The Quiet Corner
September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 433 THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor...
...but you will note that the measles have PORTSMOUTH SCHOOL broken out and are seductively tripping down the runway (the straight line) into the audience...
...Irish atmosphere...
...Frankfort and Jacob Streets, New York City "'I think,' said he, absentmindedly sketching profiles with J 434 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 his chalk on the head of the nearest student, `that I am the MOUNT DE SALES ACADEMY At CATONSVILLE, three miles from Baltimore last man to have attended a show-in a manner of speaking, RESIDENT AND DAY PUPILS the greatest show on earth...
...ENDA'S SCHOOL taking up a piece of chalk, proceeded to wield it with dexterity, The Only School of Its Kind in the U. S. outlining a crescent enclosing several specks...
...dromes, 3,000,093 nickelodeons, and 1,0oo penny arcades...
...Angelicus to the library Registered by the University of the State of New York and by the New Jersey State Board of Education...
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...polar bears start living in California...
...F. WULSTAN KNOWLES (Prior) O.S.1., was, for instance, the case of the ushers, who first broke out or Rev...
...Address Secretary...
...MARTHA BAYARD is a contributor of literary criticism to the magazines...
...Herefore'"The old professor moved snappily to the blackboard, and ST...
...The measles go gallivanting from the Headawter, St...
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...Grand Concourse (East 165th Street), Now York City " `Nervous, my boys, is no name for the situation ! One PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS felt as though the theatre were mined with fire-crackers ; and Resident and Da,y Pupils one never knew where next the contagious flame would ignite...
...and shortly ELECTRIC PUSH BUTTON afterward, the theatre, with everyone in it, burned to the EVEN A CHILD CAN OPERATE THEM WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY ground...
...ment and he will love and bring honor to his name and race...
...PORTSMOUTH, R. I. (Eight mile, north of Newport) "'That movement, though, wasn't so bad...
...Healthtined behind the foots...
...hour...
...It was the drama's Courses in Music, Languages and College Preparatory last and most violent stand...
...Head Master) in a rash of costume and make-up to circulate colorfully Portsmouth School-Portsmouth, R. I. through the orchestral arteries in the guise of senoritas, or colleens, or old Elizabethans...
...Peter Pap began it with his: 'Do you believe in This feature of our organization accounts to a large extent for the long list of representative concerns that have fairies?', holding up the action of the drama until the whole continued to send us their printing orders for many years...
...Bachelor degree in arts, sci- direction of the sittees, they continued to strut their all-star ence, and music...
...Six year course...
...the play...
...Intensive courses open to students preparing for the teaching profession...
...But after 1910 or thereabout,' he continued, 'there's a For catalogue, write JOHN X. REGAN, M.A...
...J. HUGH DIMAN...
...INSTITUTE OF HOLY ANGELS, Fort Lee, N. J. HIGH SCHOOL "Cyril B. Egan," announced Dr...
...It was only when some disoriented dramaniac conceived the mad notion of starting the show from a box or For fsrtker iwformatias, apply to orchestra chair, that the contagion began to spread...
...State ROBERT R. HULL is associate editor of Our Sunday Visitor and a contributor of criticism to the general press...
...Which is where an actor belongs- ful country location...
...Cor...
...That's where you found him in 191o.' tion, "fosterage...
...Usher into actor ! What should PRINTING SERVICE be more reasonable than that the playgoer himself should take Our working force is composed of trained men, selected a wear of the sock and a stride in the buskin...
...Thereby all theatrical performances were forbidden, exOpens the end of September cept behind barred or wired stages, whence the actors might JUSTINE WARD METHOD OF TEACHING MUSIC Gregorian Chant, Harmony, Counterpoint, Gregorian not spring out at the audience, and whither the audience might Accompaniment not break in upon the actors...
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...and usually they in England and Fort Augustus in Scotland...
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...coterie, "is a young man of vision...
...Home economics department...
...There was a justice of the peace who sang Sweet Adeline...
...Nothing could melt my strength of character...
...NEW YORK NCITY " `It was directly following that,' concluded Professor Stockyard, as he assumed a louder and more dignified tone for the edification of the dean whom he espied peeking through the transom, `that Congress, acting in the interest of the nerves PIUS X SCHOOL OF LITURGICAL MUSIC COLLEGE OF THE SACRED HEART and general health of the community, passed the Anti-Theatre AUTUMN SESSION law...
...The measles denote the actors...
...Enda's School, North Barnstead, N. H. sick-room...
...Actor into audience...
...Louis University is a new contributor to The Commonweal...
...The professor drew a straight line downward from the Self-help, farming...
...music especially fostered...
...Here is a paper of his Secretarial Department, Elementary School which all of you would-be playwrights and amateur actors Special advantages in Music and Art...
...Modeled after St...
...Spontaneous combustion, the coroner said...
...should not only follow with the closest attention, but would do well to profit by...
...Address: Sound View Ave., Bronx, N. Y. C. VAN \YCK BROOKS, critic and editor, is tie author of The Wine of the Puritans, John Addington Symonds, The Ordeal of Mark Twain...
...device of making the audience work for its money, develop its Catalogs, Magazines, Books, Commercial Printing fullest swing.' "Professor Stockyard stepped away from the board, and BURR PRINTING HOUSE heaved a deep grunt, premonitory of reminiscence...
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...the scene-shifters did a song and dance...
...In the middle of the theatre a trap-door opened, and under the light of a crimson spot, the furnace-hands dramatized themselves with SETON HILL all the gusto of amateurs making capital of their first opporA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN tunity...
...Life was impressionistic, jazzyWrite Directress for Catalogue Affiliated with the Catholic University of America insane, as the program expressed it, `like life itself.' It was...
...poets begin to work in prose ; and the actors step off the stage and into the audience to strut their stuff...
...ARNOLD WHITRIDGE is a writer on French and Italian life...
...Then someone popped out of a top box and sang a song...
...of me, shot up from his seat, and put on a wig...
...The crescent I have drawn is still the stage...
...If the play because of their ability and willingness to make extrrate was to be flung at his head, why shouldn't he take a fling at efforts to satisfy our customers...
...The name of the piece was LifeUnder the supervision of the Sisters of the Visitation a pageant and improvisation of madness...
...There Very Rev...
...But the mummers, in their Each course merits Two College Credits vanity resenting the idea of being exhibited like so many wild For further information address-THE SECRETARY Pius X School of Liturgical Music animals, refused to take advantage of this gracious exception133rd Street and Convent Ave., New York, N. Y. Tel.: Edgecombe 2272 as a result of which we are utterly lacking-or to speak with exactness, happily free of-the drama today!' " -THE LIBRARIAN...
...NEW JERSEY floor...
...Boys admitted to the Elementary Departments I alone, more proof against the torch of Corse Payton than Chartered by the University of the State sf Now Yr1 the North Pole enwrapped in an asbestos shroud, stood cold and firm...
...and then a large section of the audience rushed on deck to stage a mob URSULINE ACADEMY scene, while the original actors played at being audience...
...At length, however, in fear that even asbestos might ELEVATORS reach its melting point, I chose the nearest exit...
...Being excerpts from a lecture delivered by Professor Stockyard, Sandburg College, Ladycliff Academy Chicago, Illinois, January 15, 1955...
...And now,' said the spry old professor, 'really to answer Highland Falls, N. Y. the question : Why isn't the drama...
...These from the stage, the chances were that they would get back to fathers conduct Downside and Ampleforth Schools the stage sometime before the curtain fell...
...theatre yelled 'yes.' But not till some time afterward did the May we eftimots 00 your pratistg...
...Forthwith, the Doctor began to read "Disappearance of the Dramatic Art...
...Wherefore...
...didn't stray out of bounds long enough to spread their exhibiSix Years' Course College Preparatory tionistic itch...
...NN ILFRED MALLON of the faculty of St...
...O. Address Convent Station) actors on it...
...Naturally, the audience judged themselves far better (Also for girls who want to be treated like women) actors than these-and so my family doctor, two rows in back Catholic GREENSBURG, PA...
...So long as the players began English Congregation, Sept...
...Because there are no theatricals...
...In fact, the To be opened by the Benedictine Fathers of the principle of it was first-rate...
...September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 433 THE QUIET CORNER I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.-C...
...A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL LOUIsE TowNSEND NICHOLL contributes prose and poetry to current magazines...
...Gaelic taught...
...The old Gaelic conception of educaif he belongs at all...
...Picture, if you can, a drama that began with the curtain descending on a crowded stage...
...Extensive Campus, field hockey, basket-ball, tennis, etc...
...And then, with increase in confidence, these post-graduate seat-slammers would ever and anon sing out some thumping ditty from the current performance while they went about their appointed tasks...
...change-in everything...
...CLACDE C. WVASHBURN, American author, recently deceased, was the FOR BOYS author of Pages from the Book of Paris, Gerald Northrop, and The Lonely Warrior, Approved by the Regents of New York GRENVILLE VERNON is a contributor of musical and literary criticism to the magazines...
...These blathered about and barnstormed a bit...
...And finally they set up a clamor for speaking-parts...
...A Catholic college for women, registered by the New York State University, and the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Boards of Edu- then bolted to the rear orchestra, where, regardless of the cation...
...Enda's, Dublin "'This measled slice of circle, friend-pupils, represents the Give your boy a chance, educate him in an Irish environstage as it was in its heyday...
...Love of Irish culture, literature, and centre of the crescent, dotting it with specks...
...Each actor-or measle-you will notice, is properly quaran- A College Preparatory Boarding School for boys...
...In 1926, the theatrical Chartered Regents School for Girls directory of the United States listed 15,962 theatres, five hippo- Military Training in Small Boy's Dept...
...nothing could shake my stout determination never to be an actor...
...FREDERICK H. MARTENS is a critic of music, and the author of A Conducted by the Christian Brothers Thousand and One Nights of Opera...
...Today, there is no theatrical directory...
...And so the stage was again revealed with a rash of (P...
...But after it reached the floor, what did it do but drop still further to disappear beneath the College of Saint Elizabeth MORRISTOWN...
...28th, 1926...
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