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...Crimson stickmen as Brookline has one of the best high school teams in Greater Boston. The Freshmen will have the same regular sextet which scored the 13 to 0 triumph over the M. I. T. Freshmen, since L. W. Pratt, who was out last Wednesday with an attack of grip, has returned to the line...
...speaker then sketched the relations of Macbeth and his wife, interlinked with the plot. Carrying them through the murder of Duncan, he showed the hero becoming more resolute as fate tightened its grip. "Lady Macbeth", went on Professor Kittredge, "is an indispensable support to her courageous, but none too steady, husband. Following the scene with Banquo's ghost, the heroine instills renewed vitality into Macbeth's flagging spirits...
Fanning opened the debate by outlining the issue which was under discussion. He said that the problem primarily deals with Europe because Europe not only controls the League, but is the League. The Europe of today, he maintained, is exactly the Europe of 1914, in the grip of a regime of materialistic secret diplomacy. His main point was that in justice to herself America must, for the present, remain out of the League; first because the Covenant of the League has been violated through the trafficking in mandated territory; and second, because the balance of power is still alive...
...different from "East Lynne' and other plays of that class as "Othello" is from "Declassee". Written way back in the dark ages (1903), it none the less closely resembles the best of our current "thrillers" where the light comedy touch is not always unfelt beneath the clammy grip of Horror, and of which "the Green Goddess" is a shining example. It is thoroughly English in atmosphere-despite the fact that the collaborator, Mr. Presbury, is an American. Indeed, in view of the fate of sundry other foreign works at the hands of some of our theatrical countrymen, this...
Captain Hibben described the famine which has a large part of Russia in its grip. "No one in America can realize how terrible the conditions really are. This wholesale death by starvation is more terrible than can be imagined. The Soviet government has spent $115,000,000 in gold for relief, but they can do no more, and the nations of the world must take up the cause...