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...ALFRED DREYFUS, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of treason by a military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Dreyfus never ceased to protest his innocence. The evidence against him was weak from the start and was later shown to have been fabricated. But Dreyfus was a victim of virulent anti-Semitism. His name was not cleared until 1906, after a bitter and divisive struggle between Dreyfus's accusers and the republicans, socialists and anticlericalists who, led by French novelist Emile Zola, defended his innocence...
...Dreyfus Affair forms the historical background for Dreyfus in Rehearsal, a new play previewing in Boston prior to a Broadway debut later this month. The script, adopted from the French by Director Garson Kanin, is the story of a play-within-a-play. The scene is Vilna, Poland, 1931. An amateur Jewish theatrical group is rehearsing an original play by its director about the Dreyfus incident...
...director of this amateur play has his problems. No one but he seems to understand the relevance of the Dreyfus Affair to the situation of the Jews in Poland. The actor playing Dreyfus doesn't feel adequate to play his role. The other actors all want bigger parts, and a few song and dance routines to lighten up the story...
...Reserve Fund's phenomenal growth rate has prompted organization of several similar funds in recent months. Among them are Dreyfus Liquid Assets, Inc.; Anchor Reserve Fund, Inc., which takes investments as small as $100 initially and $25 thereafter; and Money Market Management, Inc., of Pittsburgh. How well they will do at a time when many interest rates have dropped a bit from their 1973 peaks is moot. Donald Pitti, president of Wiesenberger Services Inc., which among other things publishes analyses of mutual-fund investment records, believes that the new funds are "a product of high interest rates...
...very interested in your piece about the forgotten Cubans. The way it was written makes me think we may have another Sacco-Vanzetti or Dreyfus Case on our hands...