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...prison: his characters, actual prisoners of war housed in a church, are hardly less prisoners of self-of their own fears, guilts, aggressions. Even among themselves there is dissension: the play has hardly begun before hot-tempered Private David King is at cynical Private Peter Abie's throat. Then the men settle down for the night, and each in succession has a Biblical dream that reveals his secret self and his ideas of his comrades...
James Barton, remembered by many audiences for his 2,000 performances as Jeeter Lester in "Tobacco Road," is cast as the aging speculator. Although he had some trouble with his throat on opening night, he carried off his part well, singing ballads in the manner of the late Walter Huston and also coming through with an amusing buck and wing...
After a routine check up of the room, the police sent the man to the morgue where a medico-legal examiner found two small holes in his neck, below the necktie. They didn't go deep, but in the throat muscles, the examiner found signs of hemorrhage. The findings seemed to indicate death by strangulation...
...said that, provoked by "improper advances," he had seized the man by the throat and tightened the tie until the man was unconscious. He then tied the ends around his victim's neck and, before leaving, made a stab at the unconscious man's throat with a pair of scissors. He freely admitted his guilt...
Last spring, when the Veterans' Administration cut operating expenses it cut its own throat. In answer to a Congressional demand for economy, the Boston Veterans Bureau chose to relieve half the personnel in the registration department...