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Other members of the cast are Lois Hall as Gladys--Miss Hall was the Sphinx in "La Machine Infernale"--Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothey Yagairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...
...Second Soldier, Paul Killiam '37; Narrator, William M. Hunt 2d. '36; Anubis, George H. Edgell, Jr. '37; Creon, Richard C. Sullivan '35; Captain. Robert I McKee '37; Ghost, James W. Tower '35; Old Shepherd, Stephen Greene '37; Messenger, Glenn Morris '38. Drunken Man Harvey Huston '38. Jocasia, Jean Goodale; Sphinx, Lois Hall; Antigone, Doris Reimer; Matron, Emeline Hill...
...chief change in the script is the insertion of the Sphinx on the stage to talk with the characters. Played by a young girl, she predicts the course of the action...
...most guests the reception was chiefly important because it revealed that Dr. Otto Meissner is still firmly entrenched as "the Sphinx of the Wilhelmstrasse." This amazing German has been personal State Secretary to every head of the Fatherland since the abdication of Wilhelm II. He was a "Socialist" with President Ebert, a Nationalist with President von Hindenburg and today he seems to be a Nazi with Realmleader Hitler. When stories of German intrigue are spun one of the chief characters is always Meissner. He is supposed to have "made" half the post-War chancellors of the Reich. When Nazis broke...
...robed judges of the German Supreme Court started violently and some half rose from their chairs. Without warning the Dutch Sphinx of the Reichstag Fire Trial, ox-dumb Marinus van der Lubbe who has sat as though drugged or stupefied for weeks on end, suddenly leaped to his feet, clear-eyed and bubbling with protests which he hurled at Presiding Judge Dr. Wilhelm Bünger...