Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counterblast came quickly: "Not one of the Churches referred to has any work in Turkey The Congregational Church, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and Near East Colleges are the only organizations in this field. . . . All assertions in body of statement are so misleading and misconstrued that we cannot let them go unchallenged in view ot prominence of men involved. Legitimate American interests are protected by treaty, and moral obligations can be discharged more effectively by America after diplomatic relations are resumed Those that signed this statement were important representatives ot these bodies: Cleveland E. Dodge, John...
Laboratory Theatre. East 58th St.--The acting company of the group gives its best performance in this gay comedy of Shakespeare, but the performances of "The Sea Woman's Cloak" and "The Scarlet Letter" are also worthy of high praise. The acting, as a whole, is the nearest thing to Moscow Art--which means theatre art--that we have in this country. (With the possible exception of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists...
...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...Loew, President of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation; Jesse Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players; Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation; Cecil B. DeMille, of the Cecil B. DeMille Productions; Sidney R. Kent, General Manager of Famous Players; and A. H. Glannini, President of the East River National Bank of New York...