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Herbert Henry Asquith was 'born in Yorkshire in 1852 of "old Puritan stock." When Herbert was eight, his father died and the family moved to Huddersfield, where it lived with the widow's parents...
From one point of view it is a pity the Puritan parsons who set up the college at New Haven did not foresee that it was destined to have a theatre of its own and a professor of playwriting and play-acting--and imported, at that, from Harvard. Not even "the abominable habit of shaving on the Sabbath" or "the godless levity of kissing one's wife on the Lord's Day" could inspire such racy and colorful English. But in a measure the deficiency is supplied. Racy and colorful English is copiously emitted at Harvard. There is occasion...
...They Left Behind Them is the weird tale of a house haunted by the vengeful God of Jonathan Edwards and his Puritan contemporaries to whom the chiefest of sins is Folly...
...Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...hallowed boards of the Metropolitan Opera Company may soon be graced, or disgraced, by a jazz opera--bizarre monster which could only be conceived in this land of Puritan hymnals and Hottentot orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share...