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...what the playwright imagines to be Elizabethan speech. The play can have little suspense, for bright theatregoers are aware of the facts in the story, and few startling liberties are taken with the traditional plot to add spectator-interest. The background is supplied by the stuffed figures of Raleigh, Cecil, Bacon. Although the season's first appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done by high school dramatic clubs, best done by the Guild. The Vanderbilt Revue. There are comparatively...
...Raleigh and the Voyagers," Professor Matthiessen, Sever...
...Raleigh and the Voyagers," Professor Matthiessen, Sever...
...other to Manteo, friendly Indian. Miss Mabel Evans accepted the gateway from the U. S. in behalf of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association. Archibald Henderson, head of the University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the English colonization movement." On May 8, 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched from England in three vessels 150 colonists, including 25 women and children, under the command of Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land...
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