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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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d, a very weak combinationof milk and water to the actor who has onceseriously begun the study of the Ibsen drama. The address was worthy of our most finishedand in many respects greatest actress—awoman whose serious, earnest and faithfulwork is doing much to redeem the stage frombecoming little better than a Punch and Judyshow in so far as stimulating fine, true or se-rious thought is concerned; for since the the-atrical trust was formed the degradation ofthe stage has been more and more glaringlyapparent. Men who are practically the mas-ters of the dramatic field have placed the box-office above all other considerations. There-fore the high concern for art, education andmoral upliftment has had little or no influenceon their sordid natures, and the result is pain-fully in evidence on every hand. Against thisdegradation of the stage no one in the NewWorld has fought so bravely, fearlessly andpersistently as Mrs. Fiske, and for this braveaction no less than for her own fine work she
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Photo, by Barnett, London, England. MI8S EMILY H0BH0U8E. deserves the high place she holds in the regardof discriminating friends of true dramatic art. Miss Emily Hobhouse: Heroine of Peaceand Humanity. In the January Arena we published anextended notice of the important humanita-rian work inaugurated and being carried for-ward by the English heroine, Miss Emily Hob-house. Through the kindness of CountessEvelyn Asivelli, of No. 8 Grand Pre, Geneva,Switzerland, we are enabled this month togive our readers a picture made from thelatest photograph of this true exponent of theGolden Rule and leader of the civilization thatcivilizes. In a personal letter accompanyingthe photograph, Countess Asivelli, in speak-ing of Miss Hobhouse, says: When looking at her peaceful, determined,beautiful face, often have I thought of Byronswords: Around her shoneThe light of love, the purity of grace;The mind, the music breathing from her face;The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,And oh! that eye w

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