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Show Where the.Dead Heads Come In. The Roman "newspapers protest against the revival of the Drama of the Dead, which was again celebrated this year upon the Campo Santo on All Souls' Day. This custom had been discontinued for fifteen years ever since the nationalization nationaliza-tion of the capital of Italy. Some pious persqps thought that it would be a pious deed to restore this spectacle. Skulls, bones, and entire skeletons were collected from rifled graves, and a piece called "The Vision of Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones" was exhibited . The real impiety im-piety of this odd union of religion and stage was made the more manifest by the loudly expressed suspicion of some naturally natur-ally indignant persons that the remains of their kinsfolk had been employed, among others, for the theatrical representation. |