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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Curtis, may have labored faithfully in the best interests of their country during 20 years and have received in addition to the personal satisfaction of patriotic duty well done, compensation but a fraction of their unavoidable expenses as American representatives, and, fittingly, the wholesome gratitude of archpatriots from Mansfield, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Guild on the Road | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Author is in prison. One dawn last summer, police found him in a daze in front of his home at Mansfield, Conn., with a discharged shotgun in his hands. Within lay one Wilfred Peter Irwin, shot in the back, dying. Both men had been drinking for days. Before the guest died he swore his host was innocent, the shooting an accident. But Leonard Cline must stand trial for murder. Until the plot of that true story is unraveled next month before a grand jury, one of the most promising careers in U. S. literature is in abeyance. Factitious folk have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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