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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch, patient once more, "in the first place-" They had been arguing about a newly-published book on Sigmund Freud. Mr. Calisch had genially called psychoanalysis "rot." Neurotic young Emanuel was furious; he took Freud as glorious gospel. After the quarrel, Mr. Calisch, annoyed by his voluble visitor, told the landlady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calisch & Silberstein | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

Married. Russell G. Medcraft, 27, co-author with Norma Mitchell of The Cradle Snatchers; to Jean May (real name Jean Pfeiffer), one-time "leading lady" of The Poor Nut; at Port Chester, N. Y. Accompanied by showfolk, the couple left a Manhattan party at midnight, motored to Port Chester, were married by a coatless, collarless police judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 30, 1926 | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...through' for many a moon." Wills-Browne. The fresh-healed threat in Helen Wills' right side-her appendix scar-softened last week and put her adulators at their ease. Her match in the final of the East Hampton invitation tournament against nut-brown Mary Browne was the first test of her condition since her operation in England, and she passed it with never a quiver. Her old bulletlike serve sang true; her sly placements sped exactly. Mary Browne was buckled down to business, but the two sets took Helen Wills only 45 minutes: 6-3, 6-2. Lenglen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Near Denver, Col., one Meeples Moe, Norwegian -born beet-field worker, captured a baby squirrel four years ago, trained it to indicate by jerking its tail under which of two teacups had been placed a nut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Caged | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...always connected with a production that bears the name of one of them. Kempy was the play in which they collaborated most successfully. In The Trouper Father J. C. Nugent and daughter Ruth Nugent read lines written by Father Nugent and son Elliott Nugent (who is playing The Poor Nut on tour). The play is about show folk and gleaned from the vast accumulation of trouping experience that is Nugent family history. It is not a very good play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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