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...Habima Players of Moscow offer the same play in Hebrew. Their production is notable for its frank theatricality. Not the slightest regard is paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before impressionistic scenery. As artists detached from the world on the other side of the footlights, they breathe unmistakable intensity into their roles. Anna Rovina, who plays Leah, the body haunted by the restless spirit of her dead lover, is heralded as one of the world's greatest actresses. In gesture...
...ancient Vatican at Rome, but the browbeating Vatican which the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...
...week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would not confess his name but was proved to have shot and killed from the desert A. G. Elliott, air mechanician for famed British flying ace Sir Alan ("England-to-Australia-and-Return") Cobham (TIME...
With Bernard McFadden and "I Confess" forging rapidly into the financial leadership of Periodical Row, the "quality magazines", as Leon Whipple describes them in Survey Graphic, have been forced to reorganize and to adopt new taedes. The revolution has been on the whole successful from every point of view; the Atlantic Monthe Harper's and Scribner's have emerged from the fray with larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness...
...applicants. The phrase "a free country" appears to have been lost in the jumble of distorted democracy. To allow radicals to enter the United States is not necessarily a proclamation of national radicalism; but not to allow them, especially when their menace is at most only potential, is to confess narrowness and bigotry...