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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Betrayal (Paramount). Rendered ineligible for U. S. talkies by his thick German accent, Emil Jannings left Hollywood last week.* His last U. S. picture, this one about a Swiss burgomeister and his wife, is in some ways his best. The burgomeister has two little sons. He finds out after his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Bulldog Drummond (Samuel Goldwyn). Another all-talking photograph of an old play is kept from being all talk by the intelligent acting of Ronald Colman. What does the bored British officer with the poetic eyes and the little mustache do when the gang catches him? Does he fight his way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Crowds swarmed through massive wrought iron gates eager to see what Primo de Rivera's new Spain had to offer the world; what exhibits had been prepared by Portugal, by the U. S. and nine other American republics whose relations with Spain the Ibero-American Exposition was meant to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Seville Exposition | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Seville Exposition | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

What could be fairer than that? Legislators all over the world are always ready to write enthusiastic platitudes in favor of anything that sounds like a good cause. The wronged Poldavians seemed a very good cause. Each of the 28 deputies sat down at his desk and pledged his moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Poldavia's Lamidaeff | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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