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...late last July, a broad-shouldered little preacher turned to his secretary, exclaimed: "I just remembered. The American Tract Society asked me a year ago to write a treatise. Here the contest closes Sept. I and I haven't written a line!" With that Rev. Dr. Henry Allan Ironside grabbed a handful of pencils, a package of copy paper. On an eastbound train, he had a chapter ready to mail from Canton, Ohio. By the time Evangelist...
...theatre enjoys better-mannered audiences than baseball, prize fighting and grand opera, but there are occasions when, on the stage, a playwright's line overshoots its dramatic mark and hits the audience on the funnybone. At Plumes in the Dust, which presents Actor Henry Hull as Edgar Allan Poe, one of several such shots occurred last week when Poe confessed to Elmira Shelton that he had been drinking, and Elmira, looking with tragic concern at his haggard face, exclaimed: ''Oh, Edgar, will you Take the Pledge...
...Edgar Allan Poe returns as an undergraduate from the University of Virginia where he has been drinking and gambling, not because he enjoyed such sports but because he was sent there without sufficient money and because there were no letters from Elmira. Meanwhile Elmira has married, having received no letters from him, although he wrote to her every day. What happened to the letters is not explained. Poe's foster father, who comports himself like Simon Legree with a Scotch burr, sends him away. He goes to live with Mrs. Clemm and her 13-year-old daughter Virginia, whom...
...story prize rather than a $25 poetry prize. The hostility which his literary criticism met in later years may actually have been due to the philistinism of his times, but in the play it appears mainly due to his idea that the U. S. literary scene consists of Edgar Allan Poe. He invades a party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital of The Raven is interrupted, inevitably, by news of his child wife's death...
DeWindt was introduced by Kendric N. Marshall '21, Secretary of the Union, who in turn was introduced by Gordon B. Allan '38, president of the club...