Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some men lately pictured in TIME: Sweden's Trygger, J. J. Tunney, Edwin Foster Lowry, Henry Byron Warner, Sir John Chancellor, Kentucky's Rev. Settle, Gus Orvel Nations, Felix Warburg, Crown Prince Umberto, Joseph Denis Murphy, Jimmy Johnston. Alfonso of Spain, Milwaukee's Younggreen...
...these events is marred by the introduction of a romance between the prisoner and the warden's daughter. But it would take much more than this to emasculate Mr. Flavin's play. Largely through the gruff eloquence of the high-principled warden, magnificently acted by Arthur Byron, Mr. Flavin damns the tragic system that man has developed to police the race, makes the so-called science of penology seem as hideously false as some black, antiquated alchemy. Russell Hardie conveys every horrific tremor, mental and physical, of the unfortunate youth...
...season and to conduct the major portion. But when last week his audience stood proudly to greet him and began the expected ovation, the little man quashed it with a quick bow, turned his back, tapped smartly for attention and began the business of the evening. The Overture to Byron's Manfred, the Don Quixote of Richard Strauss and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony-these comprised the Teutonic program which the Great Italian chose to deliver. And then, as if to justify his choice, he made of the flaccid Manfred a deeply despairing hero and touched the bemuddled Cervantes...
Quite accustomed to applying his able talents as an actor to such inane material as this, Henry Byron Warner has made a lot of money in talking pictures because he once went to an English public school. It was not one of the most aristocratic schools, but Henry Byron Warner fitted there all right; his father, Charles Warner, was an actor before him. After finishing with school and with the University College in London, Warner spoke and dressed as though he had been to Eton and Oxford. In the growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore...
...Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of the contributors, willing or unwilling, are Poets Whitman, Byron, Job, Swinburne, Prosaists Santayana, Nietzsche, Plato, the Huxleys, Clarence S. Darrow. The collection cannot be called exhaustive since so many other "anti-religionaries" are absent-notably Voltaire...