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Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
...light on the break, which is now believed to have taken place six weeks ago instead of two as announced. Further, a large proportion of the press look upon the whole thing as a hoax, one rumor being spread that a New York reporter had bribed a student to commit the crime for the sake of publicity...
...demons in the energumen readily identified themselves. One was Judas. Another was the woman's dead father, named Jacob, who said he was damned for attempting unsuccessfully to induce her to commit incest with him. A third was Mina, the dead man's concubine, who said she had "murdered four little ones." Finally there were Beelzebub and hordes of imps who seemed to leave and reenter the energumen's body. The voices of all the demons issued from her mouth, with varying intonation, in English, German and Latin...
...University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal would mark a closer liaison be tween U. S. and French...
...children, the abhorrence of the Church is maximum. Further, last week's Pastoral Letter explicitly declared that for a Catholic to be a Socialist, or study or teach Socialism, or cooperate to Socialist ends, or even for appearance's sake to feign to approve Socialism, is to commit a "mortal...