Word: masefield
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...this his latest play, Masefield again gives us the other side of the Biblical narrative; this time, he tells, movingly and forcefully, the story of Ahab, and Jezebel, and the rebel John as it must really have been. And if "A King's Daughter" lacks, as it seems to me that it does, a little of the power of "Good Friday," it can in all probability be due only to the stronger appeal which that story makes to the Christian emotions. For the account he gives us is convincing; for the moment we forget that her name has come...
...Ferguson by St. John Ervine. Listed among their most notable successes are the following, a list which any financially-minded manager might inspect greedily and which many a layman will recognize with the quickening touch of well remembered evenings: John Ferguson, by St. John Ervine The Faithful, by John Masefield Jane Clegg, by St. John Ervine The Dance of Death, by August...
...Masefield Exhibits Cheap Realism...
...Masefield is often more disagreeable. He is a realist and is temperamental about it. His profanity is revolting and largely because of this I would say he exhibits cheap realism. Shaw in one of his seenes gains all the effect of the use of profacity by merely having the speakers repeat the word "rotten", but Masefield simply swears,--to the extent that one becomes weary...
...Masefield '97 cup for the 100-yard dash was won by R. D. Howard '24, and the L. P. Dodge '08 trophy by Vinton Chapin '23, R. L. Brooks '26 taking second place in both races...