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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
...rebels, Catholic priests were permitted to resume the public celebration of the mass for the first time since General Calles (then President) commenced to enforce the anti-Catholic laws (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926). In Nogales, Sonora, Father Jose Pablos grimly said: "It is a fight for life! Either this present movement must triumph or we [Catholics] must once more give up our liberty...
...investigate this and other problems. The culmination of the rights-for-Presbyterian-women movement came last week at the General Council in Philadelphia. Twelve men voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long...
...Loew. Denied Nicholas M. Schenck, cinemagnate, President of Loew's, Inc. last January: "There has never been negotiation with Fox or anyone else, either corporation or individual, looking towards the sale of Loew's, Inc., or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Rumor, last week, busied itself with the future of big Oilman Robert W. Stewart. He might, thought Rumor, merge brains, experience and personality with Horse & Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, either in the Sinclair Oil Co. or in a to-be-constructed oil combination. Colonel Stewart's future is discussable because his potent past was abruptly closed last week at Whiting, Indiana. There, in a public building, he presided with great cheer at the annual stockholders meeting of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, of which he was Chairman. Profits for 1928, said he, were $83,000,000, a fifty million...