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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single song hit or clever monologue, he sought to develop a new form of light entertainment which would be a combination of light opera and the now prevailing vaudeville type of revue. Peculiarly this has been the field of drama that the Dramatic Club has exploited in "The Makropoulos Secret," "Paraclete," and "The Orange Comedy." Because of this similarity of endeavor, the club sought to have him explain his experiences along this line. He will talk briefly on his work and then conduct an informal forum to discuss this or any other part of the drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. D. C. TO START SEASON TONIGHT | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatancy & Moderation | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...mystic, intransigeant, impetuous," Dr. Yanguas has stood so firmly on the letter of Spain's international rights that: 1) Spain quit the League of Nations after making politically impossible demands for a Permanent League Council Seat (TIME, March 29, 1926 et seq.); 2) In Paris, last week, a secret Franco-Spanish parley concerning Morocco broke down after prolonged negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Precocious Minister | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Soon rubles, family plate and gems were unearthed and divided at the onetime Dolgorukovo estate near Kursk. Then the Soviet official produced a whistle, blew, summoned agents of the secret police who seized Prince Dolgorukovo. Last week he was executed by order of the Soviet Cabinet in the Lubianka prison, Moscow. Callous, the Soviet executor merely walked into the room where stood Prince Dolgorukovo, drew a revolver, and shot him, without preliminaries, in the back of the head. Soon the corpse of Prince Dolgorukovo was flung into a cart with those of 18 executed criminals, dumped with these into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dolgorukovo | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...before the Ryndam left Rome, the Pope learned something more about circummundane education, which in this instance was coeducation. Editor Allen of the ship's Binnacle unburdened himself of a secret. Taking 100 girls to sea with 400 boys had not been eminently successful, for three reasons which the Associated Press adroitly paraphrased for Editor Allen: "1) The presence of companionable young women distracted the young men from their studies to a disturbing extent. 2) Contiguity of youth of both sexes started many courtships of varying degrees of intensity. 3) Residents in foreign ports at which the ship touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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