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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons had their hair died. He denied that the use of cosmetics was vanity, and said that such use contributed to the highest civilization. He said Rome was at the height of her civilization when she used cosmetics more than we do today, and that in the dark ages cosmetics were little used." --Boston Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eadgar, Aethelwold, Aelfrida | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...defeats to alibi. The Shelton adherents slapped thighs, exchanged felicitations over the destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger, fingers-crossed, rabbit-footed, was away when the dynamiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dodging Dynamiters | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Strawberry Blonde is another play flung by Martin Brown to the Great White Way (others current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...like all vicarious enjoyment, the common delight in the Equator is nothing more than a set of illusions. The "summer isles of Eden laying in dark purple spheres of sea" are, and embody much more, than grass skirts and ukeleles. Today, in his lecture in Economics 10b. at 9 o'clock in Widener U, Professor Usher will speak of the offstage tropics, under the title of "Modern Tropical Colonization; Its Purposes. Methods, and Ethical Concepts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

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