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Besides the articles already mentioned, there are reviews of two current plays, "Abraham Lincoln," and "What the Public Wants," (one wonders why "The Passion Flower" was omitted), and two poems, not especially notable...
Miss Nance O'Nell, star of the "Passion Flower," now playing at the Plymouth Theatre, has been invited to a dinner in her honor by the Harvard Dramatic Club. The dinner will be on Sunday, March 6, at the Union at 7 o'clock, and besides members of the Dramatic Club it is hoped that Professor George P. Baker '87, head of English 47, and Mrs. Baker, and Mr. and Mrs. Underhill will attend. Mr. Underhill is the translator of the "Passion Flower," from the Spanish by Benavente, and other foreign plays...
...made in woodcutting when the designs of great artists were cut on the block by woodcutters who had gained skill by years of experience, is shown in examples from the work of Durer and Holbein. There are prints from the great series of woodcuts designed by Durer,--the Apocalypse, Passion, Small Passion, and Life of the Virgin,--and from Holbein's Dance of Death and Old Testament...
...playwright who attempts to infuse into his drama the age-old themes of passion and superstition must have a consummate skill if he is to avoid common banality or overwrought melodrama; and when, as is with the case with Jacinto Benavente in America, he is almost unknown to his audiences, and must assume the full burden of proff, his task increases tenfold. Yet Benavente is sufficiently a master of his art to have overcome these difficulties and presented a play of unquestionable merit...
...Passion Flower" now at the Plymouth Theatre, is a tale of strange love, jealousy, and "vengeance from the other world". It contains few highly inspired passages, but moves with a steadily-increasing impetus toward the final catastrophe. At times, it is true, the action drags, but there is nevertheless an underlying current of intensity that never fails to hold the attention. That this intensity can be successfully founded on so melodramatic a theme--the theme of a man driven to wicked love and murder by the jealous spirit of his wife's first husband--is due rather to the author...