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Gorgeous, golden, exotic Mae Murray is the cynosure of all eyes at the Metropolitan this week. It would be otiose not to sing her praises, because some of her charm and personality manages to transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...only endorsed the contest, but have cooperated actively. They have done so because they feel that this is not a scheme to create converts to the Democatic cause, but to broaden the outlook of our young men and young women with regard to principles and policies that far transcend in significance any division along party lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH GOAL IN SIGHT FOR AMBITIOUS ESSAYISTS | 5/24/1927 | See Source »

Even non-Catholics were conscious that the new "Commandments" of Signor Marini transcend in blasphemy any utterance ever ordered to be pronounced in the schools of an avowedly Christian country. Not in all the Soviet Revolution has the like been heard in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Commandments | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...self-defense: she smells of sandalwood still. Her cults her shrines, her potentates, her very homes and villages, are only curious mysteries to Caucasian eyes. Yet theirs are roots before which the Christian faith is a seedling. There is no power in intercourse with the west that can transcend this Oriental inheritance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE OCCIDENTAL VENEER | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Great interest centres in M. Loucheur, the new Finance Minister. If he succeeds in stabilizing the fiscal affairs of France, his prestige will transcend even M. Briand's. At present he is popularly known as France's richest man and greatest economist. His great fortune rests upon a pre-War record of sound financial ability, though vastly increased during the War. He has been Minister of Munitions (1914), Minister of the Liberated Regions (for the devastated French War areas) (1922), and Minister of Commerce (1924). Now he has announced that he will summon a consulting board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: France - New Cabinet | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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