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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Immediately after the selection of the cast and chorus in the latter part of this week, the annual musical production of the Pi Eta Club will go into rehearsal for presentation in the middle of January. Written as usual by undergraduates, the comedy will play three performances in Cambridge and then go on short tours in the neighborhood of Boston...
...Shoot the Works" is the present title of the book written by R. H. Booth '27 and D. S. Gibbs '27. Laid in the open spaces of the west, the story is a broad satire on the western melodrama that has flooded the country on the stage and between the covers of novels for a number of year past. It is possible that the name of the play may be changed, but no further alterations are expected in the libretto...
Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
...York Herald, Tribune expanded into an eight-column feature story last week a 16-line "message to America" signed by Mussolini. The "message" was inconsequential, but the paper on which it was written was significant. At the top is printed the bold letterhead: IL CAPO DEL GOVERNO (Head of the Government). Along the left margin is printed: "CARTA ITALIAN A DI PASTA E CELLULOSA DI PAGLIA PRODOTTA ESCLUS-IVAMENTE CON MATERIE PRIME NAZIONALI." ("Italian paper of paste and cellulose of straw, produced exclusively with national raw materials...
Died. Aimée Dostoievsky, 56, daughter of Feodor Dostoievsky; in Bolzano, Italy; of tuberculosis. She had written a penetrating sutdy of her novelist father, whose death in 1881 was not recorded in the Occidental press, to which he was then unkown...