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Philip Barry wrote Paris Bound, a light cocktail of adultery and wit; like that fine play, Holiday begins frivolously. The situation: a girl, Julia Seton, introduces to her glum father, her charming sister and her drunken brother, the clever, adventurous and successful young man whom she wishes to marry. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

The Cyclone Lover. One is compelled to suppose that the U. S. embodiment of the ideal lover is a gawky youth, timid and smirking, fond of stupid jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

The gauche little play needed no such apologetic introduction. In it was unfolded the story of a favorite daughter of Idaho, who, after attending an Eastern college, returned to the potato dad hills of her native state, followed by her fiance. Local entanglements of politics and domesticity prevented her immediate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

The Woman Tempted. Vera Countess Cathcart, who was ousted from the U. S. by the Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is...

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

Three days later hopeful Maiden Devi Sharmista journeyed to Barwaha, a seat of the semi-royal family of her fiance. There she was welcomed by a retinue of swarthy nobles riding upon elephants. Deep and throbbing came the pulse of heavy drums.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stars, Moon, Sun | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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