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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Maria Jeritza first came to the U. S. one of her great enthusiasms was for Wild West cinemas. In Vienna, Jeritza's home, one of her most successful roles is Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. What more natural, despite the fact that the opera failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wild West | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

He told the tale of a Harvard Freshman, who was asked in an examination: "Who founded St. Petersburg?" The Freshman answered, and President Angell thought perhaps rightly: "St. Peter." To the question, "What lands lie beyond the Jordan?" the Freshman replied, delphically: "It all depends upon which side of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard-Yale | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

In St. Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents-a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: St. Louis Mongooses | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Mostly in measured language he uproots what seem to him some vulgar errors and takes his final stand with such modern mystics as Astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our life in it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atom-Wise Reverence | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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