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...Wells read this crude bit of tittle-tattle, he experienced a pang of annoyance which he proceeded to vent by dashing off for the press his own version of his meeting with Mr. Bigelow on the afternoon in question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wells v. Bigelow | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...play is set on a tugboat with Miss Arnold playing the cook's worthy wife. One of the deck hands is a shy, sensitive youth who falls in love with her. She educates him a bit and packs him off to the safety of dry land and a small town. Similarity to the plot of Candida was noted. The young man was played adroitly by Rex Cherryman, newcomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPARTA, ILLINOIS | 1/23/1926 | See Source »

...many a trivial incident should reach the general world in a halo or with horns. At any rate eager reporters--sometimes play fairy godmother to publicity agents. One of these, Harry Reichenbach, has just begun a series of articles of which the first appears in the current "Liberty", a bit gloating in manner, but none the less picturesque...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOAXITY HOAX | 1/20/1926 | See Source »

...Industry in Relation to Westward Migration 1650-1673". But perhaps it would be just as well to stop right here. . . . Oh yes, just a word about "The Red Kimono". It is a sermon by Mrs. Wallace Reid on the life of the streetwalker and its attendant evils. Being a bit irrelevant as far as we were concerned, it didn't get a very vital grip on our interest, except as it distressed whatever feelings we have for art in the movies...

Author: By H. M. H. jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

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