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...story of its discovery, as told by Admiral Snow, is a record of a quarter-century's search for truth in regard to the famous battle of the Constitution and the Guerriere. He learned from an old newspaper clipping some years ago that the bell of the Guerriere was supposed to be still in existence somewhere in New England, and while hunting for the elusive bell he came across an unpublished manuscript giving a complete history of "Old Ironsides." In a footnote to this manuscript the author mentioned a hitherto unknown work, "Scenes in the Last War," by Moses Smith...
...recent tendency of American plays to explore the lower levels of existence in search of drama includes Kenyon Nicholson's "The Barker", which at the Hollis Street Thoatre has ligtened the theatrical gloom of September Boston. The Barker, played by Walter Huston, is one Nifty Millor, who is the manager as well as the chief adviser of a tent show in a travelling carnival; and the drama results from the unexpected appearance, during a summer vacation, of his son, who is being kept at a safe distance from the hula dancers and educated for the law. Nifty breaks off with...
...Hatton had severed his Cleveland connections, had declined the deanship of the University of Detroit, to become a faculty member at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and conduct there a re-search bureau, assured of $100,000 per annum for five years, for the International City Managers' Association...
Relatives: Machine guns, search lights and fire-hoses were added to the defenses at Charlestown Prison, which none might "approach closer than 1,000 feet. Relatives of the prisoners, however, were admitted to the death house. To reach the death cells they had to pass the electric chair. Prisoner Vanzetti was allowed to leave his cell and embrace his sister, Luigia whom he had not seen for 19 years. Prisoner Sacco saw his wife and 14-year-old son, Dante, to whom he later wrote a farewell letter telling him to comfort his mother, fight the rich, help the weak...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...