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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Character. Baron von Maltzan, beside being one of the youngest Germans to attain ambassadorial rank, was also one of Germany's ablest diplomats. In personal appearance he was a typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Death of von Maltzan | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Attacking the character of Blasco Ibaņez, the Spanish Ambassador told how the novelist had started a Republican newspaper at Valencia; how it had proved a failure; how, to save himself from bankruptcy, he had turned the newspaper over to his employes without informing them of the true state of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

But for the acting of the star, the evening would have been unimpressive. Miss Cornell again plays the part of an untraditional heroine; a faithless woman; harder, colder this time than her Iris March of The Green Hat. She is one of the few great players in the land who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

ALFRED E. SMITH-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3). "Al Smith's face is always reddish. In the heat of a vehement address it becomes crimson. He sweats ... he is all that could be desired of a Governor, even by the most correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Al Smith | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

"The tyranny of so-called efficiency" is "The Harvard Crimson's" phrase for the red tape of the university's employment bureau, which seems to have an attack of questionnaires. One would think that some simple entries about the student looking for a job would be enough for the bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

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