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For one who is at all artistically inclined there is perhaps no greater pleasure than that to be gained in the comparison of the works of two artists who have set out to solve more or less the same problem by the use of different mediums. There is at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

To omit further unfair comparison of mediums, the play is powerful on its own plane. Of a moving generality it makes a convincing particular. Actor Glenn Anders as Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Another example of the enigmatic questions which the potential respondent faces is "Were you brought up in a religious home?" Even the most pious will admit that there are religious homes and religious homes, and that what makes them religious constitutes one of the chief causes of the Reformation and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUESTIONNAIRE | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

Talk is and that exact concerning one French writer, hight Balzac, namely: he used to stay up late at night writing pot boilers, immersed in smoke, eclipsed by coffee. Perhaps "La Menage de Garcon" was one of the potboilers. One of the better potboilers. One cannot be sure when he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/7/1926 | See Source »

Harry Houdini appeared as a witness before the House Committee of the District of Columbia, which was holding hearings on a bill to regulate clairvoyants, "mediums," etc., in the District of Columbia. In the back of the room sat several mediums. As a climax to his denunciation of their trickery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mediums | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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