Word: woman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...
Miss Pauline French does a statuesque part adequately. Her appeal is more to the middle-aged patrons. It is easy to imagine them saying, "Superb woman" when she enters from the wings...
...serious in subject and mode of treatment. "Transfer of Property" deals with Christian Science and New England life in general. The second of the three plays, "The Little Cards," concerns the life of an immigrant on Ellis Island. Its plot reveals the famous Black Hand Society. An old woman of 80 and a man of 62 years are the chief characters in Miss Hinkley's "The Reunion." It is a play dealing with age and sentiment...
...Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress is the eternal Woman, the eternal Eve, pleading for her misunderstood sex, or rather analyzing it with prenatural cleverness and a certain poetry, for the benefit of her male hearers...
...December 9, 1913, both in Emerson D); World League to Secure Peace (Hamilton Holt, April 7, 1914, in Emerson D); pacifism (Norman Angell, February 14, 1914, in Emerson D, and April 16, 1914, in the New Lecture Hall); Christian Science (Virgil O. Strickler, March 13, 1914, in Emerson D); Woman Suffrage (Helen Todd, November 8, 1913, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, April 2, 1914, and Norman Hapgood, March 20, 1914, all in Emerson D); Scientific Management (F. W. Taylor, three lectures in 1913, in a College room). In all these cases, in accordance with the very proper College rule, the meetings were...