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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the ability of both for Love Is Like That tries to impose heroics of romanticism upon comedy of manners, a process automatically self-canceling. What is left are attractive scenery, one or two bits of good acting, a few, isolated, clever lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone), silky-suave Grand Duke in exile, is tumbled into Manhattan's gaucherie, faced with the dilemma of marrying a bloated divorcee of means or engaging in menial service for a livelihood. In a last act silhouette, he is represented donning his tall high hat, preparatory to sitting elegantly upon the dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is the author of a number of series of cartoons, among the best known being "Ain't it a Grand and Glorious Feelin'?", "When a Feller Needs a Friend." "Someone is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life", "Mr. and Mrs.", and "Real Folks at Home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTOONIST MUST HAVE SYMPATHETIC EYE AND MIND, DECLARES BRIGGS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...William H. Felton of Cartersville, Ga., is the type of woman to whom people are always giving laudatory titles-"the outstanding woman of the South," "Georgia's Grand Old Lady," "Good Mother Felton," "Georgia's Oldtime Peach." And who can say that Mrs. Felton does not deserve them? It is true that sh? sat in the U. S. Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Felton v. Bankers | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Court, unmoved, proceeded with the taking of testimony tending to prove that Tito Zaniboni had seven accomplices, one of them Gen eral Luigi Capello, and all subsidized by the Grand Orient Lodge of Italian Freemasonry, which Il Duce regards as the most pernicious force opposing Fascismo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caged Bravo | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...newsgatherer interviewed a onetime passenger of Mr. Tucker's. Said she: "Roy was just grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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