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...Tobacco War, which swept the tobacco land of Kentucky in 1905, was a strange, remote, bitter fight. It started when farmers' hatred of the newly organized Tobacco Trust exploded: warehouses were burned, an unknown number of barns destroyed, hundreds of tobacco farmers were arrested for arson, murder, conspiracy; martial law shut down...
...Manhattan, during the battle scene of Maurice Evans' Henry IV, Part I, the offstage martial hurly-burly is provided by a gramophone record. Newshawks discovered its name: General Excited Confusion of Crowd at Baseball Game...
...week's theatre-going into two nights. But not altogether sound: in slashing two-thirds of what Shakespeare wrote, Welles ripped out much that was dull but more that was vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic life, psychological conflict...
...Caudillo climaxed his martial pageant with his first radio address since the fall of Catalonia, assured those Spaniards under his rule that "the symbol and guarantee of our future is the army you acclaimed today...
Last week, with Hungary under martial law and the Premier's racial bills facing probable defeat, Dr. Imredy was forced to admit that he had made an embarrassing and belated discovery. A deeper search into genealogical records had uncovered the unfortunate fact that his maternal great-grandfather had been born a Jew and that he himself was thus one-eighth Jewish. After some necessary promptings by old Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, Dr. Imredy resigned in a mood of self-immolation. Said he: "I held, and still hold, that legislation for the regulation of Jewish participation in the economic...