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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FUNNY The Circus (Charles Chaplin), The Gaucho (Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez), A Girl in Every Port (Louise Brooks), Speedy (Harold Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinemasterpieces | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Edna May Wilbur, schoolteacher, daughter of Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, was taking a hike with a girl companion in Yosemite Valley, California. They were having a good time, throwing snowballs and leaping down a rocky trail, until they found themselves on a ledge from which it was impossible to descend and dangerous to retrace their trail up the valley. It was midnight before a party of five rangers came to their rescue, hauled them up 100 feet with ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Died. Georgia O'Ramey, 41, musical comedy funnywoman, (The Velvet Lady, No No Nanette etc.); two hours before the opening performance of Nize Girl, in which she had a leading role; of heart disease ; in New Haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-A chorus girl being double-cross-examined in a courtroom (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However ridiculous was this solemn echo of an ancient and silly sermon in melodrama, it was impossible not to realize that plays even more foolish have been played this very season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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