, their sister, worked as their equal. Even in 17th Century France, age of the precieuse in living and painting, there were a number of women adept in the academic art of the period. A few years ago, Rosa Bonheur painted some oxen, a bull, some horses; Mary Young Hunter brought to life dreaming children and proud old ladies...
...Massey, '15, the director, and the actors and technical staff have done their work well. Miss Frances Hyde, in the very difficult part of the heroine, who lives for centuries, beside whom the 60 year old Countess of our own best-seller, "Black Oxen", is a mere babbling infant, brings to the role the voice and the intelligence that it demands. D. D. Driscoll, '26, as Dr. Kolonaty, and Edwards Sanchez, '26, as Baron Pruss, give really delightful characterizations. Both have the rare quality of distinction. Mr. Driscoll possesses the vitality and driving power which is always thrice welcome...
...Black Oxen...
...alleged phenomenon of rejuvenation of women is associating itself in the popular mind with Black Oxen which was the title given to her recent novel by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton. In it she tells of Countess Zattiany who, at 57, recovers the power to live the life of youth...
...thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American literary tradition. Her sense of plot is extraordinary. This journalistic ability is especially evident in Black Oxen, although I'm not sure that I consider that indubitably readable book exactly in Ben Franklin's line...