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...Russia's greatest queen, was crazy cruel with power. Destroying the love of his people at home and the power of Russia abroad, he dug his own grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...
During the past season the 1928 football leader alternated at halfback and quarterback, proving himself a star in the lateral pass plays in which his fleetness of foot and a sure pair of hands stood him in good stead...
...Pennsylvania to come and address it on the subject of state-appointed coal-&-iron police. Governor Fisher declined. It was unfortunate for Governor Fisher that he had to decline because that gave one-time (1917-21) Governor Gifford Pinchot a chance to dwell on the subject in his stead. Mr. Pinchot is no political friend of his fellow-Republican, Governor Fisher...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
...Study to be quiet" was Izaak Walton's grand old fishing axion, and if there was ever a disciple of this school, the President is such a one. In that study he has perfected himself, and his competence has stood him in good stead, as much in dodging the lures of his baiters as in filling each day the larder of the White House in South Dakota...