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Moana. A sort of travelog without a story, telling of life as it is really lived in the South Seas, not omitting the pains of becoming beautifully tattooed, or the little maid who scoops small fishes out of the sea and eats them while she chatters. Robert J. Flaherty, who did Nanook of the North, is the director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl he loved and the girl's mother, who did not think they were old enough to get married. Maude Eburne, the low comedy maid, is the funniest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 8, 1926 | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

Bobby Jollyco, Sally Jollyco, Tee-wee Jollyco (the baby), and Julia (the maid) were all "sold" on Ivory and helped to sell others. All were treated with ingenious ingenuousness as real characters with continuous histories, the copy being so well written that the Jollyco doings read like bits of Dickens or Thackeray, with Ivory Soap mentioned quite casually. The public became so interested that thousands of letters poured in: "Send Bobby Jollyco to boarding school. . . . Have Teewee make mud pies. . . . When can Sally Jollyco go to dancing school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jollycos | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...then this quiet old man was showered with glory . . . the credit for four-fifths of which, at least, belonged to Ludendorff. . . . In every heart, on every tongue, there was but one name, Hindenburg. . . . Every maid in the most distant forester's lodge knew that head, which the people call 'a majestic brow of thunder,' and the Kaiser, in his jealous rage, termed 'a sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Harden's Contemporaries | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Thayer Hall--1 to 3, 12 to 16, 18 The Maid's Tragedy; 4, Ezra P. Dillworthy; 5, 6, 8, The Sextet from Lucia (applied as group of six); 9, Pour lo Sport; 10, 11, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; 17, The Divine Duo; 19, The Poor Nuts; 20, K. K. Rockne; 21, Anthony and Cleopatra; 22, Mama's Boys; 23 to 26, Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 378 MEN WIN OUT IN DRAW FOR YARD | 1/16/1926 | See Source »

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