Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...successful modern German playwrights. "Zwei Wappen" had a very popular run in Germany, where it was first presented a few years ago, and recently it was played with marked success in New York. The plot turns upon the contrast of two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business man. The former type is cleverly depicted in the character of Freiher von Wettingen, a German nobleman who is stubbornly opposed to his son's attentions to the charming daughter of the latter, a Chicago packer...
...Zwei Wappen" in Jordan Hall, Boston, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a four-act comedy, in which antiquated German aristocracy and progressive American spirit are sharply contrasted. The affections of a young German nobleman for an American girl, who is the daughter of a wealthy, self-made packer, and the opposition of the nobleman's parents to this alliance form the basis of the plot...
...Biggers's play is a comedy, but there is in it more than a little of the poignant, the near-tragic, Marie Gilmore, a leading lady, is in love with Billy Kinsman, the butterfly son of a self-made millionaire who of late has been "doing society" with his pompous wife. It becomes the duty of the actress to show this family their foibles, to tear the masks from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character...
...spite of the fact that the undergraduate scholar of his own accord chooses this career which he knows receives small recognition from his fellows, when he may be quite able to win high distinction in the so-called "outside interests and activities," he is dubbed a narrow-minded, self-seeking "grind," who seeks to take all from and give nothing to his University...
...present Captain Wendell, of whom a speaking likeness may be found on the cover, contributes "Harvard's 1912 Record", the most successful prose in the number. Making no pretensions to style, this brief history of the team is clear, businesslike, and, except for the self-effacement of the great player who wrote it, impartial. The anonymous "Review of the Yale Season" appears to be the carefully consecutive story of a team which the author does not overrate. The fiction, "Formation Z" and "Fussing the Game" presents in new combinations the never-failing elements of gridiron and girl. The short editorial...