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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigaret girl had just given her first yawn. The blonde from Showboat was explaining for the third time why her girl-friend could not come. The lawyer from an Ohio town was about to order more White Rock water "or sumpthing" The Butte, Mont., mining man was laughing at the song, which he had never heard before, of a girl named Anna, from Butte, Montana. It was, in other words, 1 o'clock in the morning and in Manhattan's livelier night clubs the evening was just beginning to bubble. In the streets outside, crowds at corner cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Manhattan Coup | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Team No. 88?Vera Campbell, home girl; Dave Auerbach, alleged forger. Prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Team No. 37?Charlotte Kush, home girl, no salary; Dominick Laperte, brake shop hand, $30. Prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Dance. Hollywood has the fixed idea that, in every cinema about Russia, the handsome grand duke must inwardly love the down-trodden peasantry and must outwardly love one peasant girl. The upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talkies | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston computes as three to six years rather than the implied "lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Couldn't lay claim | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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