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...Emperor Hirohito, in cutaway and striped trousers, and Empress Nagako, in a pastel kimono and silver fox furs, greeted some 170,000 well-wishers in Tokyo from the balcony of a pavilion on their palace preserve. Customarily presenting a poem to his subjects on New Year's Day, Hirohito this year delighted everyone by producing two. Both, as always, suffered from translation into English. The first, inspired by Japan's annual tree-planting rites last spring, was titled Reforestation...
...four shirts and four pairs of socks. Kun's strong-arm methods and inflationary money found no favor with the peasants, who boycotted the markets. Meanwhile, Hungary's military and aristocracy were rallying to another banner, that of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, a former naval aide to the Emperor Franz Josef and a naval hero in World War I. Horthy organized a counterrevolution to oust Kun, and Kun was forced to flee to Vienna (he later turned up in Russia, where Stalin executed...
...early last week Port-au-Prince's stores, gas stations, factories and big Iron Market, source of most of the city's food, were shut tight. In a scene reminiscent of The Emperor Jones, Magloire in full uniform paraded through town demanding that merchants open up. They either avoided their presidential visitor or refused his demands. Two days later, somewhat humbler, Magloire called in his constitutional successor, Supreme Court President Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, and turned over the office of chief executive...
...Emperor Jones is familiar enough to the audience so that the present abridged version conveys nearly all of O'Neill's original. Instead of first seeing Jones as the corrupt misruler of a jungle island we first meet him as he is fleeing from the wrath of his subjects, plunging into the jungle. The emperor bursts on stage, confident and arrogant, but already tired of running. The fear and disintegration seen in Jones on his frantic flight is echoed remorselessly by the ceaseless native drums, coming louder and closer and faster until, finally, Jones is shot. At this ponit...
...Theatre Workshop, program four, finds Hal Scott, who could never pass as a freshman amateur, trying very little experimental, but doing it very well, in a judiciously edited Emperor Jones and the some-what staggering The Purification. Prefatory remarks, concerning some H.D.C. production next week, by Stephen Aaron '57, Esq. Others. At 3:10 and 8:15 p.m. today in Agassiz...