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...Civic Repertory Theatre). In Denmark live contented cows. No one has been unhappy since Hamlet. Or so you feel at this playful Danish version of the proposition that life is illogical. The plot traces the transformations of a mad-ap schoolteacher into a story editor and of his wife from a married spinster into a lady right out of the silk hosiery advertisements. There is a whiff of degeneracy here and there in the proceedings but it is innocuous, like mold on cream cheese. Pale Eva LeGallienne, mistress of the Civic Repertory, has entrusted the piece to Director Egon Brecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...this year U. S. loans abroad would aggregate $12,500,000,000. To Whom. To Germany was advanced $262,135,000-more than half of the $508,000,000 pocketed by all Europe. Part of the distribution follows: To Italy went $120,000,000; Hungary, $22,500,000; Denmark, $19,000,000; Jugoslavia, $34,000,000; England and Estonia received $4,000,000 each. Canada's share was $286,000,000, and Latin America's $375,400,000. The Far East and other corners of the world received $121,340,000. Alarm. Struggling to assert industrial supremacy, Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Borrowing Trouble? | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Scandinavian Gold Cup from the boats of eight nations last week at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. The cup, donated by the Nylandska Jakt-klubbens (Finnish yacht club) was won for the U. S. last year by the yacht Lanai. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and England (with a bright scarlet sailboat) challenged. The U. S. defender Lea and all but Sweden, Norway and Finland were eliminated in preliminaries. Each then won two races; Sweden drifted through an almost airless afternoon to win a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six-Metre | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Field Marshal August von Mack-ensen, 78, reviewed at Potsdam, Germany, veterans of German wars with Denmark, Austria and France (men 77 to 93 years old), dined with them, read to them a telegram from their onetime Emperor Wilhelm II: "The glorious fruits of these wars are now unhappily destroyed by discord, and must be fought for again. Gott mit uns, WILHELM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Eagle Scouts from Wayne, Pa., were last fortnight welcomed by the acting Lord Mayor of London. Eight Sea Scouts from Chicago constitute part of the crew of the John Borden-Field Museum expedition, now collecting fauna in Arctic regions. Two Scouts from Excelsior, Minn., are officially carrying greetings to Denmark. Possibly one Scout will accompany Commander Richard E. Byrd's expedition to the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Around the World | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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