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THE HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anemia | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Selfridge's (London department store) last week formally opened a new department where Britishers might buy for $32, and as casually as they buy hardware, the wherewithal to put together a television receiving set. Shaggy-haired John L. Baird, inventor of the apparatus, was there; promised to broadcast television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radioptics | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

She had found successes before: when she published her first novel, Dancers in the Dark (in 1922); when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Christmas | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

One of Mr. Ringling's agents prevailed upon her to travel with the circus and to pose as "the ugliest woman in the world" as a means of livelihood. Mr. Ringling is kind to his people and she is well cared for. But she suffers from intolerable headaches, has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

My shirts, and wherewithal and collars

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

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