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Drusilla with a Million is a big baby picture. Drusilla was an elderly female with gray hair and a collector's passion for infants. Her impecunious position as a member of an old ladies' home had hampered her desires these many years. Somebody far away died, and an idle million dollars dropped abruptly into Drusilla's lap. She began to collect babies. An attempt to break the will and prove her incompetent was launched by attorneys of a disinherited son. The plaintive appeal of Mary Carr makes her a good Drusilla; Most of the babies are good...
...Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach's Passion According to St. John. The chorals were excellently sung in a score which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian soprano who has sung...
...Tides of Passion. When a young man is so constructed that women simply cannot resist his "Do you love me?" and when such a youth is a traveling man, there are bound to be complications. This young man, traveling the world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts behind him. Finally, he is washed up on a rocky island and the real struggle begins. One of the two women has a child by him and the other one hasn't. Finally he dies and the women drown their loneliness in mutual lamentations. One of the more unfortunate...
...later years, he worked much in charcoal, in watercolor. His murals have manifested his passion for pure beauty in line, form and color. His industry never dwindled; it remained to the last as great as that of an artist who would never achieve anything. This fact was pungently observed by a woman who came upon Sargent doing a watercolor by a Hampshire wayside, stood, for several minutes, watching him. "Why do people imagine they can paint? There's a man whose hair is turning gray...
...pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...