Word: pl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the definite announcement that LIFE'S photographer Arthur Griffin will cover the show at its first public performance tomorrow night, the new Pl Eta Club production, "Give, Baby, Give" swings into action. First performance is tonight for the graduates, and the final one occurs Saturday evening; a formal dance will be held after the show tomorrow night...
...Berlin's Plötzensee Penitentiary last week a shining ax crashed down. Off rolled the head of intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew arrested last December for plotting to kill "a high German official"-subsequently believed to be Jew-baiter Julius Streicher-with a bomb (TIME, May 3). Hirsch's family lives in Czechoslovakia, but U. S. diplomats in Berlin had taken him under their wing because his grandfather was a naturalized U. S. citizen. U. S. newspapers whooped for his life, but Hirsch, throughout his imprisonment, admitted he was guilty. He did not deny...
...death-cell last week in Plötzensee Penitentiary in Berlin sat pale-faced, intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew who was arrested last December for plotting to kill with a bomb "a high German official" who newshawks quickly assumed was Dictator Hitler. Hirsch declared: "I expect no clemency and I am calm and await death with perfect composure." Less calm was Berlin's U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had gone to great pains to intercede for Prisoner Hirsch on the grounds that, though his family lives in Czechoslovakia, he is a U. S. citizen...
Poet MacLeish has a low opinion of the U. S. artist ("the plump Mr. Pl'f) who decries the U. S., who prefers Cypresses mentioned in Horace or Henry James: He prefers a country where everything carries the name of a Countess or real king or an actual palace or Something in Prose and the stock prices all in Italian...
...followed in the law courts of that country. The judge and attorneys, according to the tradition, wear the customary black robes and white wigs.PI ETA THEATER, WHERE H. D. C. WILL GIVE PLAY "CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE," Fall Production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, will be presented next week in the Pl Eta Theater...