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Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince...
Therefore the Madrid censor was unquestionably justified in quashing Jacinto Benavente's play and issuing the following communique: "The dramatist has been authorized to issue his work only in a revised book form. It is believed that the public, when it knows the work, will realize it would be dangerous to the people's spiritual tranquillity and peace of mind to allow it to be performed...
...Houston's 700 Texan patriots could play a tune on a fife; one could beat a drum. They pooled their resources and sounded like a regimental band as Houston fell upon the Mexican Santa Anna on the bank of the San Jacinto. Texan vengeance for the massacre of the Alamo was satisfied; Texan independence was guaranteed; Sam Houston returned to lay out the city which bears his name, to become President of Texas, U. S. Senator when Texas entered the Union. It was an important battle hymn the fifer played over and over again at San Jacinto. Its lyric...
...story of "Old San Jacinto" and his friends-Old Hickory, Austin, Bowie (of the knife)-is inherently so dramatic that his present biographer's insistence upon long documentary quotations only retards the action. Equitable, Author Creel prints interesting letters and records defaming his hero, but precedes them with such convincing evidence of Sam Houston's bravery and devoted patriotism, that one recognizes in the abuse merely the jealousies that accumulate around any dynamic personality...
...Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time in routing the Mexicans at the battle of San Jacinto and capturing General Santa Anna...