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...Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins to get the better of him. He evidently enjoys his part best of all in the final scene of confession in the park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...railroad juggler usually has the Interstate Commerce Commission shrieking "Drop it! Drop it!" from the front row. So occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company; the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fragments Swept | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Butt-Letter | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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