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...such diverse company as that of the late great Henry Irving and the late great Adam Forepaugh's Circus. He served with a Pennsylvania regiment in the Spanish War, with Canadian troops in the World War. His Broadway engagements have included Going Up, Little Old New York, The Hottentot, Six-Cylinder Love, Jonesy. Broken Dishes gives him his 878th role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks the popular sentimentality. Worst shot: Rod La Rocque as the diplomat in a golf sweater which might better have been used to flag an airplane. The Hottentot (Warner Vitaphone). The Hottentot is a terrifying racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs a rider in the coming steeplechase. From California comes Edward Everett Horton to visit. He loves the daughter of the house, Patsy Ruth Miller, who can love only horsey men. Timid, sedentary, Horton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Column 1, page 16. "Wildebeest" is good Boer Dutch for the South African antelope, which the Hottentots called the "gnu," the spelling being as nearly as possible the English equivalent of the Hottentot nasal sound, and which name the Cape English accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...bathroom instead of in a glass tub before a mixed audience is not an infringement of the freedom of bathing; and my advice respecting the proposed lecture of Mrs. Russell no more affects the liberalism of the University of Wisconsin or its loyalty to free speech than the Hottentot alphabet-if there is one-affects the selling price of Wisconsin cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Take a Bath | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Folk Ways | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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