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Therefore Polish connoisseurs of execution regretted the abrupt dismissal of Hangman Maciejewski last week. They set up his reputation for conscientious professional conduct against the announcement of the Ministry of Justice that he had been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally...
Having now disposed of all that is questionable in the issue, we may turn to a consideration of what is more typical of Lampy at his best. There are three bits of very pleasing verse: the opening rondeau; "A Ballade of Spring" with an appropriate page decoration, and also "Place...
"There is nothing routine about these productions of familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are...
The violently protested cinema drama Dawn, originally intended to portray the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, March 12), had its premiere without incident at Brussels, Belgium, last week, in a version from which incidents concerning Nurse Cavell had been virtually excluded. As revamped, Dawn is concerned chiefly with a...
¶ At Berlin, last week, Dr. Gottfried Benn, onetime Chief Surgeon for the German Army in the Brussels area, declared that he had been an eyewitness of the execution of Miss Cavell and had signed the certificate attesting her death. According to Dr. Benn, Nurse Cavell was blindfolded and tied...