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Last month in Omaha the Community Playhouse began rehearsing a play called Brigham Young, with 17 amateur actresses playing Brigham's wives. The plot unhistorically showed other Mormon men trading wives. Word of the rehearsals soon reached the potent Latter-Day Saints Church in Salt Lake City. The Church's president is Heber J. Grant, a director of Union Pacific Railroad. Last week onetime Ambassador to Mexico Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. became President Grant's Second Counselor and third ranking Mormon. One of the Council of Twelve Apostles is onetime Senator Reed Smoot. Church President Grant told Union Pacific Railroad President Carl Raymond Gray about the slanderous play. Mr. Gray called in a lawyer and the Playhouse board of directors. Next day Brigham Young had only three wives. Last week Omaha audiences saw a Brigham Young that wavered between the religious and the farcical. They liked little about it beyond Iowa Artist Grant Wood's settings, done out of friendship for the Play's Author-Director Bernard Szold.

Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin Walsh, relict of U. S. Attorney General-designate Thomas James Walsh (TIME, March 13), began to accept invitations in Washington, D. C. Of her late husband she said, "For two years he had been writing me every day of his life. I knew all his feelings, all his ambitions. In Cuba, I was living the life of Washington. Now I wish to experience for myself these things I have learned through him."

Last autumn Juan Terry Trippe, a skilled flyer since the War and founder-president in 1927 of 26,652-mi. Pan American Airways, took out a private pilot's license (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week Primo Camera was awarded the heavyweight championship of Italy. And Roscoe Pound, since 1916 dean of the Harvard Law School, was last week admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

In Athens, Samuel Insull heard about a Macedonian lignite (brown coal) mine that was up for lease. He said he would like to put in a bid if he could find some capital. He went to Greek bankers but they said they could not "participate in new ventures at this time." He wrote to aging Sir Basil Zaharoff on the Riviera. Zaharoff turned him down. Last week the time for bidding on the lignite mine was up. Anxious to accommodate so famed a businessman, Minister of National Economy Vourloumis gave Mr. Insull another month to find capital, make an offer.

The will of the late British Writer John Galsworthy left an estate of -L-88,000 ($300,000) to his relict.* After her death the remainder will go to five nephews & nieces.

In the Arizona State Prison at Florence, Winnie Ruth Judd, who dismembered two women friends and shipped them to Los Angeles in trunks, tried to die by swallowing a double-edged safety razor blade. One of the matrons who guard her night & day screamed for help. She and a guard grappled with Mrs. Judd, choked her to prevent the blade from going down her throat. Finally she fell limp and spat out the blade. Sobbed she, "I want to kill myself. I won't hang!" The State Pardon Board had just refused a 60-day postponement of her sentence to hang on April 21.

From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries."

Sequel

To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news:

P:To the civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence--suspension from his pulpit for one year--was upheld.

P:To the indictment of Impostor Harry F.("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson for perjury and illegal entry into the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 2, 9, 23) : a sentence of 90 days in jail and three years on probation; in Manhattan Federal Court.

* Other writers' estates: Victor Hugo, $1,500,000; Stanley Weyman, $500,000; Charles Dickens, $400,000; George Moore, $250,000; Arnold Bennett, $500,000. Edgar Wallace, whose income was tremendous, left $230,000 in debts to his wife who died last week (see p. 36).

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