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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not. He is happy in the happiness of the lovers. But by this time the audience has been prepared for his magnanimity by seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler. A small, piquant brunette named Sylvia Sidney makes the wisecracking Elizabeth thoroughly fresh and annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ascension Bumps | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Death should come soon and suddenly to three men-George V. Edward of Wales, the Duke of York-England would have another Virgin Queen Elizabeth. Last week, romping in a yellow frock, the Princess Elizabeth passed her third birthday. She does not know that she is but three removes from the Throne; in fact she has only very recently discovered that she is a "P'incess." It is barely a fortnight ago that she knocked with chubby fist upon a door, and when her mother called "Who's there?" answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: P'incess Is Three | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...asked 56 questions of 500 ministers, 200 theological students. Some of the questions: DO YOU BELIEVE that God exists? [Only on this question did all agree.] That the devil exists as an actual being? That hell exists as an actual place or location? , That Jesus was born of a virgin without a human father? That Jesus lived a life wholly blameless and without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will be one final day of judgment for all who have lived upon earth? Answering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What is Believed | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...American collection owned by the Fogg Museum has been reinstalled in Gallery XVI. In the Great Hall there appear three sixteenth century Flemish tapestries representing the "Glory of the Virgin" which have been lent to the Museum by Mr. Felix Warburg of New York City, and a fourth tapestry which is believed to be from the same series but which has been lent anonymously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/25/1929 | See Source »

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