Heroines of the Modern Stage praised for detail and insight
A review admires Forrest Izard's Heroines of the Modern Stage as a vivid portrait of ten leading actresses Sarah Ernhardt Helena Modjeska Ellen Terry Gabrielle Rejane Eleanora Duse Ada Rehan Mary Anderson Mrs Fiske Julia Marlowe Maude Adams with incidental notes on Ethel Barrymore Edyth Wynne Matheson Grace George and others. It highlights thorough research dates and anecdotes while noting the author’s distinctive biographical viewpoint.
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Forrest Izard
Boston
Notale
Izard
Sarah Ernhardt
Helena Modjeska
Ellen Terry
Gabrielle Rejane
Eleanora Duse
Ada Re
Sturgis & Walton Company
New York
Pageant at Boston Opera House Celebrates Yesterday and Today
The Ladies' Catholic Club presented the pageant Yesterday and Today with Cardinal O Connell in attendance. The living tableau The Cross and the Flag followed a sequence tracing history from Adam and Eve to America as a melting pot. A crowd of 3000 rose for the finale as the Star Spangled Banner and a patriotic hymn were sung.
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Cardinal O’connell
Ladies’ Catholic Club
Boston Opera House
Charles VII
Rheims
Columbus
Ferdinand and Isabella
America
St. Joseph’s School
Roxbury
Century February Magazine Shows Classic Illusion of Art
Arthur Spencer Morley lauds the Century Magazine for February praising its balance of fiction history travel and humor. He notes superior illustrations by Abbey Parsons Reinhart Remington Vedder and Pyle and highlights Orville Peets Senlis views and Sedgwick’s Staking a Larkspur with comparisons to Henry James.
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Century
Abbey
Alfred Parsons
Reinhart
Remington
Elihu Vedder
Howard Pyle
Orville Peets
Senlis
Senlis Cathedral
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Henry James
Bangs Publishes Travel Humor in From Pillar to Post
John Kendrick Bangs, famed American humorist, tours the country for a decade and crafts From Pillar to Post for Century Company. The volume gathers entertaining articles about U S cities, written in Bangs' renowned witty style. Eric Fisher Wood, author of The Notebook of an Attache, advances as secretary to the National Security League with a book on preparedness The Writing on the Wall.
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Harper’s
Harper
Edward Hungerford
Lake Michigan
Britannia
Germania
Ocean
John Kendrick Bangs
America
Century Company
Eric Fisher Wood
National Security League
Garrison Resignation Sparks Debate on True National Defence
Frederick Ayer Jr argues that Secretary of War Garrison acted rightly in resigning to avoid a sham defence. He contends state militias are unreliable for national needs and urges robust army and navy reform as the only real safeguard for the nation.
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Harper’s
Literature
E. S. Nadel
London
Lowell
Nadal
Garrison
United States
Frederick Ayer. JR
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