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RAIN?A powerful and well-acted indictment of a rabid missionary in the South Seas. For three acts the audience squirms with delight while Jeanne Eagels discredits " the eleventh commandment": Thou shalt not commit enjoyment...
RAIN?A powerful and well-acted indictment of a rabid missionary in the South Seas. For three acts the audience squirms with delight while Jeanne Eagels discredits " the eleventh commandment": Thou shall not commit enjoyment...
...meanwhile the inhabitants of stageland go their exciting ways, tangling up their affairs most marvelously. They commit their crimes without regard for the law. They do their dying with never a thought of asking if there is a doctor in the house. And you sit by, indelicately observant, with never a qualm of conscience at having stripped them of all reticence, peeped through an imaginary keyhole at their utmost intimacies...
...human beings can be knocked senseless. Crowds pay to see him; the government of 'civilized' New York, most prosperous state in the Union, welcomes him, provides a commision to take care of him and regulate the crowds. And, under government protection, he is permitted to commit assault and battery, knocking a man unconscious while a low-brow crowd howls its delight...
...demonstrated by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 in the last of his lectures on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere" before a crowd which overflowed the seating capacity of Sanders Theatre last night. The basis of his reasoning rested on the conclusion that the hero did not have sufficient opportunity to commit the deed...