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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To William Randolph Hearst, 64, publisher, twin grandchildren, a boy and a girl; in San Francisco. Their father, George Hearst, is publisher of the San Francisco Examiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith. In the course of his anguished gropings he commits a brutal murder, falls in love with a gentle girl. Phoenix Film Co. of Germany has telescoped the story onto the screen with sincerity enough to preserve its hulk but without art enough to point its outlines. Ten Modern Commandments (Esther Ralston). Among modern young women, it appears, the ten modern commandments are all one: "Get your man." That much Kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1927 | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...this description is The Mallets. The Mallets are four single ladies?Caroline, Sophia, Rose, and Henrietta. The first three are of the older generation, Rose being our heroine. She discovers her love for Hero Francis Sales only after he has married another girl. When Mrs. Sales becomes an invalid after a hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sturdy Muffin | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Eager RUSTLE OF SPRING- Clare Cameron-Doran ($2). When Clare Cameron was a little girl she lived, like her contemporary, Author Thomas Burke, in the slums of London. Her parents were stodgy, honest, bourgeois, with numerous aunts and cousins. Clare grew up with a longing for "finer things." This document of her callow years is marred by an overdose of sentimental estheticism and a dismaying lack of humor. She seems a little too sure that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eager | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...horse, Tony, do their stuff once again, this time for the reluctant heart of a circus queen. Amongst other adventures possible in the woolly West, they break jail, lasso the girl off the back of a runaway elephant, write "I love you" into a wooden fence with bullets. The sheepish grin, buoyant acrobatics, baffled villain are on hand as usual. All in all, a good Tom Mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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