Word: latested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sceptre which would otherwise have been his when King Ferdinand of Rumania died (TIME, Aug. 1). The reasons for his abdication may remain forever partially obscure, but it is clear that they originated in his desire to escape the responsibilities of rank and dwell inconspicuously with various ladies. The latest of these, Mme. Magda Lupescu, comely Jewess, was sharing Prince Carol's suite at the Negresco, last week...
...Latest from Paris is sold by two commercial travelers, both birdwitted. One is male, the other female. They meet on a train where the man in order to have the woman to himself cleans the observation car of passengers by referring to his recent case of the pox. Nothing happens, nothing matters beyond the fact that the salesman is Ralph Forbes, good looking, ineffectual, and the saleswoman is Norma Shearer, beautiful, wasted...
Improvisations in June. Big business men are unpopular with playwrights and U. S. big business men are unpopular with Europeans. In this, the latest addition to the Civic Repertory catalogue, a German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning...
...recent acquisition of three collections of playbills, was announced yesterday by Mrs. L. A. Hall, custodian of the theatre collection in Widener Library. The latest addition includes approximately 25,000 playbills from the Kemble-Duke of Devonshire, Henry H. Beaufoy, and Henry Plowman collections...
...city of Cambridge prides itself on its industrial progress, and justly, for while most of New England has been undergoing a serious business slump, Cambridge has seen new and prosperous factories rising within its limits. The latest indication of the city's progress is the painting of a huge sign, in ten-foot letters, on the roof of one of its factories, to signify to the airplane routes of the future that Cambridge lies below...