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...nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details do not crop out to disrupt the atmosphere of a distant time and place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/3/1927 | See Source »

...dispute allegedly threatened to disrupt, split and irrevocably sunder the entire party. No alarm was felt, however; Rome was amused, hilarious, even enthusiastic over the daily ebullitions of the four disputants. Then the Facist fiat put an end to their fulminations. The comedy was over. Rome smiled and turned expectantly to II Duce for the next thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ousted | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Year in and year out John Fosdick's unbounded domesticity has consisted of smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits by, bored. Come a pair of Mr. Fosdick's onetime sweethearts to vamp him. For a while the sirens disrupt the family, giving Mr. & Mrs. an opportunity to realize how dear to their hearts was that old homely destitution. They make up, promising each other that "everything shall be just the same as it was before." In the end John Fosdick is seen smoking cigars over the evening newspaper while his good wife sits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Minister of Education Stefan Raditch, obstreperous leader of the Croat Opposition, called by his enemies "the political ape-clown" (TIME, Oct. 25), sought once more to disrupt the Cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch last week by a wanton flamboyance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Foul Means | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...town who has made a fortune in New York invites his boyhood friend to the city to be best man at his marriage to a Manhattan girl. But the small towner, known as "Pig Head" Ban croft, is suspicious of all folks from the city and he manages to disrupt the romance temporarily before he is convinced that virtue is not lost to New Yorkers. About this scenario Mr. Cohan has writ ten a comedy of much comic effectiveness, if of no especial dramatic merit. Robert McWade plays the South Bend grouch skillfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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