Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mystery Square. The original idea was to dramatize Robert Louis Stevenson's eerie tale, The Suicide Club. But the authors evidently were not content to use the device of building crescendo by the steady growth of suspense, so they introduced shrieks, hysterics, faints, shots in the dark. The result is a conventional thriller which Stevenson, were he in the habit of haunting Broadway, would never recognize. The cast is competent enough, especially Gavin Muir, Hubert Druce and Marie Adels, but the general result is more mysterious than was intended...
...that finest of mystery plays Milne's "The Perfect Alibi". Hoboken offers two revived melodramas, quite the fashionable thing to attend, and there is another resurrected thriller down on the Bowery. Just arrived in town are Drinkwater's latest play. "Bird in Hand", "Mystery Square", a dramatization of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" and a farce, "He Walked in Her Sleep...
...Stevenson", Dr. Maynadier, Sever...
...Sabin, board chairman of Guaranty, becomes vice-chairman of the board in the new organization. He will also be full board chairman of Guaranty Co. (the investment subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Co.) which will function for the combined institutions. The merger appears to have swallowed up 49-year-old Stevenson Ward, Commerce president, who figures in the merged bank only as one of a long list of directors. Morgan influence in Guaranty-Commerce is emphasized by the appointment of Thomas William Lament as chairman of the Executive Committee. In some quarters Mr. Lament (whose Morgan label alone prevents him from...
Professor Hersey will give an illustrated lecture on "Stevenson and the Highlands" at 2 o'clock in Emerson J which should be well attended by those who have heard his previous talks on various authors and any other admirers of Stevenson besides. The musically inclined will find interest in a rendition of some of the works of Ravel which will be given by a String Quartet at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...