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...Veil of Happiness. Sacred peacocks, fairyland gardens, a blind poet-philosopher hopelessly in love, figure in this Chinese fantasy based on a novel by war-time Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau. It was filmed in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Invasion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Mortal Fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...futile to cavil at trifles! After the first five minutes of your visit to fairyland, Iolanthe and her sisters will have captivated you completely, and you will find that you have gone back at least ten years. And inevitably you will join the ranks of those who sigh at the mention of either play and chortle "Oh, yes, the march of the Peers," or "When a coster leaves off beating up his mother...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...small bronze plate beside a doorway on upper Fifth Avenue [Manhattan], one may read the name Colgate & Co. This doorway leads to the new Colgate Salon and Showrooms, opened last spring, and to step through it is to step straight into fairyland-at least that is what those who visit it assure us. The Salon is the work of Howard Greenley, famous architect, and contains a complete display of Colgate products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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