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...trait for which Americans are wellknown is the rapidity with which they forget--even things which once stirred their emotions to the highest pitch. This trait is being exhibited today in a tragic way, by the people as a whole and by Congress in particular. Thousands of soldiers now lying in hospitals or waiting for training in the officers of the Vocational Board are being neglected while bills that aim to provide for their welfare gather dust in Congressional Committee Cubby-holes. The most recent and important of these is the Rogers Bill which would substitute one Bureau of Veteran...
...Pudding play "Dido and Aeneas," written by Owen Wister '82, Mr. Wendell soon achieved a reputation in amateur theatricals and became a member of the Players Club of New York. His interest in the stage caused him to gather together theatrical literature and pictures, play bills, and autographs of wellknown players. His library and collection are among the most complete in the world...
...production of the Cercle Francais will be given in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this evening at 8 o'clock. The play to be presented is "L'Aventurier," a comedy in four acts by Alfred Capus, which was presented for the first time at Paris in 1910 by Lucien Guitry, the wellknown actor, who took the leading role. Conspicuous among the works of its author whose pen is famous for "Briguol et sa Fille" and other sparkling comedies, "L'Aventurier" is not entirely unknown in this country, having been produced in translation by the Cornell Dramatic Club and other amateur organizations...
...Frank Couteau Brown, editor of the Architectural Review, and a wellknown Boston architect, will deliver a lecture on "Stage Settings and the Modern Stage" under the joint auspices of the Dramatic and the Pen and Brush Clubs in the Large Lecture Room of Robinson Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be extensively illustrated by stereopticon views of the stages and scenery of important theatres in the United States. Among the views will be a number in colors of jules Guerin's scenery for the plays given at the New Theatre in New York: such...
Bishop Perry has written many wellknown books on theology and church history and has also published numerous sermons and Episcopal addresses. He held the degree of S. T. D. from Oxford and Trinity Colleges and of LL. D. from William and Mary and the University of Dublin...