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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grand triumph, George Weller, internationally known playwright has out-done all his previous efforts. His latest and greatest work, the climax of a happy life is now being performed at the Hasty Pudding. It is an adaptation of the "Electra" of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child". From the opening curtain to the last bow of smiling actor grim tragedy stalks the scene, tears flow and countless lumps rise in an equally indefinite number of throats. This is all the more remarkable as the adaptation is in reality meant to be a comedy...
...Edward Beale McLean whose mother is Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh. Her Easter party was made sensational by a simple yet extremely clever device. She served orangeade-nothing stronger-and let it be known that since President Hoover...
Presented with a list of 1,081,952 lost soldiers in 1919, the Commission has done so well that today the whereabouts of all but 326,256 are known. Corpses "identified and buried" total 582,783, while only 173,213 have had to be interred as "unknown soldiers." Especially tasteful has been the advice of Artistic Adviser Sir Frederic Kenyon, in collaboration with seven Principal Architects, five of whom are knights...
...support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China, for it is known that the Treasury was abruptly tapped by the President for $5,000,000 cash...
...nberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...