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...Constant Wife???Ethel Barrymore in sophisticated comedy on love outside wedlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution. One day, he was given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife???Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with his ragged army. In less than a year the Austrians were thrashed, Northern Italy was conquered, the Alps snickered no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...Constant Wife???The double standard gives way to double sin, with Ethel Barrymore to make it attractive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...CRAIG'S WIFE???Prize play about a woman who dusted out her house so steadily that her husband choked and disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Plays: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...CRAIG'S WIFE???About a woman who had less respect for her husband than she had for specks of dust on her polished floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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