Word: comptons
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...seem to enjoy fully as much as the audience. Jessamine Newcombe's admirers came in large numbers to applaud her return to the company in the role of Mrs. Pampinelli. As Mrs. Ritter, the "born actress", May Ediss developed a laugh that was the leaven of the show. Francis Compton was her hyper-critical husband. Elspeth Dudgeon, as Nelly Fell, Philip Tonge, as Mr. Spindler, and Allen Mowbray, Katherine Standing. Victor Tandy, and Richard Whorf divide the honors in the amateur performance...
...British Army tendencies. John Thorn, the strong man convert who finds it necessary to hit his adversaries's cheeks so that they may have the opportunity of testing their faith, was a very necessary and worthy addition to the company. His interpretation was equalled but not surpassed by Mr. Compton, as Caesar...
...Hulse makes the old inventor, the only stage inventor in our memory who doesn't succeed in inventing anything, a pathetic figure. Mr. Compton, as a henpecked husband, Mr. Mowbray, as a Cockney toymaker, and Miss Currier, as a slovenly housemaid, all offer distinctive bits. Miss Standing is an able foil for Mr. Clive. Miss Ediss is several shades too cheerful to be real in face of adverse circumstances. Mr. Tonge as the prospective young bridegroom seems scarcely worth fighting...
...HEAVENLY LADDER - Compton Mackenzie-Doran ($2.50). Mr. Mackenzie has been for some time occupied with the spiritual salvation of Mark Lidderdale. The Altar Stops and The Parson's Progress have already brought him into the Anglican ministry. In The Heavenly Ladder, he has taken a living in Nancepan, minute fishing and farming parish. He sets to work to startle the population into salvation, introducing the most advanced rituals of Church of England Catholicism. The horrified villagers retaliate by savagely underhanded attacks on the man who, to their minds, is guilty of extremest blasphemy. Finally, he finds peace...
...Mathematical Society, which aims to make the United States as eminent in mathematics as it is in astronomy, has had, among whom are Professor George D. Birkhoff '05. Chief editor of the society's publication. "The Transactions", and Professor J.L. Cooliders chairman of the council. They society's endowment Compton hopes to raise $100,00 to dietary expenses of publishing "The Transactions...