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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, lord and lady of the Guild's performing group, revel in their duties as unlovely artist, lovely wife. Equally excellent is Dudley Digges as the ancient and Henry Travers (he who was Androcles) as the physician with touched lungs. The play is long- five acts, four chances to smoke and meditate gratefully how good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...reached after three acts of light but languid conversation. Too bad it is the play lags, for the performance is immensely satisfactory. Resplendent in hoops and ruffles, Billie Burke returns to the theatre for the title part. Her acting is eventful, feathery and fine. Reginald Owen and Arthur Byron revel in epigram and rages as the suitors; while one Madge Evans is the daughter. Conveniently for the play she closely resembles the lovely Billie Burke; conveniently, too, for Miss Madge Evans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...Plato is the original nor Harrah's is signs may appreciate the tremendous significance exhibited by snapshots of Cambridge candy kitchens; those who are able to do neither one may find pleasure in admiring the type in which the magazine is set, and everyone can look at if not revel in the Manet-like art which in contained in the present issue. At any rate the fires on Montparnasse are leaping higher since the advent of a Rockwell Kent Hound and a safely modulated Horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HATH DRUNK HIS FILL | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

...delight, but he always succeeds in disgusting the reader. Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra in the passionate embrace of Antony, Cleopatra stroking the "smooth dark, velvety skin" of her black African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige...

Author: By R. A. Stout, | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letter and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

...clock the Harvardians will strike up the first strains of a dance and from that time until 2 o'clock members of the class of 1930 will dance and revel in the only united festivities of their first college year. Instead of the early supper, served in former years from 6 to 7 o'clock, a buffet supper will be served from 11 to 12 o'clock during which entertainment will be furnished by sundry performers from Keith's and also by the Freshman Glee Club and the Freshman Jay Orchestra. Dancing will then continue for two hours after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUBILEE TO MARK CLIMAX OF FRESHMAN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

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