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...thought General Erich Ludendorff, famed during the War as the "brains of old Field Marshal von Hindenburg." Over a period of several years $300,000 was advanced by General Ludendorff and patriotic friends to one Franz Tausend, alchemist, who promised to make enough gold to pay the Fatherland's debts and leave a comfortable surplus for his backers...
When the $300,000 experiments of Alchemist Tausend failed, he was charged with fraud. Last week he was tried in Munich...
Unimpressed, the Court sentenced Alchemist Tausend to three years and eight months in jail. The Court expressed the opinion that, in his most convincing demonstrations, Tausend had concealed gold foil in a cigaret, flicked the ashes into his crucible...
Breaking away from the fraternity's tradition of presenting revivals of Elizabethan Drama such as Jonson's "Alchemist" and Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday". "The Dumb Boy of Manchester" deals with the melodramatic plot of a dumb hero accused of murder which he cannot explain. His sister, the virtuous heroine and wife of the villain, finally reveals the fact that her husband committed the murder, and he kills himself...
Alceo Dossena lives in Rome, where for years he has sculped in Classical and Renaissance styles. With the secrecy of an alchemist he produces the effect of century-long erosions on his statuary. Alceo insists that he is only a copyist. But he has a Greek Athena in the Cleveland Museum, a Renaissance tomb in the Boston Museum, a chastely draped Grecian maiden in the Metropolitan. The guardians of all these palladiums have been duped. Now they are chagrined...