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...successful. They are all of a serious nature and give excellent opportunities for careful delineation of character by the actors. Following are the casts of the four plays: "THE HARBOR OF LOST SHIPS." Billy Gosse, Dorothy Mason 1920 Moira Gosse, Elizabeth Schribner Allen 1917 Isaac, W. W. Lloyd uC Parson Tobin, F. C. Packard '20 "THE REUNION." Mrs. Sparhawk, Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, Radcliffe Sp. The Bum, R. T. Bushnell '19 The Ticket Agent, J. Horblit uC "A TRANSFER OF PROPERTY." Old Hodson, M. E. Curti '20 Mrs. Hodson, Edith, Isabelle Coombs 1917 Chapin, E. Scott '20 Doctor Berry...
...Radcliffe graduate. The scene is laid in Labrador or Green Bay or some correspondingly Arctic atmosphere where the inhabitants, doubtless by reason of the frigidity of the environment, believe in hell with a peculiar ferocity. A boy is about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment to say that the boy is certain to go to hell if he does not repent immediately. As there is nothing in particular to repent of, the boy is considerably upset and distressed, until his sister turns out the parson and assures...
...Harbor of Lost Ships," the fourth play, written by Louise Whitefield Bray, also a special student at Radcliffe, is adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling. It concerns the dogmatic and terrible religious teachings of a narrow-minded parson on an island off the coast of Labrador. The "Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the doctrines of the minister...
...verse, which has mostly emancipated itself from being libre, the authors are Messrs. S. F. Damon, J. R. Parson, M. Cowley, W. A. Norris, L. K. Garrison, R. H. Snow, A. Putnam, P. R. Doolin, R. S. Hillyer, and W. Willcox, Jr. None of it is bad and some of it is good. With two or three exceptions, it is all facilely academic...
Among the more striking pieces, Mr. Parson's "Let Us Make the Night Light With Drinking" is reminiscent of "We Meet 'Neath the Sounding Rafters." but except for a weak line or two--like "We are sad, I suppose, or should be"--not unsuccessfully reminiscent. Mr. Damous "Beauty" is one of the few contributions to this Advocate which are more than merely creditably academic. It is spontaneously poetic in both thought and expression, notably above the average of verse in college publications, which is more than can be said of his "Passion." This too is charming in expression...