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...Kentucky Ballads: Six King's Daughters, Brother Green, The Old Maid's Song, The Swapping Song...
...traditions, none is more ancient than the tradition of the dormitory "maid" of all work, popularly, cordially, and euphemistically known as the goodie. On many a student wall the gentle motto, "What is home without a mother?" has been replaced by the yet more unanswerable question, "what is a dorm without a goodie?" There is no reply to the query. A second Anthony might pause in vain...
...pacing up and down before the boudoir door with no companion but a cigarette; he needs no lines at this time, he needs no lines at this time, he thoroughly acts his feelings. Miss Ralph missed a good opportunity to score high with the audience in not keeping her maid humor more subdued. Miss Lucile Watson as Julie and Mr. Harry Lillford as Algernon, the butler, naturally, contributed much to the entertainment...
...fear the "love interests" in the photo-play must be laid to her charge. Everything that was miraculous and lovable in the character of Joan was not enough for Miss Macpherson. Not at all; she is a dramatist. So she has seen fit to force on the Maid of France a love affair with an English soldier. Shakespere, another dramatist, always sensitive to the public taste, took similar liberties with the character of Joan, but Miss Macpherson, being a lady, stopped short of that...
...trial and death are in all belief bad enough without inventing impossibly fiendish detail and a demonaic bishop for villain. Incidentally, the authoress of "Joan the Woman" seemed to have been rather hard put to it to present a good group of Frenchmen as the soldiers of the Maid and an equally good group of Englishmen compelled by cruel History to be her murderers. There seemed to be a vague impression in the audience that the Germans were some how responsible. We should add that the piece is exceptionally well acted, but marred by some excessively feeble, sugary music, which...