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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thunder in the Air. The ghost of a British soldier returns after ten years to twist the hearts of his parents and one-time fiancee. This spectral drama by Robins Millar, Glasgow journalist, may interest adherents of spiritualism; earthier critics may yawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...companions, astonished by his strange foreknowledge of events, come to regard him as a sort of unholy ghost. The girl whom he knows his ancestor did marry turns away from him in fear and, tragically, he finds himself falling in love with her sister. This affair is ill-fated even though the lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Ghost Parade recounts some of the perplexities which confront the British Army in India, including a cabal who dress up as spooks in order to smuggle firearms to the natives, and an unpleasant Hindu who, instead of being the villain as no one had suspected, is really Cyril Teetarn, detective. It is a venture in more than one way distressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...didn't think he'd shoot a ghost," said Spook Espinosa, pained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...whoo-oo-oo, woof, woof," moaned the ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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