"[...] "East Lynne" was warmly advocated until some one discovered a grandmother who had seen it in her youth. Then: "Ah gee!" remarked the Lady Hyacinths, "we ain't no grave snatchers. We ain't goin' to dig up no dead ones. Say Miss Masters, ain't there no new plays we could give?" Miss Masters referred them to the public library, but not many plays are obtainable in book form, and the next two meetings were devoted to the plays of Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, Vaughan Moody. When Miss Masters descried this literature in the hands ...
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"[...] "East Lynne" was warmly advocated until some one discovered a grandmother who had seen it in her youth. Then: "Ah gee!" remarked the Lady Hyacinths, "we ain't no grave snatchers. We ain't goin' to dig up no dead ones. Say Miss Masters, ain't there no new plays we could give?" Miss Masters referred them to the public library, but not many plays are obtainable in book form, and the next two meetings were devoted to the plays of Ibsen, Bernard Shaw, Vaughan Moody. When Miss Masters descried this literature in the hands of the now openly mutinous Secretary she felt the time had come to interfere with the "self activity" of her charges. She promptly confiscated the second volume of "G.B.S." "For," she explained "we don't want to do anything unpleasant and the[...]."
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Myra Kelley writes from life experiences as an irish immigrant teacher in the jewish ghetto of early 20th century New York. She writes with humor, empathy and experience. Her characters are alive; she was a leading author of the time. All of her books make a fascinating picture of people in a time long past.
