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...House of Glass" by Max Marcin is at the St. James this week. It is a play that moves along easily enough, with the convict problem and the give-him-another-chance idea as motivators. Needless to say the problem it not solved; it never is. Nevertheless it is a good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater...
...Germany is smiling at the ease with which the defendants obtain a verdict of not guilty. Dignity and reasonableness are masks as easily assumed as is the guise of poverty. But why assume a disguise at all? Certainly no one is deceived by a trial that does not convict and a court that never condemns. There is no need in raising a hue and cry about punishment, if the punishment is never going to fall. The court and its actions are doubtless very diverting to the Germans, but they are not so to the rest of the world; nations...
...denounced the draft. For this he was imprisoned in Newark, N. J., under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. It is practically from this experience only that he has gained his knowledge of prison systems that Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne acquired by voluntarily entering Sing as a convict...
...author of the play , as Rufus Dubb, the here, gave his part very creditably, and showed that he was not "another good man gone wrong". W. V. M. Faweett '21 is the assumed character of the 12-year-old Phoebe. P. L. Cheney '21 as the especial convict and R. S. Flinn '28, who played Mark Authony, the butler, provided an ample supply of humor...
...Osborne has for the last fifteen years been interested in a reform of prison conditions, especially in New York State. In 1913 he spent several days in Auburn Prison as a convict in order to study the life of a prisoner. The conclusions which he reached at that time he put into effect shortly afterwards when he became Warden of Sing Sing. His actions, however, brought him into conflict with certain elements in the political parties of the state and resulted in his resignation as head of the prison a few years ago. During the past few years...