Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...World Too Small for Three," a tragic sketch by Hermann Hagedorn '07, will be presented for the first time at the Bijon Dream Theatre on Washington street, Boston, today. The production will continue for a week. There will be four performances daily, at 11.30, 2, 4.30, and 9.30 o'clock...
...scene of the sketch, which is in one act, is laid on a barren island in the South Atlantic. Robert Chilton, a rich stock broker, has been wrecked on its reefs while cruising in his yacht, the "Rover"; from all the ship's company, the only survivors were Barbara, Chilton's wife, whose father is a Gloucester fisherman, and Jabez, the boatswain. The action of the play is furnished by the struggle between the men for the possession of Barbara...
...facts make this inevitable; but one cannot help regretting that the Harvard of the winter terms comes so near incurring the charge of being something less than gentlemanly in its attitude towards its sister of the summer. This unfortunate tone is not altogether lacking in Mr. Moore's sketch, but it is hardly the dominant one. Some sense of pathos, a good deal of humor, and a striking power of seeing in vivid pictures, make this an uncommonly telling piece of writing. Nobody has better expressed the half-lost feeling which the Yard in July gives the "regular" than...