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...scene of the first act is laid in Villabossia, the capital of Cantalusia, a mythical but by no means ideal kingdom. It is governed by an incapable king under the control of a tyrannous "Boss," Count della Croca; it is patrolled by a corrupt police force, and terrorized by a band of ruthless anarchists. These conspirators, incensed by one of the king's proclamations, decide to put an end to him. The assassin is chosen by lot, and turns out to be Nitro, the leader of the band. Meanwhile Della Croca, while attempting to coerce his daughter, Trivia, into...
...Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love, of family, and of work." He was thus a kind of legislator on the stage. His attacks against the code are well known. The most brilliant follower of Alexander Dumas fils is M. Paul Hervieu...
...imaginative creation and moulds his production in every detail in accordance with it, while the camera worker can only what beauty he may find in nature. There is an element of selection in each case. The painter selects from the landscape only those elements that correspond to his imaginative ideal, while the photographer selects such a view as is in itself best arranged. The one selects all the details at will, the other such parts of nature as are best composed. Thus it is plain that the photographer labors at a great disadvantage because nature never composes as well...
...patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered; he called them to forgive and be more ready to forgive again. In close and terrible temptations it is not victory alone, not the mere overcoming of the powers of sin that he asks, but he holds before them the lofty ideal that beyond and from the victories in life there shall be the new strength, the new power and the new sympathy in which alone "we are more than conquerors through Christ that loved...
Well beloved son of the College, he was in this generation the fulfillment of Harvard's ideal; "and the grief of a whole state is the witness of his success...