“Pleasantly told.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w. |
“While in ‘Captain June’ Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice does not write with quite the same firmness of touch that characterizes the work of the author of ‘Emmy Lou,’ she, like Mrs. Martin, throws her picture upon the screen in clear, sharp light and shadow.”
| + | R. of Rs. 36: 763. D. ’07. 230w. |
Rice, Cale Young. [Night in Avignon] 7–15143. The theme for Mr. Rice’s drama is “a momentary revolt on the part of Petrarch from the apparently unresponsive and remote Monna Laura, and the consequences in which it involves him.” (N. Y. Times.) “The situation is conceived with an admirable intensity, but it is worked with such agitation of mood and manner that it fails to be pleasing or even convincing.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w. |