Word: dead
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Idiot Boy, "Jonathan," who inadvertently slew his pet cricket. The tragedy was due to an indigestion brought on by eating dough. The end is charming: "Jonathan is 'a great hand,' his father tells me, at running a village store. But somehow I wish I could forget the dead and buried look that lurks in Jonathan's eyes." But, oh, the difference...
...disappointment of the play is that its central theme,--the influence of a dead love on a living one,--is obscured again and again by the most obvious kind of an attempt to furnish thrills, and "sustain the interest." There is a bloodcurdling lynching in the first act, the sensationalism of which is in contrast to its trivial significance in the tragedy. It is a symptom of the danger that Mr. Sheldon's peculiar talent carries with...