Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Almeh" by J. R. Dos Passos is a sketch set in Cairo. It seems oddly old-fashioned, like some story written in the sixties or seventies, for it is overloaded with unnecessary details and the dialogue is bookish. The start is slow; the emotions of Mansford are not so treated as to rouse the eager sympathy which will give the surprise at the end its full value. Such a sketch falls if it is ungenuinely dramatic and this...
These two stimulating essays are followed by several articles of which the most interesting are "Jason", an anonymous dramatic monologue, a poem of smooth metrical effect, and much beauty of phrase, and a narrative sketch "At the Third Table," by W. F. Merrill. This narrative has far too little action. It attracts one, however, by its quiet realism. The author has a sense of the values of character in a group of people at a common-place because he has observed them so shrewdly...
...Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, Sp., Radcliffe; "The Good News" by J. F. Ballard uC.; and "Ygraine of the Hill-folf" by R. E. Rogers '09. Prof. G. P. Baker in whose course all of the plays were written, believes that they will be of unusual interest. Mr. Ballard's sketch, in contrast with his other work, is in a serious vein, and "Ygraine of the Hill-folk" is the second drama in verse which the club has ever produced...
Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...
...found necessary to substitute new playlets for two of the four already announced for performance by the Harvard Dramatic Club in the week of May 5. The pantomime, "The Romance of the Rose," by J. S. Hugh '13 and W. F. Merrill '13, and Percy MacKaye's New England sketch "Chuck" will be dropped. In their places will be acted "The Three Strangers," an adaptation by Leonard Hatch '05, of Thomas Hardy's like-named story of Wessex, and "Ygraine of the Hillfolk," a poetic drama by R. E. Rogers '09. The first tells in humorous, racy and exciting fashion...