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...Rightist seaplane crash off Majorca. Long before the world had heard of brother Francisco, dashing, sometimes revolutionary aviator Ramón had made headlines. In 1926 he made the first flight from Europe to South America. Later he took part in several rash, poorly timed, badly organized plots against Alfonso XIII. Though respected by some Spanish Republicans, the hard-&-fast Leftist invariably suspected him of exhibitionism...
...Bluff, rotund Primo de Rivera seemed solidly in power in Spain from 1923 to 1930. He scrapped the constitution, ruled by decree, sent his opponents to exile, clamped down on free speech and press. When Marcosson saw Primo after Alfonso's abdication, he had no uniform, smartness, or confidence, said good-by shakily, raced to Paris where he died forgotten in a Left Bank hotel...
...Died. Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 31, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, who in 1933 renounced his right of succession to marry first one commoner and then another; of his family disease, hemophilia,* brought on by injuries when the car in which he was being driven by a night-club cigaret-girl smashed into a telegraph pole; in Miami, Fla. In accordance with directions cabled by his royal parents, he was buried on the spot, with simple Catholic rites...
...their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity of the all-important diction being further obscured by the muffling of the words behind a heavy curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with creditable smoothness, and the costumes by Alfonso Ossorio '38 and the lighting by George Wells contributed to the professional atmosphere of the production. All credit should be given to the Poet's Theatre of Harvard for undertaking such a difficult and rewarding task and congratulations offered for the measure of success achieved...
...Alfonso Ossorio will design the costumes for "Alcestis," and Dr. A. M. G. Little of the Classics Department has made the settings, while Robert D. Woodward '37 is stage-manager and Henry Urews is the House Business Manager...