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...stage management is handling a big scenic project with good results. The scene of the prologue is laid on Mt. Olympus, that of the first act in a movie studio, and the second act in a San Francisco cabaret. The cast for the play is as follows: Ganymede, a slave to Jupiter, H. Wentworth '17 Jupiter, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Abel Kidder, F. B. Dean '17 Harold, A. Putnam '18 Mary, B. Norman '18 Vera, F. H. Cabot '17 Desmond, W. H. Meeker '17 Spirit of the Movies, M. A. Hawkins '18 A slave, W. H. Wheeler...
...cast follows: Ganymede, slave to Jupiter, H. Wentworth '17 Jupiter, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Abel Kidder F. B. Dean '17 Harold, A. Putnam '18 Mary, B. Norman '18 Spirit of the Movies, C. A. Coolidge, Jr., '17. Vera, F. H. Cabot '17 A slave, A. W. Clark '18 Lasky, W. Rand '17 Oscar, maitre d'hotel, F. L. Stagg '17 Hammond Egg, G. B. Blaine '17 Heaver Brick, M. A. Hawkins '18 Swing Lo. J. Melcher...
...prose, Mr. Longyear's "'Goose' Brodie" is a notably successful attempt to carry us back to the days of the African slave trade, with the difficult vehicle of Scotch dialect. The movement of the story is uninterrupted, the episodes clearly drawn, and the dialect at once consistent and unobtrusive. The tale is better than Mr. Plummer's sketch of a cat which became ship's mascot. This unpromising subject is, however, handled in a manner which, if a trifle juvenile, is far from puerile. The way in which cross-eyed Mike "stared in royal disdain, his left eye terrifying...
...Meetings at the Tremont Temple. He declared: 'I am a Free Soiler because I am (who should not say so) of the stock of the old northern gentry, and have a particular dislike to any subserviency, or even appearance of subserviency, on the part of our people to the slave-holding oligarchy.' After the close of the war Mr. Dana resigned his office of United States District Attorney, and was not engaged in any more serious forensic conflicts, but he devoted two continuous years to his edition of Wheaton's 'Elements of International...
...member of one of the oldest Cambridge families. He was born in Cambridge, August 1, 1815, and received the degree of A.B. from Harvard College in 1837. In 1840 he completed his book "Two Years Before the Mast," and in 1854 he defended Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave. Dana was United States District Attorney from 1861 to 1866 and was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1865 to 1876. From 1871 to 1876 he was president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the last 35 years of his life he devoted his time...