Word: tales
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Children's Players will put on "The Yellow Bird," a tale of Old Salem, by Mrs. Pauline Bradford Mackie, of New York, in the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. The production will be staged under the direction of Sam Hume. C. B. Roepper '10 will direct the orchestra. The following members of the University are in the cast: R. C. Fenn '15, D. L. Kennedy '17, F. D. Manson '18, M. Roth '17, and W. M. Silverman...
...Women's Educational and Industrial Union will present the Children's Players in "The Yellow Bird," a tale of Old Salem, by Mrs. Pauline Bradford Mackie, of New York, next Friday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in the Wilbur Theatre, Boston. Performances will also be given next Saturday and on December 5 at 10.30 o'clock. The production will be staged under the direction of Sam Hume. C. Roepper will direct the orchestra. The following members of the University are in the cast: R. C. Fenn '15, D. L. Kennedy '17, F. D. Manson '18, M. Roth...
...Young men are all thinking of war and of their duty to serve the country. They would be unworthy if the call of the bugle did not stir a longing to be at the front; and when war comes, Harvard will send forth her full tale of men as she has done before. Many of our students are already in the militia, and will march whenever they are ordered. Others will enlist when needed, and as many will go as the country needs. No one who knows our undergraduates will doubt for a moment that they have the stuff that...
...best performance of the evening was that of "The Clod." Here the acting was so good as to make the illusion complete, and one became absorbed wholly in the story. It is a tale of the Civil War, but that threadbare theme appears for once in a new and surprising form. The principal character a woman too dull to apprehend the great meanings of the conflict, too apathetic to be moved by the peril of thirty thousand men, is by an insult which would seem comparatively trivial to others, but which wounds her only pride, suddenly turned into a fury...
...Century"--he calls it the 'majestic' "Century"--points out the futility of trying to arrive at general conclusions about Harvard, unless one knows Harvard life thoroughly. In "The Treasure of Carvaernon" (the name in the story itself is spelled Carvaeron), Mr. Walcott gives us a good old-fashioned "Gothic" tale, with secret door, mysterious staircase, damp, dark passage, etc., etc., even to the coincidence which brings the final disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson's "Point of View" is a short, vivid, and fairly amusing sketch of Western life. "Paraffine Percy...