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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bratiano. Bearded, sleek-vested Rumanian diplomats received the correspondents with reserve, refused to be quoted, uttered however a platitude in which there is much truth: "Gentlemen, now as for many years, the political situation in Rumania is Jon Bratiano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mayor of the Palace | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...nearly always to arise when the students come into intimate association with the professor's moments of research. There the real character of the teacher appears. Things he cares most about are conveyed to the student from his love of scholar ship and his devotion to new-truth. The students catch a glimpse of the divine fire and are themselves inflamed. Yet how rare is the provision in the American college curriculum for such movements. It is, I believe, largely because the students themselves, judging by the superficial qualities of the professor's attitude, remain indifferent to the things about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Trusted by College Presidents Asserts MacCracken | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

...Harlequin, Harry Bingham reaches heights seldom attained by man. To be Thespian, he positively soars. For it is not everyone who can see through the mazes of the commedia dell' arte into the truth at which Gozzi is driving: that comedy is buffoonery, that buffoonery is life...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: "ORANGE COMEDY" SCORES ON HUMOR | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...remained for a son of my own college to take the palms, two Morris chairs, and the family silver. He was more than good: he was better. Although his diction shows contact with chronic dyspepsia, his range is excellent. In truth when he eclipsed high C. I. was ready to compare him with the Romanticists of the Early Pleistocene. Nor does he lack gesture. He should illustrate for Milt Gross. His name? I think it is Sheridan. And like his great namesake he has rivals...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

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