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...Park's "Happily Ever After" is a pleasant ramble in the O. Henry vein...

Author: By R. E. Connell ., | Title: English 22 Book Deserves Success | 5/14/1915 | See Source »

...Poppy Song," another poet, R. S. Mitchell, writes in a lighter vein and in pleasing cadence of dreams under the poppies...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: Poetry and Criticism in Monthly | 4/9/1915 | See Source »

...pretty flower girl. "Toy Soldiers" is a "war play" written from a novel viewpoint and portraying the lighter side of the present European crisis in an amusing manner. In con- trast to the comedy of the other two plays "Garafelia's Husband" is in a more serious vein. In a number of strong scenes it pictures the love of a New England wife for her dying husband, a love which remains firm through every crisis and which in the end is rewarded by the recognition in craved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR UNDERGRADUATES TONIGHT | 4/6/1915 | See Source »

Never, Lampy announces, have chances for places on the Board been brighter. A special feature in this year's competition will be a class in drawing for the drawing candidates. Freshmen who write a little or draw a little in a humorous vein are urged by Lampy to enter the competition tonight, as an early start is a great advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Calls Out Reservists | 10/2/1914 | See Source »

...Beach's play, in contrast to his farcical "Let's Get Married" which the club presented in the fall, is written in serious vein. The plot hinges upon the struggle of a woman's "almost atrophied will with events that demand forceful direction." "The Bank Account" is a drama of modern scene depicting the destruction of an office drudge's hopes by his wife's financial mismanagement. "The Fourflushers," the only comedy of the three deals with a domestic situation of humorous complexity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESPIANS ACT FOR STUDENTS | 3/31/1914 | See Source »

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