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The nature of the present Parliament foreordains a protracted period of political unrest until another general election comes to act as a panacea.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Labor Rule Coming | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

In the Palace of the King. This slice of the cinema Outline of History takes the spectator for a protracted visit to Spain in the 16th Century. To afford opportunity for a vast and valuable display of costumes, helmets and architecture, a love story with familiar portions of jealousy and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

Every figure in the story of Felix is defined with simple, unerring strokes. No character so much as shoves his nose in that he is not promptly pinned down and held up for inspection. We know them all and like practically all of them- Felix himself, sensitive, delightfully vain, adroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Felix-- | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

"Hunger is the firebrand of revolution. There is no time for protracted debate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: '' Emaciated, Despairing | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

Mme Szumowska played the Chopin concerto with facile technique and sympathetic understanding. Especially poetic was her rendition of the Larghetic. Countless soprani have made us look for a different type of voice in the singer of Haendel to that of Mr. Schwarz. In the aria of Verdi and in "Wotans...

Author: By A. G., | Title: CRIMSON REVIEWS | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

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