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Walter Woolf's buoyant masculinity and swordplay carry the show through a somehow familiar tavern scene. After that "The Red Robe" could run along on the magnificent staging of its seventeenth century interiors,s in which Watson Barratt has secured blendings of scenery and costume second only to those in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Fritz Williams, 63, beloved actor who recently played in Rain; to be Shepherd of the Lambs, famed Manhattan theatrical club. Actor Williams headed an independent ticket, defeated wobbly-legged Leon Errol. regular candidate, succeeded the late venerable Thomas A. Wise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

"It really is odd, this one-legged campaign. There is but a single figure [Smith] in it. You may hate him or you may love him, but it is because of Smith that you vote at all. A few thousands will vote for Hoover. Millions will vote against Smith. Millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Abstraction | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

The shoebill heron injured at the Bronx Zoo is one of the most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zoo Vandals | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Marathon. Won by El Ouafi of France, 2 hr., 32 min., 57 sec. This, the blue ribbon event of the Olympics is a race of 26 miles, 385 yards. El Ouafi is a spindle-legged, narrow-chested Algerian. He ran despatches for the French Government during the World War, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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