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...devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities do not always make the most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think of themselves as heroes. John Miltern (Reed), Robert Keith (Lazear), Barton MacLane (Carroll) and some...
...them. Forty-eight hours after his capture, three after his sentencing, bandaged Munischreiter, still protesting that he had never fired his rifle, met Herr Lang and his noose in the Vienna prison courtyard. He was cut down seven hours later at midnight, and replaced by Dr. George Weissl, heroic commandant of the Socialist fight in the Floridsdorf suburb. Said he: "I die with no regrets. I am a worker and I have fought to save my home...
...This heroic defense of Belgium's integrity and of the safety of the allied powers has won for King Albert a reputation which the world will never forget. In ten days he had given dramatic proof to the world that there was still one King who could act like a King. And the long career so recently ended was devoted to showing his countrymen that in the hard, uncompromising, undramatic facts of government and politics Albert was still no less a royal figure...
...could pull American Woolen out of the red before writing him up as a business hero worthy of the laurels of the Press. At the end of the second year the company's deficit was $7,269,000-the worst on record. Mr. Warner certainly did not look heroic to his stockholders. But last week, at the end of the third year, American Woolen announced its earnings for 1933. For the first time in six years it had made money-$7,053,000. And for the first time in seven years it declared a dividend ($1.25) on the preferred...
Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in "heroic couplets." Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used as a serious poetic form. For the English, especially, it still has a half-humorous academic charm. Author Laver, onetime winner of Oxford's Newdigate Poetry Prize, comports himself with fair grace in these borrowed 18th Century garments but never rises to the level of Pope's elegance or acid...