Word: lover
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Half an Hour" drives home a bitter little morsel of truth on the end of a sharp knife in three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets...
...CRIMON has given us to believe that it possesses a mind of its own, inquiring and open, deliberative, not easily to be shaken. But not so in these when the world is drunk with state-sickness and when to be a liberal and an intellectual, a moderate and a lover of mankind is to be damned as unpatriotic...
...dies between the acts--having become an insurmountable obstacle in the pursuit of happiness--the step-mother reforms her eccentricities, the daughter casts aside her drudge's guise and blossoms as an Emerson-reading flower of Boston schooling, and in the thrill of the Governor's presence and a lover's kiss the play ends...
...concluding, suffice it to say that in Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious, Annabelle," as presented with the fortunate combination of naive Miss Fisher, artististic Mr. Nicander, and droll Miss Vokes ably assisted by the other members of the cast, is a comedy which should satisfy the most critical lover of harmless quips, odd predicaments and finished characterizations...
...questions concerning the football situation these days relates to Harvard. Will the Crimson have a strong team? The loss of star players, the delay of Haughton in appearing at the Stadium--these among other considerations are influences which bring speculation of the sort uppermost in the mind of the lover of the autumn game. There is but one answer: of course Harvard will have a strong eleven. It's a moral certainty. And the reason may be given in two words, "fundamental football." No team well versed in the rudiments of play can fail to be a formidable outfit...