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...that Harvard is supreme; they cultivate a cheap loyalty in cheering her on to victory in athletic contests. Yet, if they were asked by a disinterested person why they came here rather than to Colby, or Dartmouth, or New Hampshire State, they would not know. A man, or a boy or twenty cannot answer that mother liked the Crimson color, or father thought it was near home, or sister Susle wanted to see all the big games. Nevertheless, how many times does the presence of a man here hinge on reasons not one whit more sound...
...will personally direct. The following distinguished artists and theatrical companies have volunteered their services: Mrs. Fiske, Marie Tempest, Sir Herbert Tree, Edith Wynne--Matthison, Lydia Lindgren, Mary Ryan and company in the second act of "The Hour Glass"; Clifton Crawford, Margaret. Romaine and John Charles Thomas, from "Her Soldier Boy" at the Shubert; Ernest Truex, Alice Dovey, Oscar Shaw and Julia Mills, of the "Very Good Eddie" company; the Aborn Opera Company, and acts from Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, B. F. Keith's and the Orpheum Theatres...
...second speaker of the evening was President Lowell. "You who are interested in the Boy Scouts," he said, "have founded the movement on the same theory on which the United States is based, the inherent goodness of human nature. There are many possibilities in every youth which are not always evident except in some natural crisis. No one who has to do with young boys can fail to realize this. The difficulty which one encounters is in trying to bring out these qualities when there is no natural crisis at hand. That is what you are trying...
...loose construction and the stamp of the amateur were the desiderata in light opera, "Her Soldier Boy," now playing at the Shubert Theatre, would take first rank among such productions. Perhaps no play of recent years has so openly defied all dramatic fundamentals, for there is an incoherence which runs through the piece that even a prejudiced audience is not able to overlook. Had the work been done by novices, we might be more charitable in passing judgment, but such veterans as Victor Leon and Rida Johnson Young will certainly not enhance their reputation by such workmanship as this...
...Soldier Boy" is really a series of sentimental pictures of a most unattractive pre-Raphaelite type, joined together by several strokes of the leader of the orchestra's baton; and a few real bits of music. We are so used to recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle...