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...Reverend Henry H. Crane, Minister of the Centre Methodist Church of Malden, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
Married. Miss Rosemary Crane, daughter of Mrs. Frederick Goodrich Crane of Dalton, Mass.; to one John Maurice Hastings of London and Manhattan...
Writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, of this public attitude, Agnes Repplier correlates a surprising unanimity of conceit among Americans. Her authorities range from Dr. Frank Crane who advises Europeans to study American conduct since the war before continuing their wilful ways, to the late Walter Hines Page, who once wrote that he would not give Long Island or Moore County for the whole of Europe. In between, of course, lies the general run of journalistic and political opinion, spoken by editors and Congressmen, whose respective publics relish a savory Americanism...
...give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital a thing as a comet, a mountain or a waterfall. This is the quality that informs all his best work: his bridges poised in tensile grace over tugboats...
...western town in the throes of a revival meeting is the locale of the play. A strapping shouting preacher (Crane Wilbur) is king of this overwrought community for the time. A tired, unhappy woman (Alice Brady) falls in love with him and mistakes her passion for religious ecstasy. As her mind falters under the furious lash of her misinterpreted desire, she kills her stupid husband. Then she goes...