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Parisian hooligans made discourteous signs, insulting sounds last week, as many a Teuton spread before him Die Neue Pariser Zeitung. Skeptics concluded that the dove of peace has hatched naught more promising than this: the first German newspaper to resume publication in Paris since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Portent Hatched | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama of a later period, and finally the song-and-dance motive was entirely gone from Greek poetry in its decadent stage. The chorus sang of the things which touch the deepest chord in the human soul,--dove, strife, death, and immortality. The natural expression of such thoughts was song and motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE MOLPE" IS TOPIC OF SECOND MURRAY TALK | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...Marriage Clause (Francis X. Bushman, Billie Dove). Francis X. Bushman returns as the stage director who develops a raw girl (Billie Dove) into a great actress. He loses his position because the achievement has made his continued direction superfluous. Later it is revealed that he is quite necessary after all. The temperamental star can act only when she fancies her former teacher is present. The film has some good moments, but it seems woefully stupid to characterize the hero as the hypnotic control over an erotic heroine instead of the vital factor in her art. Warner Oland is back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

Centers: Bigelow, Brown, Dove, McCiellan and Willard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radical Shakeups Effected in Starting Crimson Lineup | 10/5/1926 | See Source »

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