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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coquette (United Artists). In this dialog adaptation of an immensely successful stage play, Mary Pickford was faced with certain difficulties. The girl in the play is 18. Mary Pickford is known to be 36 and generally believed to be 39. The girl in-the play, emotionally mature, is a-passionate, complex personality. Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Fifty years ago the King-Emperor was a small and mischievous midshipman, known as "Sprats"* to the ship's company aboard Her Majesty's Ironclad Bac chante. The coxswain of the captain's gig was rollicking Bill King, who wore a big straw hat with ribbons down the back and was a great favorite with the middies. Last week rollicking Bill the sailor, now a little old gentleman of 75, stumped up the gravel drive of Craigwell House, Bognor, to call on King George, with worn logbook in his arms. His Majesty was delighted. For 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sprats and the Coxswain | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...shreds of learning which the cases have obscured. To call such a book a casebook is an egregious misnomer, and with it as the basis of instruction the "system" under which the course is conducted might be more aptly termed the "case, note and extract system." The well known ability of the legal scholar who compiled this strange work serves only to accentuate how insuperable are the difficulties in the way of the satisfactory adaptation of the case method to Property 1. As to the course on contracts the casebook aided by an excellent treatise, and when expounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plaintiff | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

...Hanford, dean of Harvard College, stated last night that the name of Dean Nichol's successor would not be made known until the end of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN NICHOLS TO RESIGN NEXT FALL | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...programs are being edited this year by B. C. Sigal 2L, and will contain articles dealing with Disraeli the man, as well as with the play and its well-known author. P. W. Winer 3L, who is stage manager, was formerly with G. P. Baker's famous 47 Workshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETIES TO PRESENT FOUR-ACT PLAY | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

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