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...Ninetieth Birthday of Charles William Eliot" is being published today by the University Press. Intended as an enduring record of that memorable occasion, a year ago today, it is as complete as could be possible within the scope of about 300 pages. A record of the complete proceedings of that day, together with every tribute that was printed throughout the world, would form an almost unlimited amount of material, and hence the book has been limited to the recording of only those tributes most intimately connected with the University...
...only feeble glints of starlight. From a Montmartre dive in girlhood to stage triumphs, Actress Aurelie Bourgevin (Miss Keane) runs the gamut of 100 emotions, 60 years, 14 costumes, several husbands. Harking back to Romance, she is allowed rapid shifts in mood and attire. Her laryngeal versatility is given scope by screaming in childbirth, yearning in bed and scrubbing her child in its bath tub. Her makeup, modeled after the Divine Sarah's, seems authentic. Sartorially it is striking, but dramatically its fine feathers droop...
With the increasing interest, which the world has shown in its work, the scope of the mission has now widened considerably. It now not only attends to the transient fisher population, but also to the natives who are found to be quite intelligent when afforded an opportunity for education. From the one hospital on the ship, the mission has grown to have four hospitals on land, and in addition to this a number of churches, schools, and libraries. It is in order to run these establishments that the mission each year calls for volunteers who pay their own expenses...
...lecture was an attempt, by means of slides, to give Botsonians an idea of the scope and value of the largest theatre collection in the world. He traced the rise of the theatre in England and America from the Elizabethan days of the Garrick down through Edmund Kean and Sir Henry Irving to the twentieth century with Cyril Maude and Julia Marlowe...
...laymen, it is famous among actors, dramatic critics, and historians of the drama. A well known professor at Columbia, in writing a history of the drama, has spent most of his time and found most of his material on the top floor of Widener Library, so great is the scope and rarity of the collection...