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...Alien Corn (By Sidney Howard; Katharine Cornell, producer). Once every year or so comes a fine play like this one to bring dignity and value to the U. S. Theatre. As a rule, Eugene O'Neill writes it. This time it is written by another excellent native stagecraftsman, Sidney Howard...
Conway College lies a few hours west of Chicago. It is a struggling little plantation of bay and laurel choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach...
...beauty and power of Miss Cornell's art have never been set to better advantage. A cast of able actors performs with rare sympathy parts which are written with uniform deftness and inspiration. Alien Corn has to it the good salt taste of Ibsen. In 1925 Playwright Howard got a Pulitzer Prize for his They Knew What They Wanted. He may well get another...
...During the Harding Administration Thomas Woodnut Miller, Alien Property Custodian, was on the fringe of the "Ohio Gang." As the liquidated assets of American Metals Co., seized during the War, he paid $6,453,979 to a German capitalist named Richard Merton representing a Swiss concern. As his "fee" Merton turned $441,000 in Liberty Bonds over to G. O. Politicians. Of this sum $50,000 was traced to Miller who claimed he received it as payment of a debt the party owed him. Other amounts went to Jesse Smith. Attorney General Harry Daugherty's henchman, and to Connecticut...
...exile Peter Verigin II is possible because he came later, is an alien; but an alien convicted of a crime may be deported after serving half his prison term. Last May, on the same day that 118 other Doukhobors were given three-year sentences for parading naked, Peter Verigin II was jailed for perjury. He hoped to be sent to Mexico (whose government would permit 10,000 Doukhobors to settle there) but Canada preferred to return him to the land of his birth. Canadian officials called his death-talk the usual plea of deportable persons, said...