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...sense of the theatric saves the play from the Elinor Glyn class. But it is like spoiling a good bedroom farce with too much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: A New Play | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

Three Weeks. The producers have done much better by Mrs. Glyn than she has deserved. They have not only featured the tiger skin on which the Queen (Aileen Pringle) does her notorious vamping of the innocent young man (Conrad Nagel), but, they have added a seductive bower of roses for good measure. Abraham Lincoln summed up this sort of product when he said of a book of poems: "For the kind of person who likes this kind of thing, this is the kind of thing that he will like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 7, 1924 | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...Take the course Mov. 1, 'Twentieth Century Screenalities'. Elinor Glyn, Anthony Hope, Ibanez, Valentino. Twenty-five cents to a dollar a course (depending upon your place in the seating list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEWER KNOWLEDGE | 10/14/1922 | See Source »

Oxford College, Keble College, March 10. - 100 yards, L. Holland, 11 2/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, E. W. Sear, 19 3/5 sec.; wide jump, C. C. Atkinson, 19 ft. 3 1/2 in.; 200 yards, C. L. sanctuary, 22 sec.; mile handicap, F. W. Glyn (130 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

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