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Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
...against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...every subject known to have a brain tumor, or subsequently found to have one, of whatever size, the MIO was definitely higher than normal. Olfactory fatigue (individual increase of MIO after prolonged whiffing) was also longer than normal. Extent to which the MIO and fatigue were abnormal furnished a rough clue to the size and depth of the tumor. Finally, unequal distribution of scent power and endurance between the two nostrils showed that the tumor was located wholly or mostly in one hemisphere of the brain...
...judge (Richard Bennett), out of his wits with brooding upon the injustice he fears has been done. There is Garth, who saw the robbery committed and might have saved the condemned man had he but spoken. There is the radical's tough and tortured young son Mio (Burgess Meredith), relentlessly set upon clearing his father's name...
...fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...