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In his plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful...

Author: By R. B. Gowing, | Title: IMMORTAL LONGINGS. By Ben Ames Williams. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Stoking coal on an ocean steamship has commonly been regarded as one of the least attractive of all occupations--the sword that hangs over the head of stowa ways who are caught, the last resort of those who are bent on working their way to Europe by any means. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OIL-BURNERS ARE BEST | 5/12/1927 | See Source »

The gospal was never so charming. Other lady evengelists-older, less naive, more obviously theatrical-have argued the good cause before; they too have been moved to frensy before crowds which came for prayer and remained to discuss a personality. But none has so firmly established her message. Not without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILGRIMS' PROGRESS | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

But gossip, tales of little doings of important and unimportant people, is always half the news. In the small towns on the boarding house porches of lesser Broadways, rocking-chairs squeak out a dissonant and complaining chorus, thin-lipped ladies swell like croaking frogs into the temporary importance of unofficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trivia | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Earth. The second production by the young insurgents (TIME, March 14) at the 52nd Street Theatre is more conventional in stage mechanics, though thoroughly "arty" in its choice of subject-the Southern U. S. Negro. Author Em Jo Basshe is by birth Russian, which is merely incidental to the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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