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...statement has terrible implications. Not even under the Tsar was the death penalty imposed for belonging to this or the other party. There must be some mistake. How do you account for the fact that there are Communists in the Polish parliament if merely being a Communist is punishable by death? ... If I get no response from you I shall get the cold facts somehow. IRWINE E. GORDON Cleveland, Ohio
...Benedict XV in 1914, Pius XI in 1922); Papal legate to Eucharistic Congresses at London in 1908, at Montreal in 1910 (after which he toured the U. S., was the guest of President Taft); on many occasions a Papal representative, envoy, nuncio, or internuncio (among them: coronation of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in 1881, at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee); great & good friend of the U. S. (said he: "America is a dollar nation, but it is not dollar-mad? it is the future stronghold of the Church"); of uremic poisoning and nephritis after being in poor health since...
When the revolution swept away the Tsar and the past, Futurist Mayakovsky appeared triumphant at Leon Trotsky's right hand. Like Rudyard Kipling, with whom Russians compare him, Vladimir Mayakovsky was at his best as a war poet. More than six feet tall, hairy-chested, huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight...
...Moon (Warner). Apparently harmless and unoriginal, no more than an old-fashioned "western" elaborated with a theme song, technicolor and a comedian cast in a serious role as an amorous bandit, this picture is important for being a direct violation of the Code of Cinemorality proclaimed last week by Tsar Will Hays. One of the principal articles of the Hays code was directed against the cinematic practice of glorifying criminals. In Under a Texas Moon a scapegrace who steals the property of decent people, lies to women, makes love irresponsibly and carries a pistol, is shown succeeding in life...
Sympathetic with the revolutionists but not an active revolutionist himself, Author Gorki has written not propaganda but a chronicle of the Russian intellectuals. The scene is laid in Russia of some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin is a pale, near-sighted youth, long on brains, short on emotions, whose inamorata says to him: "You're slippery. . . . And you have no words which are dear to you." Clim is a precocious but unattractive child, becomes a clever but unattractive young man. He goes to the university...