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...cast will be as follows: Joseph, J. F. Joyce Jr. '32: G. C. Turner '32. Herod; R. L. C. Rein'l '34, Isiah; W. S. Burrage, J. C. Cort '35, and W. B. Cudahy '34, the Three Kings; R. A. Dunn '32, Captain of the Guard: James Carleton '32, Marshal Smith '32, T. F. Crane '33, M. J. Crowley '34, and S. C. Munroe attendants to the king, Bettye Jeanne Crocker, Mary; Marie Driscoll, Rose Mary McKew, and Barbara Wertheim, Nuns...
...Umbrian Play dating from the middle ages will be presented by the Harvard Dramatic Club as its annual Christmas miracle play. Two performances of this drama, which deals chiefly with the Nativity and with Herod's court, will be given in front of the Freiburg Cathedral facade in the Germanic Museum. Besides these, which will be at 5 at 9 o'clock on Sunday, the Club hopes to broadcast this play from station WBZ at 3 o'clock on the same...
...Edward Massey '15, the director, owing to the importance of its scenic and costume effects. The miracle play gives excellent opportunities for brilliant costumes, which will be chosen by Miss Rose Briggs, sister of former Dean Le Baron Russell Briggs '75. The central figure in the play is Herod, a boisterous ranting character typical of the medieval idea of this king. There will be no charge for admission to the presentations...
...gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME...
Barzor was scion of a rich Jewish family, prosperous and happy. His life was ruined when his young wife and child were killed in Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents. His attempt to murder Herod in revenge failed; by a series of lucky accidents he escaped into the desert to friendly Arabs. But he had become a man of fixed idea, and only bided his time to launch a rebellion against Herod and the eRomans who kept him in power. Then he met Rongus, a young Jew who had been sold into slavery by a mercenary uncle. Too high-spirited...