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To our mind, at least, the best bit of acting is done by the unsung supers, the Tsarist officers, in a scene at an Inn. The princess, mistaken for a peasant girl has been given over, unknowingly, by her fiance, the prince, to the officers of his guard. DeMille has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/27/1926 | See Source »

The high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Still Waters | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Conducted by Fate, Kate's artist, Chris Fenno, no longer a boy, suddenly appeared as Anne's fiance and mother-panic had an unpleasant struggle with mother-revulsion. To tell the girl about a certain week in Normandy would have been to lose her. The family minister contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recompense* | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

THE LOST SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Honore Willsie Morrow- Stokes ($1.00). When homespun Lawyer Lincoln arose at Bloomington, Ill., in May, 1856, to breathe life into an inert body that some editors and politicians had created and hoped to call the Republican Party, he uttered not two score words before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Bloomington, Ill. | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Silence reigned and yet gave way to greater silence as M. Henri Robert called the 23-year-old defendant to testify. She was not put into the prisoner's dock, but sat on a special seat in the centre of the court room. She stood up, a slim, neat figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime de Charlie | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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