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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Condemned (Goldwyn). There is hardly a scene in this that is not well photographed and Ronald Coleman and Ann Harding act as well as you would expect. Unfortunately, the charm that the director has taken such pains to put into Condemned is wasted because it is inappropriate. Proper picturization of the grim penal colony on Devil's Island* calls for another quality than charm. This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism. Best shot: Louis Wolheim, the toughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreel Theatre | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition to authorized sales agents if. as the Kansas City advertisement said, there was "opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at nominal cost." The publishers' first protest was made in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Assistant Postmaster-General Coleman replied that the Department meant no harm to publishers, would watch carefully for any encroachment by the auctions on private business. The auctions continued on alternate Wednesdays through October, with publishers still vexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...chairman of Table One, which will discuss "Vocational Adjustment", is G. W. Coleman, President of the Babson Institute, Wellesley. Professor H. S. Elliott of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will be chairman of Table Two, which is to discuss "Misrepresentation of Religious Beliefs and Practices." Professor J. J. Mahoney of the Department of Education, Boston University, is to be chairman of Table Three, which will discuss "Community Conflict and Cooperation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTED CLERGY TO ATTEND ROUND TABLE GATHERING | 11/7/1929 | See Source »

...starting out life instead of ending it. O. A. COLEMAN The Georgia Loan and Trust Co. Macon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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