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Comment concerning the incarceration of John Abbott '25, in an Italian gaol has been rife among members of the Current Events Club at Harvard during the last two days. Of course, the subject does possess enough local background to give it savor and flavor. Yet, after all, its importance is, to say the most, conversational...
...students who were away last night have not yet been entered. The janitor had gone home at the time of the hold-up and no pass keys could be secured. The belief that the fugitive ducked into some unlocked room and snapped the lock after him was still rife among many of the occupants of Matthews late last night...
With enthusiasm roused to a high pitch as a result of the victory over Brown, and with speculation rife as to who will appear in the coveted seats on the platform, not an inch of room is expected to be vacant tomorrow night...
...long or absorb his whole attention. Dictatorship is absolute. There is no freedom of speech, political assembly, or from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Deportations to Siberia still occur. People are still shot because an aristocratic emigre in Paris drunkenly mumbled sounds which resembled their name. Suspicion and espionage are rife. But the people seem happy, in the main...
...second act, ending with the shooting is rife with tension which explodes as the play ends in a blare of red fire. For the girl has dis. covered treachery in her fisherman and repays it by exploding a gas drum and nearly blowing him off the lighthouse. Smoke and screams fill the theater. The witnesses seemed to like it. There are several good performances, not the best of which was Blanche Yurka's as the lighthouse keeper...