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...rough village on the road to Nashville in 1788. They have made their characters soft spoken, close shooting gentlemen and trappers. Unfortunately they have included too much of the soft speaking and only two close shooting climaxes. In other words the play is too long, dangerously wordy, and often dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 28, 1925 | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...Wife Who Wasn't Wanted-The tears of Irene Rich must be highly profitable liquid. Again she is playing the mother who splits with her husband. This time because, as District Attorney, he was going to prosecute his own son for manslaughter. Fairly dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 21, 1925 | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Something to Brag About preaches that dull husbands may catch a high polish at any moment. This particular husband comes out of his coma long enough to hold up a neighbor for $1,500. The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 24, 1925 | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Home Maker was another commendable attempt that dealt not wisely but too well with realism. Its detailed drawing of the petty annoyances of business and domestic life become crowded and a trifle dull. The story that these details overwhelmed was one of a business man who hated business and his wife who hated ordering a household. Therefore they changed places and achieved serene success. Alice Joyce is the lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 17, 1925 | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

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