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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the defeated candidate sought revenge, demanded that the Chamber of Deputies lift Parliamentary immunity from incorrigible Senator Maurice, so that he, Paul Hoeffler, could bring suit for gross libel and defamation of character. Sure of spicy details to come, Senators and Deputies angled eagerly for seats on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Senator Maurice | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Far from being the hypersensitive and woeful person she often appears on the stage, Actress Le Gallienne has always been busy and capable as a dynamo. Her parents were Poet Richard Le Gallienne, now of Rowayton, Conn., and the second of his three wives, Julie Norregaard, a Danish-born London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

In the other feature on the bill Clive Brooks gives an amusing and interesting interpretation of Conan Doyle's famous character, Sherlock Holmes.

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

It is Donald Meek, managing to strike new and sensitive attitudes as an old and exhausted character, who gives the play its frequent quality of high comedy. A Scotsman from Glasgow, he has acted since the age of eight, has appeared in such diverse company as that of the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Papa Juan, the centenarian around whom the story revolves, is a fine old man, kindly, good and wise, who has used every year of his age to the fullest and still has as keen an interest in life and as live a brain as any of his three generations of...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: Cinema -:- THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER -:- Music | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

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