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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carli in Rome's Impero: "Perhaps past conditions approached those shown . . . but in Mussolini's Italy certainly nothing of that nature exists. Gypsies, underworld characters, prostitution, cheating, misery, vice, overdressed peasants, gamin life, people in rags, filthiness, superstition, thuggery, human landscapes immersed in endless fog-even the classic sun of Italy was obliterated by the Fox directors. Can you imagine an Italian seascape perpetually steeped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinema | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally classic to remark about the dancing of Miss Moss. But, as the foreman of the pressroom, has just reminded me. I am not, at present, writing for "The Atlantic Monthly," and I shall have to postpone a record of my enjoyment of Miss Moss's iridescent and bubble dancing until some time...

Author: By Percy Hammond, | Title: THE THEATERS | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...game of the current season. Simultaneously a crippled Yale team will tackle the roaring Princeton Tiger in its Jungletown den, and these two contests will occupy a large part of the attention of the football world; for they will shed the final ray of light on next week's classic in the Yale Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANGEROUS HOLY CROSS ELEVEN TO INVADE STADIUM | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

...American Opera Company comes to Boston on November 26, at the Colonial Theatre, for a second season of classic opera in English. Under the auspices of the Massachusetts Association for the Promotion of the American Opera Company, of which Edward Burlingame Hill '94 of Harvard University is honorary chairman, this company is working toward a many-sided ideal, the popularization of English opera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Opera Company Will Start Its Second Season in Boston This Month--Aim is to Popularize Opera in English | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...gridiron classic, E. H. Kendall '02, who was absent when the above picture was taken, and Reid led the Crimson attack, both piercing the opposing forward wall for two touchdowns. Dribblee was the other member of the Harvard machine who crossed the last cadet white line. Cochrane and Haughton, whose punting was a feature of the contest, brought the total score to 28 with two and one points-after-touchdown apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard "Head Coaches" Eleven of 1898 Downed West Point 28 to 0 | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

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