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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard in his way as was Captain Flagg of What Price Glory, the model hero-villain of all Park Row War fiction. Only, unfortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...whispering gallery whispered in 1922 when Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, young society girl, married Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, a man twice her age. Today no one can say that it has not been a happy marriage, that Mrs. Edge has not added a youthful zest to Washington society, that she has not brightened the lives of unhappy Congressional wives at many an otherwise dull luncheon or dinner. This January she was undoubtedly surprised and flattered to hear that she had come within a few votes of being elected president of the Congressional Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Rebuke | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Died. Lola Fisher (Mrs. Kenneth Thompson), 34, actress; in Fleetwood, Yonkers, of tuberculosis. She played in Rio Grande, Under Cover, Be Calm Camilla, Good Gracious, Annabelle; acted with William Courtney, Ethel Barrymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...HAUNTED HOUSES-Camilla Flammarion-Appleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunts* | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...Paris, Camilla Dussard gave a demonstration of "cold light." In the presence of famed members of the Academic des Sciences, he touched the wires of his 2,000-candle-power electric lamp and was no more harmed than if he had exposed his hand to the fiery spray of a holiday "sparkler." No shock nor burn resulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cold Light? | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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