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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Arliss, British actor, complete with dangling monocle, baggy tweeds, traveling tea basket, parrot ("Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Havana, a Mrs. Bernard Duis bought two bright, lively birds whose plumage matched her red hair. When she reached Manhattan by boat last week, the birds no longer matched her hair. Artificially dyed, their feathers had "run," faded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Kentucky is divided into two Episcopalian dioceses. Over Louisville's presides Bishop Charles Edward Woodcock. The bishop of the hill-country diocese of Lexington, who recently resigned, is gentle soft-spoken Lewis William Burton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gold Coast to Blue Grass | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...women went to the tomb on the first Easter Sunday. They were Mary Magdalene, Mary, sister of the Virgin and mother of the cousins of Christ. James and Joses, and Salome.* When they arrived the tomb was open. Mary, mother of James, saw an angel and Mary Magdalene saw two angels and saw and heard her Lord. The last miracle had not failed. The Pharisees soon heard the news they had feared: Christos kai apethane kai anesteh-Christ both died and rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1899th Easter | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Nonetheless Mrs. Smith last week cried to court for blood tests. They were permitted, and the two men, the mother and the child each gave up a few drops of their blood. It was with quite different emotions that the adults learned that all four individuals had exactly the same type, that the point at issue could have no medical proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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