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...Beach '13, author of "Let's Get Married," has written "The Clod," a short play laid in the mountain districts of the South at the time of the Rebellion. It tells with grim intensity the story of a woman, entirely calloused and deadened by the monotony of her life, and of her reaction to a wholly probable melodramatic incident that calls upon her for a volitional action to which she is unaccustomed. The struggle between her almost atrophied will and events that demand forceful direction makes an engrossing play of character and action...
When the party drew nearer the lost city, they came into a country which the Indians themselves knew nothing about. This the engineers surveyed very carefully. The city was finally found on the top of a mountain, for the most part burried under a growth of plant life which took months to be cleared away. Professor Bingham called attention to the ingenious way in which the Incas built their houses: entirely of huge blocks of granite, with the aid of no cement, derricks or metal tools. A typical example was a temple erected on a stone which slanted...
...verse Mr. Cumming's "Nocturne" appeals through its intricate pattern and decoration, inducing a mood and sense of beauty, but lacking the truth to emotional experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their...
...Workshop" will present "The Call of the Mountain," a play in four acts by E. C. Ranck, at Agassiz House Theatre, this evening and Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a tragedy of the Kentucky mountains, centering around the attempts of an unscrupulous mountaineer to keep his position as boss of the county. Mr. Ranck is entirely familiar with the life in Kentucky, and his main character, Zeke. Holston, played by S. J. Hume 1G., is not overdrawn with his killings and defiance...
...play was in four acts and was given a most gorgeous Oriental setting. Notably beautiful was the mountain scene in the third act with its atmosphere of eeriness and unreality. The simplest means were employed but the effect was all there. And, by the way, it is very significant that a practical manager like William A: Brady, who produced the play, should use the new settings...