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Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
...Masefield from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed another Lutheran bonfire...
...music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce in the latter part of the nineteenth century--but these two would appear to have withstood the test of time. Certainly modes and manners have changed since the "Pinafore" craze of the seventies. But sweet little Buttercup remains to charm her auditors, who may have learned to like many new and bizarre entertainments but who still retain a very great love...
...assure Miss Entwistle of a long career and a merry one, with IT safely in her possession. That she has sex appeal, which cries out even above the saccharine mouthings of Tommy, is evident. It is only to be prayed that her advent to Broadway in a nice sweet, sticky little homey comedy won't sentence her to the sugar bowl for life...
...Tommy" is about as sweet, simple and girlish as a graduate of the Skowhegan Female Seminary, and its success in New York seems assured. Before it changes its name again for Broadway consumption, and you lose sight of Peg go and see the reason for the Harvard attendance at the Repertory last year...