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Julius Caesar. Every year the Players' Club presents a classical drama for a short run. This year, during last week only, it was Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with incidental music by Charles L. Safford. The confusion of brilliance in the cast resulted from William Courtleigh (Caesar), James Rennie (Antony), Basil Rathbone (Cassius), Tyrone Power (Brutus), Mary Young (Portia), Homer Croy (Mob), Bruce Bairnsfather...
SALTACRES is a second novel with many of the characteristics one associates with a first. There is plot without novelty, capable and charming description overdone to create a sense of mystery, a medley of characters, some drawn, with breadth, and reality, but others idly cast off or, worse still, caricatured from the conventional types used by the Victorian novelists. What the reader bent on analysis more than care free enjoyment most deplores, however, is the failure of the author to use great opportunities. Action takes place on an ancient but ill-kept farm, Saltacres, close by a marshy lake...
...there is still another reason, and one more cogent still. Mussolini holds sway in Rome, and Mussolini is an expansionist. He has already made Albania an Italian province in all but name, and he has cast longing eyes southward. Should England step out in the interests of the rights of nationality, Mussolini could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill...
Even at this time, submerged as the student is with the final obituaries of his present courses and the preliminary salvos to those of the future, it is not too soon to cast one's eyes toward next year's experiment, an experiment which has fortunately received comparatively little attention from the popular press but one which, were all its consequences realized, is little less than revolutionary. The respite of classes which will take effect before midyear and final examinations in the college year 1927-1928, accepted by the majority of undergraduates under the vague head of "improvements" will...
Therefore last week Professor Masaryk was, for the third time, elected President of Czechoslovakia. He is unquestionably "the nation's choice," but he was elected by only 274 votes out of 434 cast when the Chamber and Senate convened last week as the National Assembly. Thus it was seen that the interplay of politics in Czechoslovakia is gradually building up an Opposition strong enough to menace, at last, even "The Father of His Country...