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...Germany, wrote a play called Masse Mensch. German socialists who had seen their "Christs dying on the barricades" greeted the play with awful zeal. It became the talk of Central Europe. It was translated into English by Poet Untermeyer, produced by the Theatre Guild, and struck its American audience dumb and weary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Percy Hammond: "MoonFlower is a bit languid and discursive. It prefers loquacity to action . . . Mr. Blackmer's passions are . . . less dumb than dumbbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 10, 1924 | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

...POTTERS-Vivid flashes of satire striking at the all-American domestic dumb-bell-the husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...Talking Parrot. The captious critics could not say as cruel things about these three acts, called a play, as the poor audience thought. The "talking parrot" is, like the play, dumb as a wooden Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...Sutcliffe, who was for a time secretary to " Dean " Waldo Briggs, of the St. Louis diploma mill, revealed how students were turned out after attending a half dozen classes, with records falsified to show four years of medical instruction. Diplomas were issued wholesale at $250 up. Classes of " dumb-bell " graduates were crammed through the state board examinations in Colorado and Connecticut at so much a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Scandal, Continued | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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