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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost every important international conference since. A scholar, a brilliant speaker commanding ten languages, he bases his political strength squarely on a platform of ardent nationalism. That he has been of many nationalities, in the legal sense, is explained by the fact that the district in which he was born has been, during his lifetime, once Russian, once German, several times Lithuanian and is now Polish. By general repute Premier Valdemaras is deemed relatively normal, in contrast with the unguessable moods and eccentricities of Marshal Pilsudski...
Capablanca was born in Cuba 39 years ago. When he was eight he had beaten the best players in Havana. When he was 19 he went to New York to college, at Columbia where he was captain of the chess team...
...champion is four years younger than the old. He was born in Moscow and achieved the foundation of his present eminence when he won the Russian National tournament in 1909. To him, chess is less a philosophy than a war. He imagines the chessmen as weapons, not as words; his play is marked from the beginning with a sort of slow-burning and intricate belligerence...
...pluage with proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman in the "You Can't Win" subway signs; the renegade will do his drinking down alleys in order to avoid the pointing fingers of abused wives and George Washingtons...
...play was written by Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Sullivan, who was born in Nebraska. The coaching of this 34th production of the Dramatic Club was done by Edward Massey '15, who has directed many successful plays at the University in former years. Mr. Massey was a very active character artist as an undergraduate, and has divided his time since graduation directing plays in New since graduation directing plays in New York and at Cambridge...