A play, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, premiered at the Ambassador Theater on Broadway, which is remarkable in more ways than one, one being that this was well before the collapse in the economy that is so often figured into the novel, but which the novel anticipated as a moral collapse.
The incite of the novel, accordingly, can hardly be appreciated today, and indeed should be reread today, given the current times.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
The Great Gatsby.
Representatives of the governments of the UK and France, which nearly went to war in 1918/1919 over the fate of Syria, signed a treaty of friendship on behalf of the British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. Notably, the native populations for both areas had utterly no desire that either European power be there.
Four members of the illegal Black Reichswehr were sentenced to death for politically motivated murders in Germany.
A banquet was held at the Hotel Astor to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the National League.
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