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...Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
...only things really worth while in the number. The first is, if not profound, at least refreshingly sane and balanced in these days when to be young is necessarily to be decadent--or one would imagine so from recent Monthlies. The second, apart from a shabby and sentimental plot, possesses, in dialogue and description, a sense of actuality of life on the East Side of New York that is almost startling. The writer's methods are not those of contemporary English or American writers. Perhaps they are Russian; or, more likely, as Jewish as Zangwill's. But they are very...
...singing, on the other hand, is not quite up to that of some former years; there are no really excellent voices. This is to be regretted as the music is exceptional. It is admirably orchestrated, and so well fitted to the book that the songs actually further the plot instead of interrupting it. There is a distinctly traceable plot, and the dialogue is not only witty but all means something, and there are one or two real dramatic moments. This show is much less like the Follies and much more like a Fall or a Lenar production than anything...
...Beach's play, in contrast to his farcical "Let's Get Married" which the club presented in the fall, is written in serious vein. The plot hinges upon the struggle of a woman's "almost atrophied will with events that demand forceful direction." "The Bank Account" is a drama of modern scene depicting the destruction of an office drudge's hopes by his wife's financial mismanagement. "The Fourflushers," the only comedy of the three deals with a domestic situation of humorous complexity...
...Legend of Loravia," is a two-act musical comedy written by J. K. Hodges '14, and E. Streeter '14. The plot centers in the mythical land of Loravia, a mountainous principality of Europe, and depicts the struggle for the throne between the twin princes Louis and Ferdinand. The scene of the first act is laid in the Grand Salon of the Pre Catalan restaurant in Paris; and the second act is staged at an inn outside of Rontevest, the capital of Loravia. The features of the play are the lyrics, which are more closely connected with the plot than those...