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With his music Taylor did not get off to a happy start. In the opening ballroom scene the waltz which he had long aspired to do in the Strauss genre was muddled and thin. The singing on the stage seemed to have little relation to the rambling accompaniment in the...
Although stern, Hungarian justice is well tempered by mercy. This was the first execution of a woman in Hungary since 1867, the year in which Kaiser Franz Joseph was crowned King. He would permit no woman to be hanged, and not until the present gruesome epidemic of female poisonings occurred...
The Fish Report offers a series of recommendations which aim at nothing loss than rooting Communism out of the United States by strong-arm methods. Whether one believes in Communistic principles or whether he shuns them as sheer anathema, such a study of history reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under...
Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a...
In the opinion of Briton Brailsford, "cold English brains" devised the system whereby bands of native police, especially in the rural districts, set upon individual Indian men & women and beat them. "The execution [of this plan] was left to hotter heads and rougher hands," notably to Mohuntal Shah, chief Indian...