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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cynics rejected so ingenious a theory while recalling Mr. Morrow's major success in calming U. S.-Mexican relations, heretofore embittered over Oil, etc. (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...dual program thus inaugurated by President Obregon was continued with less success by his friend and chosen successor President Plutarco Elias Calles-until Ambassador Morrow loomed pacifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

Henry Irving and it is on record that she detested U. S. playgoers because they seemed generally to prefer the melancholy Booth. She nonetheless toured the U. S. with great success and sometimes sent her greetings to its citizens. Portia was her greatest role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Death of Terry | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world by the share he claims in the success of various businesses. This incrimination was received with applause by the humble and clever advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Admen | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...potential glory of Jane Carroll. She was born in Louisville, Ky., but she came to Manhattan long ago, to play in the Follies. Therefore she is no foreigner to the metropolis and its denizens would be glad to see, to hear about her family & friends. Her recent success in The Vagabond King, as Huguette, caused several interesting facts about her home life to be publicly known. She is a player of chess; her favorite novel is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; she is beautiful but apparently intelligent. Jane Carroll had, whether by inspiration or divine intervention, a severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Roster | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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