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Double-Cross. Following these wholesale arrests, the fruit of a year and more of sleuthing by the French police, the Spanish Government expressed its gratitude and its relief at this nipping of the plot upon French soil...
...next three years the Dramatic Club offered a series of one-act plays, all written by Harvard students or graduates. A dramatization of Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers" was done with mediocre results, since the plot did not lend itself well to stage production. Cleves Kinkead, who was studying at Harvard in 1914 and whose "Common Clay" won the Craig prize for the same year, wrote "The Four Flushers," which the Dramatic Club produced. On the same bill was "The Clod," by E. L. Beach '13. "The Clod" has since toured the country on various vaudeville circuits...
...drama of mediaeval Spain--"Pedro the King," by Miss A. Anthony Wyse of Cambridge, was the program of the following year. Coming as it did after the enormously popular "Makropoulos Secret", any play of conventional plot, or at least a plot which made no pretense o "modernistic" ideas, was bound to seem comparatively. But this tale of a tyrant whose cruelty won him immortality was anything but unexciting. Nevertheless it proved one of the less popular of Dramatic Club Productions...
...milieu of harlots and bootleggers like that in a prior hit, Broadway* (TIME, Sept. 27). Act III: So the bootlegger murdered by the hero was his f-th-r . . . and the Governor's wife was his m-th-r. . . . Shissh, Shussh! Off with the noose. A neatly meshed plot running smoothly with hokum in all the grease cups...
...plot centers about a conspiracy to dethrone the caliph of the city, and place in his stead a treacherous, vizier who works, in conspiracy with a court dancer, to seize the ruler's daughter, who, with the aid of a self-declared magician, exposes the treachery by preying upon the superstition of the caliph...