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...Without Women (Fox). This piece shows how men, trapped under water in a wrecked submarine, behave. The crew of the 513 comes back from shore leave, goes to sea. The 513 is sunk. They have enough air to live about five hours. At first their imminent fate is merely an unthinkable horror, remote and impersonal: it becomes human and tragic because, as time passes, in the manner in which each man faces or avoids the thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command...
There has, however, been a movement counteracting the prevalent stuffy conditions of the atmosphere in classrooms, by opening the windows and letting in the icy blast. Again, there comes an impediment to this policy, for after five minutes refrigeration near the windows, he unfortunate ones whose fate it is to be so located are prone to close them. In effect although the stifling conditions and foul air may be a means of promoting one's indifference, even the most unconventional hesitate to yawn in Professor Kittredge's face...
...Brahms Festival, which will take place in Symphony Hall, Boston, from Friday, March 21 to Wednesday, March 26, the Glee Club and Choral Society will sing jointly in two concerts, the Requiem, Song of Fate, Love Sougs, and Rhapsody...
...rapidly appears that the King, in whom "confidence" is technically vested, is furious that the Dictator has gone behind the royal back to ask the "confidence" of Captains General. Attempts at explanation by the dizzy Dictator are royally ignored. The Dictator leaves the Palace with his fate already sealed?unless he should decide to defy the King. Despatches covering all this are filed by Scooper de Gandt and pass the Spanish censor who will later deny their truth. Fearing that they will not pass, the Scooper dashes to a telephone, talks the scoop to Paris for relay to New York...
...fifty years hence will say concerning the first decade of National Prohibition. The only certainty appears to be that plenty of attention will be paid to a question that is engrossing a nation ten years after the court of supreme appeal supposedly once and for all settled the fate of John Barleycorn...