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Yellow is a tantalizing play. After shining with golden radiance through two scenes of masterful tragedy, it suddenly pales into the forced flicker of melodrama. Its unevenness is so extreme that the poor scenes seem doubly deficient, the better ones elusive. However, judged merely as melodrama, Yellow stands well above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

The cast follows: Isaiah H.C. Fox '28 Aaron M.L. Bell '29 Sibyl Helen Chandler High Priest G.K. Bishop '27 Saint Augustine G.G. Ackerson '27 Mary Helen Lewis First Angel Rhodita Edwards Elizabeth Grace Michelman Joseph C.C. Wooley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D.W. Moreland '28 Third King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARCK GIVES REVIEW OF OLD MIRACLE PLAY | 12/17/1925 | See Source »

Certain banks in Eastern U. S. cities have already reached and passed their centennials. Such age as a single century, however, pales into insignificance beside that of the oldest corporation in the world -the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags A. B. This Swedish business stock company, organized in 1225, is this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oldest Stock Company | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Palestine subsequently came under the Byzantine Emperors, was lost once to Persia (c. 611) but regained before Islam, under Calif Omar, ploughed the country under in 637. Then came the period of the Cru- sades and the Prankish Kingdoms (1099-1291), followed by the rule of the Egyptian Mamelukes (1291...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE (British Mandate): In the Promised Land | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

Literature: Amid the serene literary chorus of his day, Howells' steady and somewhat dismal drone occasioned much neck-craning in the audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Realism* | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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