St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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Euruta Shakespeare reading: Mr. C. E. W. Griffith, America’s greatest reader of Shakespeare, interpreted four of the Master- pieces of the “Bard of Avon” for the Sisters, pupils and friends of the Academy. MIRIAM. RHODA. It has been said that “without Mr. Griffith’s rendi- tion of the ‘dramas immortal,’ the study of Shakespeare is in- complete.” The students of St Joseph’s say that “through Mr. Griffith’s rendition the study of Shakespeare is made possible.” A critic, in a Los Angeles paper, paid the following tribute to Mr. Griffith’s art “One evening in Rome, many years ago, I saw Salvini in the character of King Lear. I have heard many great actors since, but I have never wanted to hear any of them in King Lear. When I heard that Mr. Griffith would give this selection, I won- dered how a lone man, without scenery or costuming and with a small audience, could ever attempt such a drama. To my surprise and delight, what a beautiful sound the rather unmusical language assumed on his lips, and how quickly he changed his personages, and what a magnifi- cent King Lear he was! His fearful madness, his deep sorrow, his gruesome laughter, his silly jabberings, his thunderous commands—it was all there—and I forgot the lack of scenery, of costuming and of audience, and it seemed almost as if I once more heard the old master, Salvini. “I had the pleasure of also hearing Mr. Griffith in ‘Richard the Third,’ and his masterly rendition shook all his hearers out of the daily, dull routine and gave us true art, which made us hunger for more.”

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0nrt ltr0 League of the Sacred Heart. Sodality of the Children of Mary. Sodality of the Holy Angels. Eucharistic League. Crrturra 1908-1909 Weekly explanation of Christian Doctrine and Church History..................Rev. C. Mandin Tuberculosis.........................Dr. J. W. Flinn Medical Congress.....................Dr. C. E. Yount “Richard III”...............) Scenes from “King Lear”... ! “Taming of the Shrew”.......J- Mr. C. E. W. Griffith “Hamlet”................... ] “Merchant of Venice”........ J trrlurrH 1909-1919 Christian Doctrine and Church History (weekly).. ..................Rev. C. Mandin Physiology and Hygiene (monthly). .Dr. Flinn and other members of the Medical Association of Arizona Shakespeare.................... ) ,, . j)anfe j Mr. C. E. W. Griffith

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Piano Recital, by Professor J. Homer Grunn of the Arizona School of Music. On Dec. n, 1908, the Yavapai County Medical So- ciety gave a lecture and demonstration on Tuberculosis in the Academy Auditorium. The chair was taken by Dr. R. N. Looney, the President of the Medical Society, and the Prescott physicians occupied seats on the plat- form. Dr. Flinn, who makes a special study of the subject, spoke on the “Cause and Nature of Tuberculosis.” He gave an interesting description of the tubercle bacillus, the active causes of the disease, and referred to its habits and life history, the mode of entrance into the lungs of this tiny micro-organism, as well as the protective forces which nature sets to work to destroy the germ and pre- vent the beginning of the disease. He dwelt at length on the means of prevention. Mrs. H. T. Southworth gave, in a most pleasing and effective manner, two recitations referring to the rest cure and the out-of-door life. Dr. Yount read a very instructive paper on the Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis, which met in Washington, D. C., in September, and which the Doctor attended as delegate from Ari- zona. Dr. Yount gave a vivid word picture of this great gath- ering and the force and enthu- siasm it represented. He de- scribed in detail the exhibits and the work of the dif- ferent sections. All, he said, tended to impress on the minds of those who saw and heard that tuberculosis is a “communicable, curable, and preventable disease,” and that the great hope of prevention is rapha. thamar.