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...factory worker's son and a militant trade unionist, Dimitroff began making international incidents in the early 1920s. En route to the second Comintern Congress in Moscow, he was picked up in Rumania as a spy, was rescued from liquidation by Russian intervention. In 1923 he led Bulgaria's abortive Communist revolt, barely escaped with his life across the Yugoslav border...
...Deep Mrs. Sykes (by George Kelly; produced by Stanley Gilkey & Barbara Payne) is the first play in nearly a decade by the man who left his imprint on the 1920s with The Torch Bearers, The Show-Off, Craig's Wife. The Deep Mrs. Sykes is not their equal. It is a little too talky, too thin, too pat. But it asserts its theatrical independence at every turn, it makes grown-up assumptions, and the best of it seems written with a rapier rather than...
...Reims Cathedral, one of the hardest hit of World War I and rebuilt with the help of the Rockefellers in the 1920s and '30s, undamaged...
Sinclair Lewis gave the world its classic picture of the American conformist. Whether he was known as Babbitt, Doc Kennicott, Joe Doakes or the great American boob, this monster was terrible, and to escape him (or his wife) the intellectuals of the 1920s fled from Main Street...
...Wonder of the 1920s, lantern-jawed, shiny-haired Jed Harris (now 45) chalked up a record which probably no Broadway producer has equaled since: four successive smash hits (Broadway, Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page) in less than two years. At the age of 28 he had (counting road companies) seven productions on the boards at once, and an income of $40,000 a week...