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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TWELVE THOUSAND?Why a Prussian Prince did not sell an army to fight for England in the Revolution (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose courage stood the crucible test of 1917 and 1918 followed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL DIAZ | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

Four Sons parades the emotions of Bavarian Mother Bernle who sees three sons goose step to war and death. The fourth and youngest had sailed before the War to the U. S., but he too eventually holds a bayonet. Evil appears in the person of a Prussian, monocled and stooped, mannered and sneering. But Director John Ford sees to it that the boy is safely returned to New York and mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Notables nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Another plate, showing a Prussian Eagle, says that the Hohenzollern Collection, in commemoration of the visit of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia on March 6, 1902, in behalf of His Majesty the German Emperor, was also a result of Professor Coolidge's generosity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/18/1928 | See Source »

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