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...Dunce Boy. There was much anticipatory comment about this latest play by Lula Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce Boy...
...curious and tiresome ramble among the tangled mental paths of idiocy. Such wanderings must be comic or terrible. The Dunce Boy was, unfortunately, both...
...even in this the University is by no means left out. The old team of Montgomery and Ward introduced Harvard back of the musical comedy footlights with a football song travesty followed by others such as the "Boat Race Gallop" and "My Love's a Harvard Boy" by Ethel...
Strange events conspired in sea-sleepy Portsmouth. Eliphalet sent the boy Jervaile to kill Parton in a tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with...
...lofty pedestal of 85 years, I am looking down on you as probably a mere "kid" compared with myself. And I am going to read you a little sermon. Do not let the ever "Forward flowing tide of TIME roll back to any form of archaism such, my dear boy as you were guilty of in styling Governor Ferguson as the Governess of Texas. Please do not do it again...