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...swift moving crowds; nor quick young laughter ; Nor of shop-thronged streets; nor the sharp hard clink of money Passing from fist to fist. Rather it is the beauty Of an old, old woman in a black mantilla; Of an old, old woman with unutterable wisdom Behind her wordless reticence; who lights a candle In token of prayer before a faded picture of the Madonna. Or it is humble beauty- A flock of goats tumbling down a slope At twilight; or a silent beauty Of wine-dark shadows shed on purple hills...
...story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds it as a City Hall buzzing with bald-headed efficiency. The author has had difficulty in making this grand idea consort with the flippancy and slangy pathos of his main characters. In spite of some excellent writing and characterization devoted to that end, the emphasis...
...great degree. There are always some men whose busy minds team with so many ideas at once, that expression must halt and waver while the thoughts struggling for expression fight it out among themselves. The "meaningless 'uh'" is of course merely the far-off echo of that wordless mental battle...
...Spelman '13, president of the Dramatic Club, has written the music for a pantomime ballet, entitled "Snowdrop, or the Princess and the Maiden", which will be produced by the Junior League of Brooklyn at the Heights Casino, Brooklyn, N. Y., on Thursday. The piece is a wordless fairy play in four acts. An excellent cast has for some time been rehearsing under the direction of Mr. F. L. Short, for a number of years coach of the Yale Dramatic Club. Scenery and costumes have been especially designed for the production, the latter being by J. G. Hamilton, of New York...