Foreign News: Moscow's Harvard Man

A famed U. S. citizen buried in Moscow's Red Square is Communist John Reed, Harvard 1910 (Socialist Heywood Broun's class). Lustily bellowing last week in the former Moscow Imperial Opera House, a Soviet cast rehearsed John Reed, a new opera freely biographical, highly revolutionary. In the cast sang John Reed's widow Authoress Louise Bryant, originally a Miss Moen.

The new opera does not cover Hero Reed's early career as Red reporter,

Provincetown player, U. S. correspondent with Pancho Villa, Wartime pacifist (expelled from the Harvard Club of New York...

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