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...South American novel which won the Buenos Aires Prize for Letters in 1920 is not for light entertainment or easy reading. It is a thoughtful and sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign for the salvation of all such characters. The pleading...
Feng: A cable from Peking reports the conversion to Christianity of the last 4,000 in the division of the Chinese army commanded by General Feng, the " Cromwell of China." His men wear armbands containing the stern military ideals of their Methodist leader and go into battle singing hymns...
...with the news that the Piutes had surrounded the town of Blanding. All communication with the outside world had been cut off, so this man had volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment...
...Catskill Dutch" was produced originally as one of the regular Workshop plays on December 7 and 8, and with some changes in the text was presented before a large audience at Middlebury College on February 9. The revised form will be used tonight. The play deals with the stern life of the Dutch people living about 1870 in an isolated village in the Catskills of New York...
...entire atmosphere of the set", she concluded, "Is intended to suggest the hard, stern life of the Catskill Dutch, and their isolation from the rest of the world. In its hardship their life resembled that of the Pilgrims, but continued over a much longer period of time. The costumes which were designed by Miss Pauline Hatfield, also reflect this isolation. The women continue to wear as gala dress the clothes which were in style at their marriages, and it has been said that an acute observer can in this way estimate the date of marriage of each...