Word: thunderstorms
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...like the sultry air before a thunderstorm broods over the book- an air of suppressed, excruciated passion. Not passion in the Titivating Stories sense, there is the passion of the human mind for perfection as well-passion for material things. wealth, a house, even Egyptology- and incessantly the passion of human revolt against the material bonds that hold humanity to the clay. The ending is inconclusive, as in most such struggles-the material characters get their material desires-the less commonplace agonists are liberated after a fashion, in odd ways that do not seem to bring them much of what...
...setting in the last act would have been a notable feature in the production if its filmsiness had not destroyed all the illusion And the dawn which Mr. Belasco made creep up imperceptibly, "came up like thunder", if not more so. In contrast with this hasty dawn, the thunderstorm in act two was realistic in its slow approach...
...course we cannot hide our heads in the sand like that and expect to escape the imminent thunderstorm. Things are, unfortunately, happening in the world outside, and before we know it college students may begin to take a most indecorous interest in them--as perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid...
...brings about all manner of changes by preaching the gospel of naturalism and free self-expression. In the second act he brings together two lovers who had been separated by a difference in social rank, and reawakens the idea of love in a converted suffragette by a genuinely Werther - thunderstorm - Klopstock method. Little happens in the third act except the completion of the two incipient romances and the final return of the Faun to the realm of nature...
...play is unusually well mounted--the thunderstorm and the sunrise deserve much credit. Mr. Faversham makes the Faun singularly attractive and entertaining and at the same time sensible and convincing. A less capable actor would make his speeches on free self-expression and unsatisfied affection seem anarchistic or worse. But Mr. Faversham's Faun is sane even while he is radical. Altogether the play is a delight to those who have a thinking interest in the theatre, and a credit to Mr. Faversham, Mr. Knoblauch and what has been called the "school of Harvard dramatists...