Vane's picture" in which Vane is lampooned thus: Browning added, "The word struck me as a distinctive part of a nun's attire that might fitly pair off with the cowl appropriated to a monk." The blunder was pointed out by H. W. Fay in 1888. Adaptations and influences Theatrical productions and films In 1899 the Boston Browning Society staged an adapted version by Helen Archibald Clarke (1860–1926). An abridgment of Pippa Passes by Henry Miller was premiered at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway on 12 November 1906. It inspired a silent film adaptation starring Gertrude Robinson (and including Mary Pickford in a minor role) which was made in 1909. The film omitted the scenes involving Luigi and the Monsignor, and included a new episode involving a repentant drunkard. It was directed by D. W. Griffith (with cinematography by Arthur Marvin), whose experiments with naturalistic lighting were deemed a great success; he later named it as his greatest film. An adaptation of A Blot in the 'Scutcheon was to follow in 1912, and another Griffith film, The Wanderer (1913) reproduces the theme of Pippa Passes with a flutist instead of a singer. Pippa Passes was revived at the Neighborhood Playhouse by Alice Lewisohn on 17 November 1918, and was a great success. Other Ada Galsworthy set Pippa Passes to music, together with In The Doorway, published in 1907. The town of Pippa Passes, Kentucky, is formally named after the poem thanks to a grant from the Browning Society. The anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion references the most famous section of Pippa Passes in the slogan of the central shadowy NERV organization - "God's in his heaven - all's right with the world." P. G. Wodehouse excerpts a passage from Act I: Morning in the final chapter of his novel: The Code of the Woosters References External links 1841 poems 1841 plays Plays by Robert Browning Poetry by Robert Browning Victorian poetry