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Rakish is Broadway's Betty Compton. She sways in luscious curves about the stage. With a maximum of temptation she ululates the ditties of the Gershwin brothers. Friskily she tapdances. Languidly she intones between-us-girls dialog. People ogle through their binoculars, applaud mightily. Yet in 148 years no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Betty Compton | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

All this Montemezzi has said with music. He stumps the old King on-stage with troubled horns. He sways the lovers with his strings. He tells the anguish of Flora's soul with a single overblown clarinet. He keeps it all ineffably tender and tragic until Flora's death and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

The great vaulted room sways and shivers in the chill light, and the army of tables and chairs, row on row, advances in sinister procession. Bell strikes, two strokes, trembling. Demipest sat down at a table, drew towards him the blue book, fat and loathsome in its emptiness. A completely...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

A figure rises, moves slowly towards the door, sways slightly, impervious to the thunder which rises like a cloud from the floor, trembles in the pendant air. The courage of Smith. Coward! I lack the ordinary manhood to rise and hand in this paper. When I was twelve years old...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

THE LAST POST?Ford Madox Ford? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). The supreme ability of Author Ford, as displayed in all of his previous works, is that of implying the presence of profundities, tragedies, actions which he is presumably unable to state. His prolixity makes a dark and impenetrable screen around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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