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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aries (rani), Mar. 22 to Apr. 20, governed by Mars. These people are intolerant, impulsive, aggressive, insufferably proud. The women tend to be more passive than the men, and are often free lances. If the Aries man is immoral, it is in a conventional way. But he is honest. Both men and women are subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto...
Gemini (twins), May 22 to June 21, governed by Mercury. "Most Gemini natives try to walk in two directions at once." They work on all manner of subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante...
...lion), July 24 to Aug. 23, governed by the Sun. Lordly, often haughty are Leo people. They excite envy, but seldom seek revenge. They are gluttons for work and like to have the bands playing with them. The spirit of Kiwanis and a tendency to early baldness are theirs. Under this sign were born Benito Mussolini,* Herbert Clark Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Ford, Ethel Barrymore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Napoleon Bonaparte...
...because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
Nowadays, it is often Mr. Galsworthy's method to propound a question without answering it, a method of which the virtues are herein made obvious by contrast. Nonetheless, there are occasional moments when the play achieves the warm pungence of its author's later works; these are often fumbled by the minor members of the cast but never by Isobel Elsom who plays Mrs. Jones or by James Dale who plays her husband with a loud and feline cockney accent...