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...unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development of the plot, it is distinctly the vehicle...
...plot is simply told. Peter Krum back, poot, who even at the beginning of the play is dangerously near the line which separates the genius from the insane, is not happy with his wife. But Her Philistines grates upon his sensitive soul; yet he is still strongly attracted by her in a physical way. But Dagmar, his wife, has come to the point where she can no longer endure her husband's whims and his scorn for worldly comforts. So she turns to Meyers Sophus, a prosperous, concerted; furniture dealer, and in him finds a welcome contrast to the vagaries...
When Miss Kelley wrote "Beauty--and Mary Blair" she had a good deal more than some people who write novels have--and idea perhaps just a little more unusual than the old triangular plot, although, that is there too and forms a large part of the narrative...
...plot of the book is made up chiefly of the trials and tribulations of a young New York girl who is having a lot of trouble because she is finding out that many of her youthful ideals were founded on nothing--apparently. The method of presentation is very similar to that used by Mrs. Rinehart in her sub-deb stories; the chief difference is that the sub-deb stories were intentionally funny. Told in the first person, the book is not altogether dull, but is full of many incidents that are absurd and often amusing. There seems...
This evening at 8.15 the Pi Eta Society will open the schedule of this year's show, "The Late Mr. Kidd", with "Grads' Night" at the Pi Eta Theatre. The book is by W. B. Leach Jr. '21, who has dug into dusty volumes on Ethnology for his plot and has resurrected the South Sea island of Tambelo for the scene of the third act. The lyrics are by W. A. Duerr ocC., W. H. Cary Jr. ocC., and H. K. Behn '22, while the music, which is the big feature of the show, is by L. A. Harlow...