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Unlike sexy Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, Emperor Jones contains no love motif. O'Neill's hero was a Negro convict, a one-time Pullman porter, crapshooter, murderer, who escaped to the West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that...
...Being bled of her hydrogen a few days after arriving from Germany, borrowing the Shenandoah's helium supply for her first flights in the U. S. (Because the gas was scarce in those days, the Shenandoah had to stay at home while her new sister went forth...
...merry bridal shower at Lithuanian Hall. Mrs. Francis Orbich was led to the home of Mrs. George Karpich where she went to sleep on the floor. In the morning she was found dead. In her sleep she had bitten two of her fingers so deeply that she bled to death...
...took them seven weeks, a dozen straining dog teams, an airplane, the life of one constable and the wounding of two others, but last week mad Albert Johnson toppled forward in the snow and bled to death. The reputation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was saved...
...matters close to a head last week was a six-day debate on the Costigan-La Follette bill which was made the Senate's unfinished business. For weeks in committee the Insurgent-Demo-cratic heart of Edward Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...