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Substitute for Murder (by William Jourdan Rapp & Leonards Bercovici; William Harris Jr., producer) will probably win no championships even in the featherweight division. Originally titled Oedipus Wrecks, it concerns a pair of mischievously psychopathic youngsters who resent the appreance of a prospective stepfather, fill him full of liquor, send him up as a stowaway on an endurance flight. But the stowaway comes down, thus definitely deflating the younsters' scheme and, incidentally, Substitute for Murder...
That the late, great Aristide Briand lived & died a gay, gallant bachelor, all France knew and understood. Last week the Peace Man's will was published. Gallantly it bestows upon Mme Lucie Uro Jourdan his beloved farm at Cocherel in Normandy...
Piqued by the sharp question of a U. S. newshawk, an old friend of Aristide Briand irritably replied, "Who is Mme Jourdan, Monsieur? She was the last, naturellement...
...Jourdan's farm at Cocherel was bought by Briand with his Nobel Peace Prize money (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). The rest of his estate, believed to total le"ss than $4,000, goes to his sister and niece...
...followed a period of successful activity during which time many excellent plays were produced. Among them may be mentioned "Manacles," by H. K. Moderwell '12, "The Scales and the Sword," by F. Bishop '08, "The Night Riders," by Edwin Carty Ranck '13, at that time a special student, "Alaric Jourdan's House," by R. M. Townsend '96, "Kid," by Elmer Caroline Ehrlich, Radcliffe Sp., and "The Foundlings," by Annie Andros Hawley, also a special student at Radcliffe. The stage settings for "The Night Riders" were markedly realistic and the whole atmosphere of the play was a faithful reproduction of life...