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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of his speech, he said : "We have unanimously decided that the form of the German State is not to be altered." (Loud, ironical laughter.) Continued the Chancellor: "This matter is really too serious for me to adopt the standpoint of those who laugh about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Gott set Dank | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

QUARANTINE-A thin section of runaway farce in which Helen Hayes, the runaway, is responsible for most of the laughter and most of the patronage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Best Plays: Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Alexander Woollcott - "Refreshed, magnificent, capable of rocking the Winter Garden with an ancient laughter and flooding it with the rue and the tenderness of an ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

Lass O' Laughter. Flora Le Breton, London actress, has arrived in a comedy that is a mixture of Bertha M. Clay* and lemon meringue pie. She starts as a slavey, advances via an inheritance to the lordly Maxwell Towers, marries the glistening young Earl. So oldfashioned, obvious and generally fallible is the piece that there remain only the efforts of Miss Le Breton for discourse. She is called "the Mary Pickford of England." Many cinema potentates were in the initial audience to judge her values. She turned out to be a small and somewhat fluffy blonde, abounding in energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF-Large talk and loud laughter over the young man who talks all the time and succeeds in saying nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

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