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...ordinary prologue and three acts is "Weeds" at the Hollis Street Theatre. Doubtless the playwrights, John B. Hymes and LeRoy Clemens, called it a comedy drama for lack of a better name, for it fits no dramatic pigeonhole. The prologue, which is weird melodrama, takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo...
...metre) set being used. In addition to code reports, by MacMillan and Flight-Commander Richard E. Byrd, to the National Geographic Society and the Navy Department, U. S. operators even picked up, indistinctly, a musical program by the Peary's rough and ready orchestra, a speech by MacMillan, weird chants that the Bowdoin's operator explained were Eskimos singing...
...Weird chants that the Bowdoin's operator explained...
...preacher from Georgia in a bungalow on wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...
...charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against the Regent...