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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Lunt, as the drunken youth, carries the burden of the leading part with extraordinary comprehension and performance. Beryl Mercer (lately Queen Victoria) adds another memorable portrait to her stage gallery as the charwoman. Lionel Watts, Leslie Howard, and Margalo Gillmore lend competence that edges upon distinction to the clergyman and the lovers. The Examiner is Dudley Digges (Adding Machine man). The New Poor. The immigration Russian royalty to our shores is deftly satirized in this latest inscription for the stage from the pen of the socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 21, 1924 | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...Constitution of Great Britain is universally acknowledged as the acme of empiricism. So recent as 1894 Queen Victoria accepted Gladstone's resignation without asking him for his advice. It follows then, there being no law against it, that the Sovereign need not be bound to ask for advice and may order a dissolution of Parliament without consulting anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Political Dialectics | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Neighbors. After injecting a vigorous stimulant into the flagging hopes of their numerous supporters with a wholly admirable production of Queen Victoria (TIME, Nov. 26), the Equity Players resorted to this discouraging domestic farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 7, 1924 | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...QUEEN VICTORIA-An indication that small portions of the populace still yearn for sweetness and light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

Died. Sir Frederick Treves, 70, Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in the last year of her life, at Lausanne, Switzerland, of peritonitis. In 1902, he operated on King Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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