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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play that was written 150 years ago, assuming a capable performance, is pretty much of a fixed quantity, so far as box-office success is concerned. Those whose tastes incline to the classic will patronize it, and not quite succeed in filling all the seats,--everyone else will automatically stay away. This is unfortunate in the case of "The School for Scandal", for as sheer entertainment, all hobbledehoy about art and the higher drama aside, it is probably the best play now showing in Boston. If the theatregoing public would only view it with the same open-mindedness given...

Author: By H. M. H. jr., | Title: COMEDY CRIMSON PLAYGOER CINEMA | 11/18/1925 | See Source »

...French Government announced officially that General Duport was being despatched to Syria to act as High Commander temporarily. Later cables reported the appointment of Senator Henri de Jouvenal to succeed General Duport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Syria | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...averse to a migration towards the District of Columbia. It is true, the reference was very slight, but not in the least slighting; and, no doubt, the speaker again had this individual in mind when he said, "Sometimes it is very disconcerting to find that we Democrats can succeed locally and yet fail nationally." "Disconcerting," to be sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVES TAMMANII | 11/12/1925 | See Source »

Asked whether he thought that the Coast Guard would ever succeed in downing the rum ships, Rear Admiral Billard said: "Napoleon is reported to have said that 'in any military operation, the importance of personnel to material is three to one.' This I believe to be true, not only of operations in war, but also of the present determined fight that is being waged by the government to uphold the law. Any body of men actuated by high traditions and by the ingrained habit of doing their duty under all circumstances, and sustained by high morale, are bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BILLARD BELIEVES RUM RUNNING ON WANE DUE TO ACTIVITIES OF U.S. COAST GUARD | 11/10/1925 | See Source »

...will succeed, because this is our will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Anniversary | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

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