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Besides the oldtimers of the Canal Zone, many a Russian might recognize Mr. Stevens should he revisit Siberia. He was president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Father | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

THE MAN WHO CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Men Like Gods | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

In Mount Prospect, 111., one Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

The Habima Players of Moscow offer the same play in Hebrew. Their production is notable for its frank theatricality. Not the slightest regard is paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Ludwig Tieck has described the work of Euripides as the dawn of a romantic poetry haunted by dim yearnings and forebodings. To a large extent this saying is true; with Euripides a change had begun in the culture and spiritual life of Athens.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

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