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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness and the impetuosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier-mâché; their thirst, however, is real, their momentary, flaring hatreds, their gestures toward heroism, renunciation, their final acceptance of themselves, all these are real, surviving buoyantly the inadequacies of mechanics. Director Joe May, Actor Lars Hanson, maintain the fact, recently put to question by shoddy productions, that Hollywood may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Ellison '28, g., F. A. Pickard '29, p: H. M. Hartnett '30, cp. R. I. Hatch '28, Id., S. P. Park '29, 2d., O. F. Hatch '28, 3d., C. D. McQuaid '28, c. Drien 3a: Glenn, fa. Captain J. R. Lane '28 la: A. M. Murphy '29, ch, Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM DOWNS SPRINGFIELD GROUP 6 TO 5 | 5/17/1928 | See Source »

Died. Emile Mayrisch, president of the European steel trust, known as the Luxemburg Cartel (TIME, Dec. 5); in an automobile accident, near Châlons-sur-Marne, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...matter what may be the evasions and silences of party platforms, no candidate for high office will be permitted to shelter himself behind the papier-māché breastwork of law enforcement. He will have to stand up and declare whether he is for the Federal Union established by the Constitution or against it; whether he is for the forbidden and abhorrent 18th Amendment, which has been forced into the Constitution, or against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Borah v. Butler | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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