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...What digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron of his harlot sweetheart. He successfully disposes of the corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb, a hip, an eyebrow, drilled by Reinhardt, can beggar the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement because he too has known Shirley and David's "green forest," and be cause Franklin Challoner's daughter is not the kind of person who understands "green forests." When Tony was kind to a harlot, Frank lin Challoner's daughter felt insulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Lulu Belle-Lenore Ulric in chocolate grease paint as a high-stepping Harlem-to-Paris harlot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: List | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...play that dealt realistically with the pastimes of a harlot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Arraigment | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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