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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, a Federal Theatre labor play, Altars of Steel, had reached its 15th and climactic scene. The boss was barricaded inside his factory. A mob was milling outside the gates. A Liberal swung at a Communist, the Communist shot him, company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...
Under slaveborn Dictator Toussaint L'Ouverture** Haiti had achieved independence. Napoleon challenged it, later captured Toussaint; but his successor, Christophe, kept Haiti free, went on to become its president and king, finally killed himself with a gold bullet. Haiti limits itself to Christophe's (Rex Ingram) rebellion against the French, doubles the excitement with a story of a French officer's wife (Elena Karam) whose father is Christophe's Negro...
...Senators unanimously banned the book from Virginia's schools. Last week, in a final effort to exorcise rum from Virginia, they ordered that copies of the book, printed as a Senate document, be destroyed. To the authors they hastily returned all copyright privileges, leaving Drs. Waddell & Haag free to offer the books to schools in other States if they dared...
...Atlantic City to address the convention, the Committee's chairman, wiry Dr. Floyd Wesley Reeves, tried to smooth the waters by explaining the Committee had not suggested that Federal money go directly to parochial schools, but that States and localities receiving Federal aid be permitted to supply free textbooks, school bus service, scholarships, health and welfare services to parochial school children (as at least five States already...
...powerful tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...