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Here is a clever, biting political satire born of the nimble brain and acid wit of Walter Hasenclaver, "der bose bub" of German dramatists since the passing of the terrible Widekind, staged all over Europe as an example of Hasenclaver "boseheit," adapted as a piece of Soviet propaganda by the People's Commisar of Education at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and now staged for the first time in this country by the Harvard Dramatic Club on the basis of a fresh literal translation from the German text as the forty-third production of the society...
...tents and bamboo shanties. Correspondents were not sure but what St. Gandhi was drawing near his Waterloo. Younger elements in the party were urging violent resistance to the British Raj. Leaders of this young rebellion against elderly, non-violent Mr. Gandhi were the Mayor of Calcutta, Subhas Chandra Bose and the retiring President of the Congress, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru...
Before the delegates met again Mayor Bose of Calcutta had also thrown up his sponge, and Mr. Gandhi had served upon the Congress a characteristic ultimatum. "My inner voice tells me," he said, "that if resolutions approving the course I have taken are not passed my country will need me no longer. I would then be convinced that the people of India had not responded to my call, and I would therefore starve myself to death...
...dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued to demonstrate for independence and had to be locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked up again by policemen who doubtless felt foolish. In London, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began...
...their studio doors. There are dormitories for men, equipment for physical recreation, an excellent library. Worthiest advertisement is a list of Peterborough patrons and their products. It includes Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson whose Tristram was Peterborough-born, Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), Playwright Du Bose Heyward (Porgy), Composer Aaron Copeland...