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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiske speaking--and working her hardest to close the dressing room door. Grim and determined, a CRIMSON reporter was blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLLIS HALL MAY BE OBJECT OF THE COMEDIENNE'S VISIT | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

Later the wife discovers her husband at close quarters with a lady from next door. Surfeited with his infidelity and his philosophy-"You have all my love, but not all my passion"-she lures the golf champion to her bedroom to expunge her love for her husband from her heart. This rash maneuver is not very convincing, but it does give pith to the advertisement which appeared last week in all Manhattan theatre programs: "What you think of this play may start an interesting discussion. Talk it out over a big plate of HORTON'S ICE CREAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...RANG THE BELL- Milward Kennedy-Crime Club ($2). The doorbell rang, and when the door was opened a corpse propped against the outside fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...dead were off to one side. The doctors were working with their sleeves up to their shoulders and were red as butchers. There were not enough stretchers. Some of the wounded were noisy but most were quiet. The wind blew the leaves in the bower over the door of the dressing station and the night was getting cold. Stretcher bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. As soon as I got to the dressing station Manera brought a medical sergeant out and he put bandages on both my legs. He said there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...Republic and Germany of the Kaisers are noted wherever they occur; in 420 pages of text there are 300 original photographs; although covering practically all Germany, Author Newman finds space for anecdotes-personal, historical, legendary. Important conclusion: Germany is one country that says "Welcome" without demanding payment at her door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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