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No better, perhaps, at the tricks of their trade than many of their confreres, the prestige of the contemporary Barrymores rests upon one trait which they have in common: a magnificent stage presence which they inherit from their father, the late Maurice Barrymore, who was born Herbert Blythe and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reunion in Hollywood | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Like Peter Arno's Here Goes The Bride, this play is the dramatic venture of a clever satiric artist. Will Cotton (caricatures in Vanity Fair). His play is not so clever, takes a long time to get going, but is pleasantly enough acted by Dorothy Gish and Henry Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

The changing fortunes of popular magazines came to public notice last week when the best-known humorous publication in America was compelled to change from a weekly to a monthly. Thirty years ago, "Life" was a real force in the land. Its pronouncements on matters social and political were widely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SALAAM OF LIFE | 12/1/1931 | See Source »

Undergraduate reactions have been vigorous. Even the comparatively dignified Harvard Crimson (daily) has published satiric verses on the scrub subject. When, last May, the Harvard Square Deal Association gave a benefit "Scrubwomen's Ball" for the Lamont Fund and got two of the women, Mrs. Mary Hogan and Mrs. Annie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harvard v. Scrubwomen | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

"Cake" is a satiric fantasy about the hectic search for happiness in modern life. It deals with a woman whose seven husbands have left her wealth, but who have prevented her from getting the means to gain the experience which she seeks in the far corners of the earth. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO PLAY WITTER BYNNER'S "CAKE" | 11/20/1930 | See Source »

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