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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish play, the Auto de los Reges Magos, is a midtwelfth century Epiphany play, the only extant play of this type from Spain. In the original it is but a fragment. The whole latter half of the play, as the Club is giving it, is a reconstruction based on analogous texts. It is originally in verse, but prose has been resorted to in the translation...
Most suggestive of the comments Miss Hayes so courteously made was her statement concerning the growth of the "type" actor in the theatre. Where once versatility counted for much in the actor's bag of tricks, it now counts for little. Nor did Miss Hayes believe this to be other than good." It gives", she said, "the individual a greater chance to develop his art within very fixed limits. And that, as you know, is after all conducive to the greatest...
...Springfield Student observes in a recent editorial that the "colleges of the country are getting away from the mechanical, statistic-cramining type of debating where the forensic gladiators met and matched weighty booklearned argument on subjects in which they were not in the least interested and have turned to subjects of interest to the undergraduate." As one sample of the kind of question the Student has in mind, the Springfield editor refers to a future debate with Leland Stanford at which the resolution will be "That the world has more to fear than to hope for from Sapience...
...This type of abstract question may, it it true, stimulate individual thinking on the part of debater. It may even hold more interest for an audience than a standarized resolution having to do with a worn-out, concrete subject that has acquired no new aspects. But it will hardly increase the size of the audience. The Student seems to think that the type of question it cites is entirely new, and will revolutionize debating. "Debating promises to have a future," the editorial declares with an optimism which we imagine will be rather speedily disillusioned...
...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...