Word: lover
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Gore.--1, Good Bye, My Lover. 2, Football Marches. 3, I Don't Want to Get Well...
...many established customs are broken. He whose only exercise used to be chest development at Hemenway will now development at Hemenway will now develop a lame shoulder in the manual of arms. The man who never missed a meal at Mem tests his patience at the Union. A music lover, however, suffers no such change in his program. This evening, he will renew his acquaintance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Dr. Muck. Enjoyment of the fine arts has not been "Hooverized." That much talked of, and mythical, gentleman, the average undergraduate, may satiate himself with music...
...story is of Mildred Gleason, an American girl, whose whole being revolts against the monotony of dreary, uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees...
...denouement comes after a Professor Garrison acts upon his theory that if his wife loves another, he must let her go to this man because her lover is her true husband "in the eyes of thinking people." The number of such thinking people is fortunately small, and by the unromantic and the unmarried Jane Mason, the situation is saved and the doctor's harem returns to its or their husbands...
...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...