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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle writer "his spare rib," almost floats to the wrong bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Standard Oil of New York. President Herbert Lee Pratt of Standard of N. Y., as is his habit in controversy, said nothing. He was waiting, his office announced last week, for the return from Europe of Charles Evans Hughes who advises him on trade relations with the Russian Soviets. Despite this announcement, President Pratt sailed with his family on the Aquitania last week for a holiday on a grouse moor which he has rented in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Controversy: Oil Controversy | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Boy Scouts | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...enclosed clipping is in quite emphatic denial of your item under MILESTONES in TIME, May 16, concerning the marriage of W. Lee Smith, and therefore in keeping with your usual fairness, it should be given as much publicity as what you printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion, The Second Man), Jane Cowl (The Road To Rome), Blanche Yurka (The Squall). Actors honorably mentioned: Walter Huston (The Barker), Frank Wilson (In Abraham's Bosom), Morgan Farley (An American Tragedy), Lee Tracey (Broadway), Holbrook Blinn (The Play's the Thing), E. G. Robinson (Brothers Karamazov, Juarez and Maximilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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