Word: hari
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks. On the site will be built a new clubhouse for the Societe des Auvergnats, whose members...
...Mata Hari," which was reviewed in the CRIMSON on January 7, is now the major attraction at the University Theatre. It has the double disadvantage of being a story enshrouded in legend of which everyone knows something, and of following the similar movie, 'Dishonored." Without Greta Garbo as the famous dancer in the espionage service of the Central Powers, the movie would be utterly unsuccessful, so weak is the plot...
...blind. When she goes to see him in a hospital, she is arrested. In the final scene she marches out in a sweeping black robe in the center of the firing squad leaving her unwitting fiance behind; an ending that is perhaps tactful since myth has it that Mata Hari tore off her clothes, a diplomatic habit of her's, at the last moment...
Regardless of the story "Mata Hari" has a great deal of brilliance and glamour that is not unpleasant. Greta Garbo is always fascinating whether she plays the soiled women of Eugene O'Neil's invention, or the most successful of feminine spies. The movie is worth going to, if only...
...Unrest in Kashmir is practically chronic by reason of the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Sir Hari Singh, over a population of 3,300,000 which is 95% Moslem. The Maharajah achieved international fame in 1924. as the celebrated "Mr. A" who had been victimized of $750,000 by European blackmailers for consorting with an Englishwoman. Moslems now complain that he shows undue official and political favors to Hindus. By rumor, the Indian Government contemplates vesting control of Kashmir in a council of ministers, equivalent to a regency...