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...love of woman versus the love of art. Having chosen the latter and abandoned Irene, the sculptor discovers that, in killing his love, he has also killed his art. None the less these disastrous lovers are in the end reunited, and in death they are not divided. The mute nun murmers her "pax" over their falling bodies, and one seems to hear a voice out of the cloud in the great closing line from one of the earlier plays: "He is a God of Love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile, but until a few years ago he was a deaf mute. Even now it is a little difficult to follow his conversation. Early last week Don Jaime said something which was interpreted to mean that he was going off on "a little automobile trip." At the last moment the family discovered that what he really intended to do was rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Little Trip | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...beads, she had set out a few days earlier for a dance at Fort Apache. It was known that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know anything about the Schmerler case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Being an Indian . . | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...every one congregated there for a demi-taste which one is served there (courtesy of the Corporation) after lunch and dinner. We liked the way the morning papers are stacked at the entrance of the hall, with no more urgent a spur to the conscience than a mute, coin-filled plate on guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystic Dandruff | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

Alfonso's third move was to let it be known?unofficially?that he would give up his own rights to the throne, not in favor of his easy bleeding firstborn, the Prince of the Asturias, nor in favor of his deaf-mute second son Don Jaime, but in favor of his third son, 17-year-old Don Juan Carlos, a cadet last week in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devonshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pocketless Don Juan | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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