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...occasional messages were keyed so that Western Union could send them by merely dispatching the code number of the message with the addressee's name, the sender's signature. But Mr. Willever had not yet applied a special rate to the pre-fabricated telegram. It remained for the second summer of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 to provide that wrinkle. To the throng of sightseers Mr. Willever offered form telegrams of greeting to be delivered for 25? anywhere in the U. S. So successful was this stunt that this year all Western Union "fixed texts...
SEVEN RED SUNDAYS-Ramon J. Sender -Liveright ($2.50). Wild and powerful novel of the Spanish revolutionary movement, by a young novelist who has come to be regarded as one of the most promising in Spain, and who dedicates his book to the anarchosyndicalists, "dreaming of a strange state of society in which all men are as disinterested as St. Francis of Assisi, bold as Spartacus, and able as Newton and Hegel...
...Hebraic incantations of Elohim and Adonai a sacred promise was made in Detroit one night last week. The Jew Sender ben Henie swore before Jehovah that, if his unborn child should be a girl, he would marry her to the son of his faithful neighbor Nissen. But Nissen died leaving his son poor while Sender grew rich and increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years...
...stage strangely dark the pact between Sender and Nissen was pledged in such a leisurely prolog that many a Detroiter shifted uneasily, began to fear for the evening to come. First act picked up when the scene changed to the interior of a synagog. Comics were the bearded batlans who droned their prayers for a kopek or two, spent their earnings on vodka. A tragic, pale-faced figure was Hanan, Nissen's son, torn between the Talmud and the cabalistic mysticism which used to be feared by all good Jews. By prayers and fasting Hanan had hoped finally...
...died committing a sin. Such a spirit, it once was believed, could return to earth, take heathenish possession of an innocent mortal. In the opera last week it was the tortured Hanan who bewitched Leah. To exorcise his spell she was led before an ancient rabbi to whom Sender admitted his treachery, gladly consented to renounce half his riches. Persistent prayers were said over Leah, who dropped lifeless when Hanan's spirit left her. Finale came with their love duet, frankly lyrical, typically Italian, which brought Detroiters cheering to their feet...