Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this grisly theme (fictionized with great power some years ago by Bram Stoker in the vampire novel, Dracula) was presented on the London stage. Count Dracula and his terrible vampire sisters so worked upon the emotions of Britons during the week that an average of two women and three men had hysterics, collapsed or fainted during each performance. Since Dracula promises to be a dramatic hit, the management, shrewd,-installed at the theatre a trained nurse...
...Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet "who saw life steadily and saw it whole...
CHILDREN OF THE MORNING- W. L. George-Putnam ($2). Originally romantic, the Crusoe theme has passed through many literary phases and now emerges as a peg for behaviorist psychology. Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting...
...great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve the aloof, unswerving wickedness of a fiend, is deftly handled with occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally...
...theme of the conference will be "Christian Belief in Action." Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the National Y. M. C. A., will point out to the delegates some of the weaknesses in the present social and industrial order...