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...piece was generally regarded as audacious but dull; its treatment hardly living up to the provocative possibilities of its background. The play acted much better than it read when published recently in the American Mercury, but it maundered gloomily through scenes wherein a Negro of no great ability married a white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson...
...International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute (TIME, May 5), intense interest has been excited among distinguished visitors to the show by three portraits: Miss Margaret Kahri? by Ignacio Zuloaga depicts the American girl in a Spanish costume and shawl against one of those haunting landscapes used as backgrounds by this artist. Portrait of My Mother by Malcolm Purcell shows a filial tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Richard F. Knoedler is the most...
...shaking his finger in my direction:"You can't very well use that one in print, Mr. Farrar!" There seems little reason, however, why I cannot use his pronouncement concerning the Drama of the present?a pronouncement which will have more value to you, if you have Professor Matthews' background before...
...years Harvard has been forced into the background at the Philadelphia track classic by its more powerful college rivals. But on Saturday the squad from Cambridge succeeded in putting Harvard back into the front rank among contenders for college track honors...
...style, we may be doing Mr. Sabatini a horrible injustice. "He may have intended "Mistress Wilding" to sound slightly unfinished, to correspond to the manners of the time and place of which he wrote. He has unquestionably succeeded in creating another rousing, entertaining story, with enough local color and background to make a very definitely agreeable impression...