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from where he was frequently sent to give missions in the various Czech Parishes in America. He was not only an able and popular missionary, but also a frequent contributor to the daily “Národ” and semi-weekly “Katolík”, the Czech Catholic newspapers published in Chicago. He is the author of a very interesting Czech History called “Dějiny Čech v povídkách” (History of the Czechs in Story Form).

In 1910 he was appointed professor of Dogmatic Theology at St. Procopius Seminary, Lisle, Illinois. When in 1919 Father Procopius Neužil, then rector of St. Procopius Seminary, had been sent to Czechoslovakia as Chairman of the second Czechoslovak Mission, Father Valerian Havlovic was appointed to this office.

In 1919 he became sub-prior of St. Procopius Abbey. Two years ago the Pontifical Seminary of St. Vincent, of which he is an Alumnus, conferred on him an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.

On November sixth and thirteenth he will celebrate his fortieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood with the Rt. Rev. Valentine Kohlbeck. The event will take place in Lisle as well as in Chicago. He has the good wishes of all the Czechs in America, but particularly of those young men whom he has taught at St. Procopius during the last seventeen years.

When a young man gets to college the first thing he wants to do is to take it apart.

The October issue of the Theater Arts Monthly contains several beautiful designs used at the National Theater in Prague by H. K. Hilar, the director, who has recently revived Hamlet in a modern mood. The Theater Arts writes: “The National Theater in Prague is the most active of current European playhouses. Dr. Hilar, with J. Hoffman, the designer, had sought a simple and suggestive means of restating tragedy for modern audiences. Dr. Hilar, it will be remembered, is with Jaroslav Kvapil, his rival, the outstanding figure of the Czech stage. Kvapil’s is the gentler talent; he is noted for his sincerity as well as for the pleasing beauty of his production. Dr. Hilar, on the other hand, is a vehement radical, whose work has a strident power. It is he who has done much to make O’Neill at home in Prague, even while busy with plays by the Čapek brothers, and an endless list of Czech plays and classics, each of which as been given a vivid and intensified production in his theater.”