Word: sons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Boston Opera House Monday evening at 8.30 o'clock. William Cameron Forbes '92, former governor-general of the Philippines, will preside and the following will speak; Governor McCall, Major-General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, George Wharton Pepper, and Lieutenant-Commander R. D. Evans. The latter is a son of "Fighting Bob" Evans and is in command of the entire naval cruise. No charge will be made for admission. Members of the University are cordially invited...
...modern French actors, M. Gintry, in the chief role, was highly successful. It was written while the trouble between France and Morocco was still going on, and, very appropriately to the talk of today, it shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was composed before the outbreak of the present European war, the play ends with the declaration of war between France and Germany...
That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
...Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Guitry, in the chief role, scored a great success. It was written during the trouble between France and Morocco, and shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was written a full year before the outbreak of the present European war, the author foresaw the trend of events, and the play ends with the declaration of war between France and Germany. It will be followed by a short one-act play of a less serious...
...others, in fact, suggest something of the evils which will result when individuality is no more. There are three book reviews, conventionally sane and sound, except that a good many readers will question whether "Mr. Galsworthy's Justice' as a whole falls below the dramatic level of the 'Eldest Son.'" There is a conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount...