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...friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With Ralph Richardson brilliant as Peer and Dame Sybil Thorndike a tender, humorous Aase, the play swept on to a 20-minute ovation...
...understand. The old gent, Warren Delano, President Roosevelt's grandfather, was an old-time opium smuggler, a member of something rather like our own Rum Row which operated off the New York coast a few years ago. The ships ran the stuff from India into China, whose emperor had seen the ravages of the drug among his people and was trying to saw them...
Presented to the University by more than 1000 Chinese alumni during the Tercentennial celebration in 1936, the monument belonged originally to Emperor Chia Ch'ing, of the Ch'ing dynasty. The emperor presented it to one of his favorite governors in the year 1810, and it remained in China until the Tercentenary, when Dr. J. Heng Lin '09, of Nanking, purchased it as a gift for Harvard, in recognition of the educational contributions of America's oldest college...
...before he died, this plain man and radical saw the monument that will preserve his name. That monument, not merely Norris Dam but the entire Tennessee Valley Authority, is greater than any Pharaoh or any emperor ever...
Said Radio Tokyo: officials received by the Emperor have promised "supreme efforts to ease His Majesty's august mind." Considering the blows that were soon to fall on the Empire, His Majesty's officials had taken on a big order...