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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomacy is a game that more than ministers play at, if the exposition of its intricacies in "The Command To Love", now at the Plymouth theatre, is to be believed. Indeed, the fate of a treaty between France and Spain is seen to depend on the success Gaston, the French military attache has in his attentions to Manuela, the wife of the Spanish war minister, who is its chief opponent. The first act sees him committed to this amourous campaign in the name of patriotism; the second carries it on hilariously to the verge of a successful conclusion, and needless...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

...comedy that witnesses a complete victory of manner over matter, "The Command To Love" provides a pleasant evening's entertainment with a minimum of mental effort...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

...Royal and Imperial command that you [German soldiers] ... exterminate first the treacherous English, walk over General French's contemptible little army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ponsonby's Report | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...very principle here implied would seem to be one of the strongest signs of health in Harvard at present. It is undoubtedly due to its presence and influence that a member of the faculty has been able so to criticize his university from within its very walls and command attention not wholly condemnatory. Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Health | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

Frequently, Herald reporters would be called to Paris and then refused an audience with Bennett or sent home or told to go to the ends of the earth. The greatest news story of the century grew out of Bennett's command in 1869 to Henry Morton Stanley: "Go and find Livingstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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