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The first event of the last series of pageants consisted in "pleasing" the sun goddess Amatersu Omikami (divine ancestress of the Emperor) by playing to her primeval and mystic music which lasted through the night. Then with elaborate ceremony the Son of Heaven offered boiled rice and strong drink to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Showa | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

The radio public will be given an advance taste tonight of that forth-coming production when two scenes from this colorful comedy of Mexican life will be broadcast from station WBZ from 8.30 to 9 o'clock. At the same time it was announced that a pleasing addition has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB GIVES ANNUAL MIRACLE PLAY | 12/8/1928 | See Source »

Due to the behavior of the mule and the inefficiency of scene-shifters, the opening of Rainbow was a long affair, and not so auspicious as it should have been. The story, which had an epic air, concerned a buckskin buccaneer who broke jail and joined the California gold rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

One finds it pleasing, then, to discover Harvard's own representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR ABROAD | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

Bebe Daniels, the feminine funner is on view this week at the Keith-Albee Memorial Theatre in "Take Me Home." A comedy of the chorus girl and the yokel boy-friend, this picture manages to be quite funny in spots, and at least has the pleasing feature of being constantly...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

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