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...mystery of the attractive protagonist, Emilia Marty, carries you over the rather weak ending of the first act into a second act that is logically and dramatically satisfying. Out of the shadow of the bare stage the characters move into the light which surrounds the world-weary opera singer. She, herself, is removed from reality by the dramatist, but these men and women who come into contact with her are very real. Capek projects them with a tenuous sort of power, following up pathos or amusement with a modern chord of dissonance which startles, arrests, and then intrigues the imagination...

Author: By Leland STANFORD University., | Title: "Makropoulos Secret" Intrigues Both Man on Street and Artist in Workshop | 5/6/1924 | See Source »

Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation the Republican Party has con- sidered the Negroes to be the especial wards of the G. O. P. Last week was instituted a determined move to swing the Negroes to the Democratic column. Various members* of the Executive National Negro Democratic Committee issued a call for a National Democratic Negro Convention in Baltimore, May 27. The announcement: "The Democratic Party is sure of victory this Fall because honesty will be the big issue, and the Republican Party certainly cannot boast of that "The Republican Party has never fulfilled its promises to the Negroes, who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Such Lily Whites | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

Premier MacDonald accepted the plan as "an indivisible whole." The stressing of these words was taken as a reminder to France that Britain will not countenance any move which permits the retention of the Ruhr and that she will not be a party to any modifications aimed at imposing a scale of punishments upon Germany in case of default before she actually defaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARATIONS: Optimism | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

...order to find room for these buildings, which will involve an outlay of some $5,000,000, the University is again forced to move an important part of its work out of Cambridge. The Business School group is to be located in the Brighton district of Boston across the Charles River from the present Freshman group, and will occupy a part of the University's land across the street from the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Harvard Business School Forms Complete Unit | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

Cynics professed to see in this move a final gesture to the Honduran Republic before the U. S. marched into the country, in the same manner as she had done in Haiti in 1915, which action resulted in a virtual protectorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honduran Strife | 4/21/1924 | See Source »