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...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
Appearing in a novel scarlet guise especially for the occasion, the May-Day issue of the Harvard Advocate will appear officially tomorrow. In celebration of the day, sacred to all Communists, and to all who eagerly eye the approach of summer's balmy breezes, the feature article of the issue is "So You're a Parlor Pink" by Julian S. Bach, Jr. '36. Continuing the seasonal trend is an article by David H. Kimball '38, and Norman W. Johnson '38, on "Propaganda and Soviet Literature...
Bothered by 360 identified cases of scarlet fever among Minneapolis children, Health Commissioner Francis Edward Harrington last week imitated the drastic, effective scarlet fever quarantine established in Milwaukee (TIME, March 4), ordered all Minneapolis children under 7 to stay away from school, Sunday school, theatres and all other public gathering places for at least three weeks...
...Journey By Night (adapted by Arthur Goodrich; Shuberts, producers), a hackneyed, pathetically pretentious tale of a romantic young man who ruins himself for a scarlet woman, is less notable as an evening's entertainment than as a record-breaker for failure. Once called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia...
Died. Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs), 88, pioneer detective story writer; in Buffalo, N. Y. Influenced by Emile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins, she published her first work, The Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green...