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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: ... I have always enjoyed TIME'S sense of humor and can smile when the joke is on me. Perhaps mine was a "woeful tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...leading role is taken by Miss. Helen Streeter, tells the story of two suitors, both of whom are in love with the same lady. The resulting complications furnish an amusing one act comedy. "Poil de Carrotte," in which Miss Kathleen Shaw plays the title role, is a domestic tale of a child who is not understood by his mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE PRESENTS PLAYS AT FINE ARTS THEATRE | 12/4/1929 | See Source »

...Luxembourg Gardens and sell the rides herself. When she was 14 she copied out the entire memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt in longhand, an act of adolescent devotion which may have helped form her whole character and to which the great stage lady was not insensible. Debunkers have labelled this tale a myth but Actress Le Gallienne still has her copybooks, inscribed by Bernhardt, to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Other Men's Wives. Elaborate and stupid tale of a French wayside inn with Claiborne Foster, orthodox detectives, lingerie, disguises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...series of 138 woodcuts, of which every picture helps to tell the story, the allegory of an artist's life is unfolded. The pictures are obvious enough, and placed in such obvious sequence that even a novel-browser may read both tale and fable aright. The artist comes to a strange land, gets into difficulties from which he is rescued by a mysterious masked figure. End of Part I. The artist comes to a city, paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novel Without Words | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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