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...plot of the play is very simple. John Sayle had fallen in love with Lucy Pryor many years before the overture began, but had foolishly (as he decides in Act III) left her. Sayle becomes Baron Otford and Lucy Pryor Madame Lachesnais. Of course, when the play opens in 1805, the Baron's son finds Madame's daughter living in a romantic street called Pomander Walk, and falls violently in love with her (Act 1). But when Marjolaine's mother hears who the suitor is she says "no daughter of mine" etc., and John Sayle...
...opera has come "direct from its successes in Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg," but evidently most of the plot and most of the good lines were lost...
...little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual slaves enlisted as Union soldiers; as reformer, and as author--essayist, romancer, and poet--Colonel Higginson...
...Broken Mirror," last of a series of stories of Mme. Saumon's pension on Eliot street, is too obvious in plot and only near-English in style. The tone suggested by the first line, "Dulling their background like two pearls in a cabbage patch," is fortunately not maintained throughout. A sketch, Mr. Skinner's Indian tale "The Love of a Friend," is simple and good. Perhaps the Apache saying which heads it--"Any man can slay an enemy, but only an Apache is brave enough to kill a friend"--anticipates too much the conclusion...
...farces, "The State Line" was superior in plot, and "Men Are Mortal" in presentation. The former turns on the legal complications arising at the State line which intersects the country hotel in which the scene is laid. It is a matter of divorce and remarriage, dominated by an elderly and wealthy maiden aunt. In spite of very creditable acting, the fun was not fast and furious enough to be genuinely farcical. It needs "speeding up." "Men Are Mortal" on the other hand, owed its success to the very spirited performance of the company. A college professor, in order to satisfy...