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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: Harmony in Science | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

All esteemed contemporary recently viewed the House Plan at Harvard as meaning nothing more than "added paternalism and increased floor space." There are, no doubt, many who would be pleased to construe the experiment as simply as that, yet the fact remains there are several questions which are uppermost and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

The acts of the stage show are good but the booker made the mistake of engaging three tap dancers on one program and good as they all are the dose is a heavy one. There are one or two comic acts that meet with some success. As for Nan Halperin...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

At China's onetime northern capital Peking (now called "Peiping," meaning "Northern Peace") a total of 39 generals signed a circular telegram to field commanders, last week, denouncing as incompetent their commander-in-chief, Chinese President Chiang Kai-Shek.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 400 Million Humiliations | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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