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...Mackaye calls this new play of his "a comedy of human nature with primitive background," and it is the first of a series of plays by means of which the author intends to continue his efforts to interpret American life in isolated mountain environment. Previously he has written of the native New England mountaineer; now his quest leads him to the Appalachians of Kentucky...
...dialogue is, of course, all mountain dialect, collected by the author at great pains. This dialect is in Mr. Mackaye's words "a noble illiteracy," a language "more flexible than that of the average university graduate," showing "richness of thought and imagination." It is native speech "undiluted by the Ink of the academic or journalistic." Clearly a language meant to be spoken, not printed, and this makes it very difficult for the reader of the printed version to enter into the spirit of either language or play...
...program of the athletic events includes a baseball series, a tennis tournament, and a track meet, in which teams representing the various colleges will compete. For those not caring for organized athletics there will be opportunity for swimming and mountain climbing...
...Moore: the Marion Star, the East Liverpool Tribune, the East Liverpool Review, the Salem News-total circulation 30,906 daily. ¶ The group controlled by John C. Shaffer and his son, Carroll Shaffer: the Chicago Evening Post, the Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star, the Terre Haute Star, the Rocky Mountain News (Denver), the Denver Times-total circulation 248,518 daily; 215,706 Sunday...
Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...