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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsuccessful impersonations. Noah Beery is the lascivious old sheik, and highly satisfactory as such. Evelyn Brent, who plays opposite Emil Jannings in The Last Command (TIME, Jan. 30), does well indeed as the somewhat helpless heroine. Gary Cooper is lanky and effective as the able Major Henri de Beaujolais. The sand of the desert, a by no means unimportant element, is seen to fine effect, either snapping its angry yellow veil in the windy darkness, puffing smokily into the air after an explosion, or merely lying still under the sun like a quilt of shining yellow snow...
Advertisement for Mennen's talcum powder: the statue of a small baby, squatting, pudgy and cheerful of countenance; toes curled; in marble, with pedestal de- scription...
...Vicente Blasco Ibanez, most famed living Spanish author [Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Mare Nostrum; Blood and Sand; Alfonso XIII Unmasked (banned in his own country); others] ; of bronchial pneumonia; at his villa in Menton, France, where he lived, a voluntary exile. Of Spain under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he wrote: ". . . it de-teriorates." His monarch he called "slave." In retaliation, a Spanish diplomat, the Marques de Merry del Val, explained: ". . . his loose, inaccurate style has pre-vented him . . from admission...
...South America, Spain. At their head is Dwight Parker Robinson, 58, who, as first president of the International Shipbuilding Corp., developed Hog Island ship yards during the War. Before that he was Stone & Webster's master of engineering and construction activities. And before that he earned de- grees from both Harvard (A.B.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. (duPont rayon, chemicals, explosives, toilet-ware, Fabrikoid, etc., etc.)?$41,113,968. Previous year...