Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Katerina. This latest addition to the programs of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre is further justification for the rediscovery of Alia Nazimova. It is more. Leonid Andreyev's play has been left behind by changing social codes but it retains a turbulent glow which shines through its drenching melancholy...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...
DAVID LAWRENCE, President of the United States Daily: "He was a great editor. His genius was coupled with an extraordinary personality. He leaves behind indelible impressions of a man never too busy to be kind to others and never too absorbed in his own taste to see the changing picture or the world around him. He helped to found a great magazine which will be a monument to his memory...
...HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature: "Briton Hadden was one of the most resourceful, energetic and original editors of the younger generation. He had a great career ahead of him and a great achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily-afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic...