Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened its sixth season with a capable little comedy by John Galsworthy. It is a thesis play, indicating that mortals fail to face facts; the windows through which they look at life are dusty. Chief exponent of the argument is an unfortunate girl who takes domestic service after a prison term. She is promptly discovered in the arms of the son of the house. While these things furnish two hours of agreeably interesting conversation, it cannot be said that the plan is either philosophically or dramatically momentous...
CAPTURES - John Galsworthy- Scribner ($2.00). Sixteen short stories, well above the average. In Late-299, the tale of an ex-convict who refused to be pitied, Mr. Galsworthy again displays his hatred of the prison system already attacked in Justice. Had a Horse is an amusing sketch of an English bookie who, after years of making a quietly shady living by betting on horses he never saw, comes by accident into the ownership of a real race horse, and blown with pride of possession, deliberately does himself out of a considerable bit of dishonest money for the pleasure of seeing...
...That body protested vigorously against the "corrupt practices of the Government." While it asserted that it would employ only peaceful means, there was some talk of revolution. Perhaps the Zayas administration, which would like to silence the objections, suggested their revolutionary intent for an excuse to clap them into prison...
...political situation is generally quiet, the Communist element being deprived of their leaders, who are in prison or on the other side of the borders of Spain. King Alfonso is reported to have been forced to accept the Dictatorship or abdicate. The Directorate is not unpopular in Spain and if it is successful in carrying out its reforms it will undoubtedly consolidate the Spanish Monarchy...
...peace there, for the devastation and revolution cost Ireland about 40,000,000 pounds sterling." It became known, paradoxically enough, that the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera were unknown. The discovery was made by the anxious Mrs. Eamon de Valera, who went to visit her husband at Mount Joy prison, Dublin. Her husband's presence there was denied. Later she sent a wire to the Adjutant General : " Please inform me of the whereabouts of my husband." She received no reply. The first anniversary of the death of Michael Collins,* First Commander-in-chief of the Free State Army...