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Governor Johnston says he doesn't now what he would do without the little woman. The angry politicians, to whom she has refused admittance, reply that they know what they will do with her, and with him too. They mutter that woman's place is not in the home, at least not in that of the Governor. At any event, this struggle of the Praetorian Guards with the senate, despite allegations of the electorial use of intimidation in Chicago, does not signify that the day has come when the superior armed force determines the local government. Bernard Shaw wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FEMININE TOUCH | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...Theatre Guild's most highly paid employes* were weaving spells for gratified Chicago audiences and the first road company? was about to open in Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...wise man will only look more devilish and confine his remarks to the cleverness, good looks, and ability of said Wilson, who is even better this year than in the past two years, which is as much as can be said for any actor. Arnie Horween was heard to mutter that if he only had a quarterback on Soldiers' Field that looked as good as Wilson does on the Pudding Stage, Yale would concede next November's game right now. He shows new clever steps, the same good acting, and he is better than ever before, playing a part which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Headed Queen Features in Eighty-First Annual Pudding Riot--Chorus is Sylph-Like | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

...glowing words she drew a picture of the clubhouse: 1,225 bedrooms, a miniature park enclosed, a garden terrace for tea, fireplaces flanked by soft divans, ballrooms, assembly rooms for musicales and lectures, libraries, laundries, dining-rooms, cafeteria-she completed her towering picture. The envious were free to mutter "ground-grippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Masterful Lady | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...life resident of Sing Sing Prison for a murder, was permitted- handcuffed and accompanied by a guard-to attend the funeral of his brother, James ("One-Eye") Lynch, executed in Trenton, N. J., two days before, for a murder. A sharp-eared (or sentimental) news-gatherer heard Lifer Lynch mutter beside the bier: "It doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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