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...Popular Citizens" William Ackerman (Meridian, Miss.), Ralph Jonas (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Lucius N. Littauer (Gloversville, N. Y.) ; Public Officials Esther Andrews (Brookline, Mass.), William Freidman (Dade City, Fla.), Leon Schwartz (Mobile, Ala.), Alvin A. Wolff (St. Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACKS: Jews Who's Who | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Spotlight. Herein a little U. S. blonde, Lizzie Stokes, is transformed into dark and dangerous Russian actress, Olga Rostova, thus allowing Esther Ralston to prove that she can be quite as intriguing under a black wig as under her own shingled gold. The plot moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without art enough to point its outlines. Ten Modern Commandments (Esther Ralston). Among modern young women, it appears, the ten modern commandments are all one: "Get your man." That much Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston) accomplishes by marrying Tod Gilbert (Neil Hamilton), who has come all the way from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...Malich, Chairman, Miss Agnes Locke; M. W. Hatch, Miss Lula Brown; A. A. Laun, Jr., Miss Sue Burgess; J. D. Leekley, Miss Marjorie Mayer; W. P. Locke, Miss Esther Bohn; A. W. Williams, Miss Esther Bohn; W. V. A. Coombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNOUNCE BOX LIST FOR SENIOR SPREAD | 6/16/1927 | See Source »

...knowledge of things past and contemporary was admirable, his capacity for facile applause is much less so. The reader suspects that he had so many tastes that at bottom he had none at all. The two places where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together...

Author: By J. C. F. ., | Title: THE MAIN STREAM. By Stuart Sherman. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1926. $2.50. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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