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Word: edgar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear, under the joint management of Edgar Selwyn and Morris Gest, in The Living Corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...event more cheerful than many an opening night will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...quite perfectly. Its major facts were not hard to believe, though it was no doubt a revelation to many scrupulous Ford owners that they were riding about in cars made by a reincarnationist. It was interesting to remember that another, though less famed, meteoric U. S. millionaire, Oil-tycoon Edgar B. Davis, believes in reincarnation. How instructive it would be, many persons reflected, if other tycoons could be persuaded or compelled to give out accurately and truthfully their religious theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reincarnationist | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Married. Joan Burroughs, daughter of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes); to James Pierce, cinemactor of Tarzan, chosen for the part by Joan Burroughs; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...Edgar Young Mullins, Kentucky Democrat, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Reason: Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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