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...remarkably leisurely, tranquil play, with none of the rapid pace and high tension upon which many productions rely for their effect. Coming like an old-fashioned waltz in the midst of a jazz program, it takes a little while to become adjusted and for some may seem slow and dull. But for those who can make the transition, there is beauty and wisdom in store...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Music | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

...tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years with a little architect, James Barcaldine, and his pleasant wife. So tranquil are the Barcaldines that a theatrical impresario cites them as the sort of people who like twinkling artificial entertainment because their own lives are so fatuously real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Prohibition question was injected into the otherwise tranquil conference by a letter from Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the National Law Enforcement Commission to Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York in which Mr. Wickersham proposed an enforcement scheme whereby the U. S. would deal with wholesale bootleggery, the States with the retail trade. He hinted at modification to make the law "reasonably enforceable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: More New Ground | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...room was tranquil. Mona Lisa, she of the moot smile, gazed placidly from the wall. Then, in a trice, a shadow fell and the picture was whisked out of the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Mona | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...looting and making heavy extortions from the populace." There have probably been few cases in history in which war has been so much at the expense of the inhabitants as in the struggles in modern China, and the stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other faction. Out of China should come something of great moment to world history before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TROUBLED WATERS | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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