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Inferior to Strindberg's The Father and Lady Julia, The Bridal Crown needs miraculously controlled acting to stay within bounds. Except for Aurora Bonney, the cast snubbed all current theories of acting, kept declaiming as from the scaffold, made a stage whisper sound like a call to arms...
...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...hours the body dangled from the scaffold as Beirut natives halted their early morning tasks to gaze on the grisly scene. Women milled about, bargaining with guards for a piece of the hanging rope, chattering that it was the best protection against barrenness...
Among the lofty eminences Robert Carl Zuppke, University of Illinois football coach, has occupied, one of the first was a scaffold high over Broadway! He had finished the University of Wisconsin in 1905 and was making his way as a sign painter while he studied pictures in the Metropolitan Museum...
...busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...