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Billy Brown loves Margaret, who loves her conception of Dion Anthony, whom she marries. To represent the false Dion, and the false Billy whom Margaret loves after Dion is dead, and the third Billy, who has been amassing wealth during the real Billy's period of despair, the players are provided with masks, which they clap on and whisk off as their personalities exchange ascendancy. Productive of a wide gamut of emotions and effective for about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope...
Some 41 years ago Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically...
...might marry the sewing maid on whose youth he looked with lust. That feckless wench gave him a son, but left him with ruin from her extravagance and his land debauched from overlove, overambition. The farm was sold under his feet. His boy died. But in his hour of despair, his unwanted wife stepped back into his life, as at his need she had stepped out of it. Thus earnestly, persuasively speaks the sister of A. S. M. Hutchinson, of Luke Braddock, man inarticulate and passionate...
Died. Richard Bret Harte, 35, grandson of the famed author, in Paris, by gas, after leaving a letter indicating despair at being worsted in love...
When scowling square-jowled Prussians wreaked their will upon the little red brick towns of Belgium, the iron of despair entered into many a Belgian soul. With victory came a desire for justice, if not for revenge. Now, for many months, a series of court martial proceedings have been going on at Brussels against German officials and men charged with committing "atrocities" during...