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...cajoled but he survives the scandal. He even preserves the loyalty of his wife by placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren by showing them with what simple tricks a dignitary of the golden age could turn his cavalier indiscretions into a triumph of patriotism fit for Muzzey's Reader. Nonetheless, the film will interest many and bore only those who have rooted objections to sentimentalized history. Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Hundred Years Old. The happy simplicity of this play, which concerns a Spanish patriarch who arranges and enjoys his 100th birthday party, is like a benison softly spoken in the clangor and fret of Broadway. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, playwright-brothers of Madrid, might easily have drenched it in tears of sentimentality, but the best proof that their play avoids pathos is the fact that the old man does not die in the last act. Having convinced his fastidious, fortunate descendants that all the family, including Antonon, who is a truck-gardener and Gabriella, who has borne an illegitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

President of the Christian Herald Corporation is Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of President Hoover, avid Dry. To please Mr. Penney, and also because it is his own conviction. Editor High often pens editorials loudly decrying the evils of drink, lauding the benison of Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison of Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cannon's Reward | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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