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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Scott, when he slept there for a night, fancied that ghosts came eerily to mock at him; but Elizabeth Duchess of York has explicitly scoffed at all such "stuff and nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Bestowal | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Fred Penn, Omaha fisticuffer, gave one day last week half a pint of his own blood to save his mother's life in a transfusion operation. That same night, Fred Penn stepped into a prize ring, knocked down Fisticuffer Clarence Berger four times, won the bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Marion, Ill., Catholics, ever fraternal, were drawn closer to each other one day last week. "Did you hear what happened last night?" they asked each other. Some person or persons-the police could not say who-had set a bomb on the basement steps of the church. It went off, ripped the basement steps, shattered windows, scattered suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecclesiastical Notes: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Patriot (Emil Jannings): a crazy Tsar trusts Lewis Stone. Lonesome (Glenn Tryon): Two bathhouse keys clink on the beach. The Docks of New York (George Bancroft): Night-life of a stoker. The Night Watch (Billie Dove): Murder on a French battleship told in retakes from the trial. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Eight mammy-songs. The Air Circus: Planes on the Vitaphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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