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Veils. This is a play about twin sisters. One of them began her career in a convent and then, troubled and restless, sought the world. The other, a criminal woman, deserted the world after an erratic career and became entirely lulled by the soft silences of the nunnery. The play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

II. King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Little Emperor | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

The Heart of a Clown, as every literate person knows, is breaking behind his smile. In this picture, a warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

THE IMMORTAL NINON?Cecil Austin ?Brentano's ($3.50). Ninon de Lencloslos is now a half forgotten name. Unlike many women of less innate genius, she caused no kingdoms to change hands, married no prince, inspired no desperate armies to an improbable triumph. Her career was merely that of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immoral Ninon | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

A Hero for a Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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