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...play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more. You got to change crops sometime." As in Miracle at Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic...
Henry B. Sawyer, Jr. '36, baseball manager and former chairman of the Entertainment Committee, was head usher. Assisting him as ushers were John L. Clark '36, Richard S. Keene '38, Arthur Notman, Jr. '37, Robert W. Snyder '38, Archer P. W. Trench '37, and Cyrus C. Wells...
Stronger than the usual J.V. group, the Junior Varsity will meet with little trouble from the Bostonians. Archer Trench, Ham Richards, and Duane Whitney are all players of Varsity calibre...
...telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat whence he radioed his resignation. He was confined in the marine barracks. More dangerous, Estigarribia and Presidential Candidate Luis Riart were arrested. Next afternoon Colonel Franco stepped out of an Argentine plane at Asunción, made himself Provisional President...
...Trench crater...