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...drawing is singularly well adapted in style, we are told, not merely to Lincoln's rugged personality, but to Drinkwater's spare, and yet significant, outline of Lincoln, in his strangely effective drama. The picture is flatly done in black and white against a dull orange background...
...comedy has a real plot, which is unusual in plays of this character, and the semi-historical background adds a touch of reality. There is a strong tendency in modern romantic plays to overdo the sentimental element, but Arthur Richman has overcome this by introducing a spicy antidote of humor at any point where the romantic is a little too saccharine...
...each in their own fields, questionnaires starting with a general statement regarding the particular subject, which is followed by a series of questions aimed to bring out the various views that may be held in regard to the live questions of the day. This is intended to give a background of the people's views in regard to these questions. It is then proposed to make a synopsis of the replies to the questionnaires and to formulate the principles involved for the use of the Committee on Planks and Platforms at the national convention in June...
Robin's life and friends at the University, his familyand their friends at Grote and in London are pictured interestingly vivdly. Robin's relations with his mother, her afair with the gret Kuhlmann, and as a background, the whole fabrie of English social life before the cataclysm of 1914 are charmingly depicted. Even Mr. Benson's rather slip-shop style seems less obtrusive as the author approaches that great crisis when the destinyof nations trembled in the balance...
...ironic amusement, common, I fancy, to nearly everyone in Cambridge. But lately, since the last production by the 47 Workshop in Agassiz Theatre, when the achievements of the company were glitteringly spread out for us with the enervating waste in labor under present conditions hung up as a dingy background, the thought has haunted my footsteps...