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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel of conspiracy and abortive rebellion in the Cuba of 1850. Colorfully produced, with incidents of beauty, it yet misses genuine impressiveness -partly, perhaps, because Dorothy Gish, as the Spanish dancer, le Clavel, seems pitifully miscast. She does her very best with it, but the role simply does not fit her. Richard Barthelmess, as the adventurous young American dandy-hero, is better but not wholly successful. A word should be said in favor of Jetta Gondal who portrays a scintillating Chinese vamp and Anders Randolph as a sinister Spanish captain. The direction is intelligent, the supporting cast splendid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...once produce and operate vast flocks of airplanes, dynamos, anything, in fact that might catch the fancy of her rulers. Until Lenine and his "comrades" realize that the way to progress is slow and laborious, they will have difficulty in persuading the rest of the world that they are fit leaders for Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "INVERTED INTELLIGENCE" | 4/26/1923 | See Source »

...problem, then, is not a matter of amending the law, which is necessary, but rather of making the punishment fit the crime. Probation in general is naturally intended as a warning, a preventive for the man who is threatened with the malady of collegiate dropsy. But in this case it is applied as a cure and it is naturally ineffective to make a student recover from the loss of a class which he has already out. And it is bitter out of all proportion to its purpose. A much milder does should be sufficient to insure attendance before and after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE OBJECT ALL SUBLIME" | 4/23/1923 | See Source »

...American Society of Mechanical Engineers estimates that of all the people in the United States only 40,000 are mentally and physically fit to pilot planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: New York to Peking | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Egyptians who do not support opera. " The man who hath no music in his soul is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Let no such man be trusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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