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...into audience with the Bey of Tunis, who probably wants, as everyone else does, some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...running-together of scenes in Eva Le Gallienne's production, thus adding greatly to the buoyancy of the presentation. In other people's productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...need of certain tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...

Author: By D. S. Gibbs, | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Shirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

Lady Diana. Chicagoans marveled at the beauty of Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners Duff-Cooper, understood why Britain pets and serves her as its fairest daughter. A slip of a woman in her early thirties, colored in delicate pastel, she sustains the fame of the women of her late father's house of Rutland. In the 18th Century, Mary Isabella, "the beautiful duchess," sat four times to Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, whom Lady Diana is said to resemble most and whose device and motto she uses (a peacock rampant, subscribed Pour y parvenir), bobbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In Chicago | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...Morse, chairman, and Miss Olivia Lowell, D. B. Arnold and Miss Elizabeth Whiting, W. Elliott and Miss Agnes Means, A. D. Weld and Miss Ellen Cutis, R. U. Whitney and Miss Lucy Burgess, M. Wiggin and Miss Eunice Taylor, H. G. Reynolds and Miss Barbara Rice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-SIX BOX GROUPS ASSIGNED FOR ANNUAL JUNIOR DANCE | 2/17/1917 | See Source »

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