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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name suggests the show is supposed to represent, though not too seriously, cafe life. This time it's in Spain and no worse on that account than if it were in Paris. Frequent references to "climbing the stairs to the little room above" keep the moral tone sufficiently low to satisfy those who wouldn't be otherwise satisfied...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

Another important result of the study of the radio reception is to show completely how unfounded is the popular impression that radio reception is universally poor in summer and good in winter. Generally speaking, reception should be better in the winter months on account of the shortened days and decreased daylight. On the other hand, the sunspots and radio curves show that the increased solar activity actually gave much poorer reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ASTRONOMER EXPLAINS RADIO EVIL | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...front door and drove through a police parade to headquarters where he gave himself up. Fannie Brice paid for his defense. Although she owns a monkey, occasionally paints portraits, and likes to ride, she is one of the most original, unaffected, and forceful personalities in the show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Revenge. Dolores Del Rio can stamp her foot, toss her head, show her teeth, snap her fingers in a way that makes you look at her; still more, she can twitch her eyebrow.* Sometimes it is one eyebrow, sometimes the other. Like those lads who, in school, have awed companions by a strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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