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Odds-on bets on the subject of the fiery dictator's drama would probably not disappoint their backer. "Campo di Maggio," Il Duce's brain-child, is being given in Hungary as "The Hundred Days." That Mussolini's favorite hero, the Little Corporal, will hold the center of the stage is not to be doubted. The choice of subject has its advantages. If the artistic merits of the play should prove incapable of raising it above the waters of Lethe, it will at all events be kept above the waves by half a dozen lines in the bibliography of works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST NIGHT | 3/4/1931 | See Source »

TIME, I'm devoted to you, please don't disappoint me! ELISABETH MCSHERRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...terrier bitch as Lady Godiva. "Some other towns, now, may not be like St. Albans," said he meaningly, "but our girls-bless their sweet hearts-are all good girls! Not a one in the whole town would show herself in tights and false hair. So's not to disappoint anyone I just named this little dog 'Lady Godiva,' and I guess you'll admit she rode the way God made her, except I scrubbed her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P. Toms Vexed | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...more than Bancroft can handle. There are times when, as an Italian contractor trying to get into society, he is fairly funny, but his machinations to win the love of a lady of the upper classes are absurd. The ending-in which he goes without his reward-will disappoint fans waiting for an amatory fadeout. Best shot: Bancroft tying a dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...calling in sober earnest for the security and happiness of national life and for peace and friendship in international relations. Should the London Conference take this tide at its flood its labors will surely be crowned with success. The nations there represented can ill afford once more to disappoint this public demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: No Menace | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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