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That music-what was it? In the dank fastnesses of the jungle along the banks of the Rio Parima, towards whose source the white men were hacking their way,, stirred unearthly strains. "Debbils," groaned the natives. "Station KDKA, Pittsburgh," chortled the expedition's justly proud radio expert, John Swanson. A deep, pontifical voice broke the hot silence. "That," explained the man with the ear phones, "is Judge Elbert H. Gary, of the U. S. Steel Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dark America | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

Miss Louise A. Boyd of San Francisco, Miss Elaine Wilcox of Denver, Mrs. William Grant of Denver, Mrs. George de Benneville Keim of Philadelphia, Mrs. Frank Mebane of Spray, N. C.; Mrs Claude A. Swanson of Washington and Richmond, Va., Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth of Washington and Boston, Mrs. Horace Lee Washington, wife of the Consul General in Liverpool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Court | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

Americana, wherein retiring Gloria Swanson presents her Marquis, and Lillian Gish (leading a Duell life) her George Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 29, 1925 | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

...Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected in the jungle effected the first direct wireless communication between South America and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Brazil | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

Madame Sans Gene. Gloria Swanson, husband and all, is back from Paris with this latest, most expensive picture. It is a classic of the French stage and is played before backgrounds of Fontainebleau and Compiegne loaned specially by the Republic. These backgrounds and the costumes are extraordinary. The story cannot match them nor can the performance of the actress. The usually dependable Miss Swanson overplays the little laundress who rose to be a Duchess. She could not remember not to say "ain't" and got herself in trouble with the Princesses, Napoleon's sisters. A great many francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 27, 1925 | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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