Word: peasant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Corps marched gallantly down the street towards Soldiers Field. To anyone watching a thrill of power must have come at this epitomized unison and strength. Two peasant women from some state in Southern Europe stood stolidly looking at the companies go past. They watched dully and stupidly. On the head of each was balanced a huge overtopping bundle which must have rested not lightly on the cushions of their brains. They were of the ruled class of Europe...
...complete cast follows: Pan Maleski, proprietor of an estate in Poland, E. H. Morse '20 Tadeusz Bolski, E. P. Goodnow '20 Sasha Polivanof, a Russian officer, T. M. Hodgens '20 Sebastian, Maleski's servant, J. L. T. Tildsley '19 Bartosz, H. B. Griffiths '18 Yuzef, Yan and Stach, peasant men, D.S.Critz ucC., W. E. Fuller '19 and P. Means '17, respectively. Vanda, daughter of Maleski, Miss Helenka Adamowska Aanna, Vanda's nurse, Miss Dorothy Thorndike Magda Yuzefova, betrothed to Yuzef, Miss Nora Collidge Basia, Yanova, wife of Yan, Miss Molly Hill Manka, betrothed to Stach, Miss Rosanna Fiske Wikta, Miss...
...Jonson, Robert Herrick, and one Giles Hemming plot, preach, and elope, respectively. The idea is well bandled; Mr. Nes is perhaps least fortunate in his dialogue, a strange mixture of modern phrases and what is apparently intended for seventeenth-century English. It may be doubted whether a Devon peasant ever could have said "how him an' me kin write verses an' ring a bell t' any tune." The story is nevertheless entertaining...
These offerings are very various. Mr. Lamont's, as usual, is vivid, but not as oderiferous and actual as some of his earlier Oriental sketches. Mr. Amory's contribution is brief: he splits an infinitive, kills a peasant, and speeds on, leaving little definite impression behind him. Mr. Boydon's effort, also, is too brief to afford much room for criticism...
...program as arranged as follows: Overture: "Poet and Peasant" Suppe Serenade: "Les Millions d'Arlequin" Drigo Valse Triste Sibelins Selections, "The Bohemian Girl" Balfe...