Word: latest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest turnover of comeliness, Fanny Brice is characteristically diverting in several skits, and Clyde Cook, cinema buffoon and onetime Hippodrome favorite, falls about sedulously until he cracks, laughs and nearly breaks his neck. There is a new Victor Herbert ballet, and a Ben Ali Haggin tableau, lustrous and well poised, called The Duel for the sake of a change. But the underlying fabric is of the customary silks and satins...
...latest paper on the subject (Science, Feb. 29, 1924) Dr. Miller says that Bios II has been "fractionated," so that there are three separate constituents...
...Scaramouche", half a million copies of his books have been sold: As witness of his great popularity Houghton Mifflin Company are to issue a uniform collected edition of his works in thirteen volumes of short stories based on historical themes, and two important works of history. Sabatini's latest book, "Mistress Wilding", is a colorful romance of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. A review of this new Sabatini novel will, we hope, appear in the CRIMSON Book shelf shortly...
...Century Co. received recently a cable from the English publisher of Gilbert Frankau's latest novel, "Gerald Cranston's Lady" (published here on Febbruary 20), announcing that 40,000 copies had been sold--this number establishing a record average of over a thousand copies a day. Mr. Frankau is said to move up, by what can only be described as an outburst of popular favor, to the very top of the small list of a half-dozen writers of best-sellers in Great Britain...
...Mussolini has striven in vain, and now rumors have been quieted by the news that there is, after all, to be no change in Vatican-Quirinal relations, and that Pope Pius I apparently feels that the Holy, Roman and Apostolic Church is an institution of greater permanency than the latest condottore who has laid strong hands on the Eternal City...