Word: graces
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...cowpuncher, a preacher, a crook, and a wardboss, leaves behind him the roles of these necessary sorts of person, and becomes one Reginald Carter, a wholly unnecessary and thoroughly nice young man. Miss Lucille Adams, as Marcia, fills the part of a slight young creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make-up as the Japanese servant...
...sympathy with his generation, to be let alone. From the undergraduate point of view, to wish deliberately to be a minister is heresy. But this attitude is more habit than anything else, a habit which is hard to overcome. If regarded as something more than a necessary evil, like grace before meals, preaching can be made a great profession...
...inconclusive. His general frame of mind appears to remain constant, but he finds himself defending and rejecting very different things. The great issue may, according to the period, be a primitive taboo, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, the Athanasian creed, the Inquisition, the Geocentric theory, monarchy by the grace of God, witchcraft, slavery, war, capitalism, private property, or noble isolation. All of these tend to appear to the conservative under the aspect of eternity, but all of these things have come, many of them have gone, and the remainder would seem to be subject to undreamed-of modifications...
...There was a slight smell of fresh paint about everything except the performance, which gave promise of a brilliant season. Two of the principal roles were acted by Mr. Clive and Mr. Wingfield, who had done them almost as well before. Miss Willard played Eliza Dolittle with originality and grace. She was not able to make her flower-girl accent sufficiently distinct, except in the first scene, and this was perhaps the only serious flaw in her interpretation. Miss Willard is personally charming and an actress of considerable merit, who plays with feeling as well as cleverness. Mr. Clive...
...concert in Northampton will be given jointly with the Smith College Glee Club, which will be directed by Miss Grace E. Lowe. The performance at Springfield is one of a series of municipal concerts under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association...