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Word: talents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan," he went on to say, "is to have the students who are interested in acting, begin as all of the most famous actors have, by playing in minor parts, until they are experienced enough to assume more difficult roles, then if they show that they have talent enough, the Repertory Theatre is willing to lend them assistance in leading on to a stage success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFERS STUDENTS THESPIAN CAREER | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

...concert of the Instrumental Clubs last evening was too full of high spirits, musical talent, and a rich variety of entertainment to be described in adequate detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICIANS TRIUMPH IN BRATTLE HALL CONCERT | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Persimmons, Etc. | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. It stinks and stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Dead Mackerel | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...LETTER-Katharine Cornell devotes more than enough talent to explain the motives of a murderess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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