Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morals, as such cannot be taught. Once a theme for educational discussion, now generally acknowledged and specifically taught in at least one course of Harvard College, this idea is attacked by Dean R.A. Kent of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University, in an article in the current Educational Review...
...Williams, Minneapolis newspaperman, heard the story, mulled over it, embroidered it and made it into a libretto. More than a dozen years ago, it came to the attention of Composer Alberto Bimboni, who saw the possibilities in an opera with an Indian subject. He took one old Indian theme here, made an aria from it for Winona, took another there and made a chorus for the warriors. So it went, until the whole, bound neatly enough together, was presented in November, 1926, in Portland, Oregon, to the considerable credit of composer and librettist...
SHOULD true love or the sense of duty evoked through compassion and pity determine the all too-important decision in one's life, that of marriage? This is the question upon which the theme of "Conflict" is based, and in it Mrs. Prouty has evolved a psychological problem, the solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
...rather sinister simplicity. There are five players in the cast and of them two are of slight importance. The scene remains unchanged for the three acts, always the same room in the same house in New York. The acting being excellent, the play is thus concentrated upon its central theme with a force that, on the opening night at least, made the audience almost uncomfortable with suspense as the hidden nature of a woman in love, hidden even from herself, develops into an obsession and then becomes a painful hallucination. She ends by suicide...