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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with a traveled gentleman, until finally she contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brooklynese | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Forbidden Hours. In a land somewhere in the Balkans perhaps, King Michael IV (Ramon Novarro) loves a prime minister's niece (Renee Adoree). He is such a good king and his love is so sincere that the people accept the girl as their queen. It might make a willy-nilly musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...education of a poor boy, U. S. Smith of the U. S. Marines plans to raise money by throwing a prize fight. But the poor boy says: "No, you mustn't do that." And so U. S. Smith knocks out his opponent, wins glory and a girl. Undistinguished cast, undistinguished action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bargee | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...being of artistic inclination and equipped with some vocal talent, by singing. After making her debut with Aphrodite in Manhattan, she joined the San Carlo Opera Company, with which she sang Siebel in Faust. Later she became the understudy for more noteworthy performers; of late, a chorus girl, a hanger on at rehearsal halls and an ofttime entertainer or hostess at night clubs, Isobel Stone was compelled to relinquish the idea of a rent-paying existence. Luckily one Gus Clark offered her his dingy and dilapidated float on which she was discovered last week in a state of great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bargee | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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