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...Castle Island, Panama, Lighthouse-keeper Hanna navigated a small boat flying the British ensign upside-down (sign of distress). Attacked by tooth and stomach aches, he had deserted his beacon, after swallowing all the medicine therein. The steamer Lilian Luckenbach sighted him, gave him ten pounds of assorted drugs. Thus medicated, Hanna resumed his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Realizing this, the Grand Central Galleries of New York held an exhibition early this summer aboard the Belgenland, showing landscapes, portraits, studies by contemporary U. S. artists (Murray Bewley, Ettore Caser, Gerrit Beneker, Lilian Westcott Hale, Hosvep Pushman, Paul King). Other ships have followed in the wake. The Aquitania became a nautical gallery by bringing to the U. S. Mrs. Dod Proctor's "Morning," the most notable painting in this year's Royal Academy show, for a short visit. The Hamburg-American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Shipboard | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Having already charmed the British, it brings to this civilization "Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing, act, and look handsome all at the same time. With its old fashioned harmonies and duets, Katja stands first in the lists of current operettas, a formidable champion to dispute the supremacy of Sir Jazz in the tournament of musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lottery | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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